Quests of Shadowind: Sky Shifter
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Publisher Description
Abducted...to an Alien World!
Logan and Mindy Oakes wake up to discover everything has changed. Wrong beds, wrong clothes, wrong house. And, worst of all, their parents are missing. When they go outside, they run into a friend whose parents are also gone. In fact, all the grownups in town have inexplicably vanished. Then along comes a spider a giant, monstrous, mechanical horror.
And that s the least of the nightmares that will befall the brother and sister in Shadowind, a dangerous, otherworldly dimension inhabited by ghostly creatures, cyborg animals and virtual humans a land where anything is possible, including being downloaded into a cryptic, evil role-playing game.
In order to survive, Logan and Mindy band together with other kids determined to find a way back to the life they knew and loved. Ultimately they must battle the sinister cyber-lord for the Staff of the Sky Shifter, a powerful weapon that could destroy the universe...but might also be the key to getting back home.
Editorial Reviews:
"This well-written tale combines two imaginary worlds popular with younger readers fantasy and computer games...An imaginative, fun adventure that s just the beginning of a new amalgamated mythology." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Many surprises...numerous puzzles...many action sequences...suspenseful." -- Publishers Weekly
"The will to survive must win through the day. Quests of Shadowind is a novel following Logan and Mindy who face everything the strange world of Shadowind throws at them. Uniting with other kids trapped in this strange and cruel dimension, they are unsure of what they will have to face next, because the rule of reality doesn t even seem to be the in play. Quests of Shadowind is a riveting work of fantasy, very much recommended." -- Midwest Book Review
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Miller's complex novel, first in a planned eight-book series, 15-year-old Logan Oakes and his younger sister, Mindy, awaken one morning to many surprises: they are in someone else's house (and pajamas), the world's adults have vanished, and giant mechanical insects, "anibots," appear and kidnap their older friend Preston. When the siblings discover that they can enter a virtual world through the computer, they work together to solve numerous puzzles, in hopes of acquiring the Staff of the Sky Shifter before the evil Lord Torrent and his Spirit Beast computer virus (or local bully Kyle) find it and destroy both worlds. While Miller's many action sequences are suspenseful, the premise is complicated and the characters undeveloped. The plot branches out into too many story lines, the narrative hopping between players on all sides, with plodding and explanatory prose (" would get what he wanted by ridding himself of the meddlesome, goody-two-shoes Logan and by manipulating a computer program and then governing Kyle"), and the story often loses its focus and steam. Ages 12-up.
