Title: Pendragon Before the War
Author: D.J. MacHale
Series: Pendragon Mini Series (Book 2)
Genre: Young Adult
Book 2 follows three more Travelers: Aja, Alder and Elli. It was a really quick read and I enjoyed all of the stories in this grouping.
Aja, the Traveler of Veelox, is the first story. Veelox is an interesting world, they have something called Lifelight. It is something that in my mind makes me think programable dreams. You can pick a game, or simulation and it's like you are really there living it out. I think it sounds like fun :) Aja's conflict is that someone is trying to hurt people using Lifelight and she needs to stop them by playing a dangerous game.
Elli, comes from Quillan. Quillan is a territory that is run by a company called Blok. It has gambling that can end in gambling your life against your debts and there are also people who play the "games." Blok is very controlling, creating a very unoriginal territory where everyone wears gray and has little individual thoughts. There is also a group of people who are rebelling against this in their own way (of course) by collecting old, forbidden things from how the territory use to be. Elli accidentally stumbles across these rebels and earns their trust through keeping their hideouts clean. Eventually she become a very valuable piece in the search for relics.
Alder, Traveler from Denduron, wants to be a knight. Problem is, he's an orphan and it costs a lot to train. He is told if he works to pay his way he then can train. However, he is taken advantage of and is never given the opportunity to train, only to serve people. Then one day an odd old man comes to Denduron and will train him, really train him, for free. Of course Alder takes him up on it and ends up learning many valuable lessons and becomes a better knight then anyone who trained in the academy.
I'm anxiously awaiting the next trio, it is already released (actually just last week), I just need to get it from the library. I am most excited about Loor's story!
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