Morpheus Road, Book 2
Written by D. J. MacHale
Aladdin, 2011
$17.99, ages 12 and up, 416 pages
A murderous spirit will stop at nothing to find a medieval battle-ax and wreak havoc on the Light, the land of the living, in this thrill-ride-of-a-book, the second in the popular Morpheus Road trilogy.
In this clever followup, author D. J. MacHale replays the events of the first book through the eyes of Marshall Seaver's dead friend Cooper Foley and reveals how those events were shaped from the Black, a weigh station for the dead on their final journey to the hereafter.
Cooper, who drowned in the first book The Light, arrives in the Black to discover he's entered a place of redemption, where dead people can make amends for mistakes they made in life. Whether they choose to better themselves determines whether they get to move on or they're condemned to oblivion.
There, he discovers that he can return to visions of his home as he remembers it, but no one who is still alive will be there with him, only those who are dead. He sees Gramps, his late grandfather, who has his own troubles to work through, and quickly discovers tensions brewing in the Black.
While still alive, teenage Cooper had often found himself in "TroubleTown," as he called it; just before he died, he was accused of selling counterfeit Yankee tickets. Yet he'd always managed to talk his way out. That is, until trouble hit him head-on, a speedboat plowed into his skiff on Thistledown Lake.
Now he's dead and his troubles are like nothing he imagined: in the Black he runs into Damon of Epirus, the demon who set him up to be killed, and he finds himself in the middle of a border war between the world of the Light and Black that could annihilate the living world.
Damon, a sadistic general from ancient Rome, is trying to use Cooper to get back to the living world and exact revenge for being sent to the Black. He's threatened to kill Marsh unless Cooper goes into the Light and
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By D.J. MacHale
Simon & Schuster, 2010
$17.99, ages 10 and up, 352 pages
Marshall Seaver is being chased by a ghoul from his imagination and unless he can find his missing buddy Cooper, he may be forced on a journey no living being should ever take.
In this heart-pounding thriller by the author of the Pendragon series,16-year-old "Marsh" discovers his sketch of a gravedigger has come to life and wants him dead, and already may have done something sinister to best friend Cooper.
Marsh's only chance to save himself and Cooper is to convince Cooper's snippy sister Sydney to help him on a dangerous search for Cooper around her family's lakeside home, as forces of good and evil converge in this first book of a trilogy.
The nightmare all started as school let out for the summer. Marsh was looking forward to hanging out with Cooper, but then a series of unfortunate decisions he and others made shattered his plans and catapulted him into a week-long ghost story.
First Marsh had a row with Cooper, who was starting to hang out with a bad crowd and seemed to be growing up without him. Cooper had always been a wild guy, but now he was getting into serious trouble. He'd just been caught by police for scalping tickets and Sydney's boyfriend, a bully around school, seemed to have it in for him.
Then Marsh and his dad got into an argument. His dad was worried Marsh was becoming too much of a loner, and Marsh didn't want to hear it. He liked the way he was and stormed up to his bedroom. Looking for an outlet for his anger, he smashed a golden orb given to him by his late mother. As the orb broke open, blood splattered everywhere.
Or did it? Before Marsh could show the mess to his dad, it vanished as if it never happened.
Marsh assumed he must have imagined the blood. After all things don't just disappear. Maybe his mind was playing tricks on him because he was feeling guilty about ruining something of mom's. He'd not only broken the orb but when he threw it, he shattered the glass on a framed photograph his mom took just before she died. In the photograph was a temple she died inside when an earthquake hit.
But soon things get too creepy to ignore. When Marsh's dad goes out of town to Las Vegas on a business trip
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