For a plot, he dishes up a nonstop barrage of situational pickles for his increasingly desperate protagonists.Ī droll and clever opener likely to leave readers breathless both with laughter and anticipation. Riley concocts a tasty mix of familiar tropes and truly inventive twists for his Gnomenfoot scenario plus a set of broadly rendered scene stealers for a supporting cast. Meanwhile, Bethany is left on this side of the printed page to somehow prevent the Magister, enraged by the revelation that he's fictional, from freeing all made-up people and creatures and exiling their creators into a storybook to see how they like having no free will. Crises snowball as Owen finds himself caught in a climactic battle between Magic and Science in the yet-to-be-published seventh volume. Owen tags along to do the unthinkable: change the plot by saving the Dumbledore-ish Magister from death at the hands of mad scientist and archvillain Dr. When classmate Owen sees her materializing out of a copy of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, she unwillingly acquires a gobsmacked ally who persuades her to pick up a finding spell from the cliffhanger scene at the end of Volume 6 in his adored Kiel Gnomenfoot series. It all comes back to Bethany’s own secret origins.The fourth wall suffers major breaches as young characters from a popular fantasy series and the " real real world" join forces to battle threats in both.īorn of a real mother and a fictional dad, Bethany has been searching for her father ever since he disappeared into a book on her fourth birthday. The one hero who might have stopped all of this, Doc Twilight, has been imprisoned by the Dark.īut who is Doc Twilight really? And how can Bethany and Owen defeat the Dark without superpowers of their own? They’ll definitely need the help of some old friends and new allies to bring the light back to Jupiter City, and find out the truth behind the Dark. Even the villains are terrified of the Dark’s shadows, and most of the heroes have either disappeared or been lost to mind control. Jupiter City was once filled with brightly costumed superheroes and villains, but nowadays, there’s nothing left but the Dark. But they didn’t make any promises about not jumping through strange portals that lead to a comic book world.
Owen and Bethany have sworn off jumping into books for good. Bethany travels to a new fictional world to rescue her father in this third book in the New York Times bestselling series, Story Thieves -which was called a “fast-paced, action-packed tale” by School Library Journal-from the author of the Half Upon a Time trilogy.
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