Quillan Games

Title: Quillan Games
Author: D.J. MacHale
Series: Pendragon (Book 7)
Genre: Young Adult



Bobby has received an "invitation" to come to Quillan. Quillan is a territory where Blok rules. They own everything, including some of the people. There is no competition, everything is Blok. The one store that sells food is simply entitled, "Food" because there is only the one store. Same with "Drink" and anything else that you may want to buy. Everything is grey, and there is no freedom of expression. No music, no paintings, no individuality. Quillan is a pretty grim place.

One thing that does get the inhabitants excited are the games. They wager for food, shelter, and even their lives. Of course when they loose it can mean things as bad as death, or essentially getting a life back.

Bobby somehow finds himself to be a Challenger. One of the select few who compete in the games. It sounds like an honor, and it almost is, except that this honor usually ends in death. The games are deadly, and you loose eventually because you are basically a prisoner.

The Traveler of this territory is Nevva Winters, who is a secretary of sorts to the trustees of Blok. She is also part of a revolution against them with a main component being Bobby.

Saint Dane makes another brief interference, but I feel like he isn't as prevalent in this story. Don't mistake that to mean that he's not manipulating and trying to take down the territory, this time it is just a little more subtle.

Although I love the Pendragon series as a whole, this is not one of my favorite books. For some reason it reminds me of Harry Potter 4, which could be because of the games. I didn't care for HP4, and Quillan Games falls in a similar ho hum category. Overall the story is good, but something about it just doesn't spark me the way the rest of the books in the series do.