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Brian Edmonds brianedmonds — I liked the interweaving of stories, of Bessie and Glen's journey, of Bessie's past, and Reith's attempt to find them. I like that Michaels has taken the bare bones of history and made a novel out of them. But her style is too languid, too literary, maybe, for my liking. The descriptions are lovely, but they feel more like pastel paintings on a wall rather than the visceral Colorado River. The characters likewise seem like people in a book, not people whose blood pounds and whose breath catches in their throats as a huge wave threatens to swamp their boat.

Urmuz Tagizade urmuz — Originally Reviewed on The Book Smugglers: http://thebooksmugglers.com/2011/08/t... At twelve years old, Mack is a pretty ordinary kid leading a pretty ordinary life. He does an average job at school, he has a few friends, a pair of decent (if constantly distracted) parents, and manages to avoid sticking out in almost every way. Except there is something decidedly un-ordinary about Mack, even though he doesn’t quite know it. You see, Mack has a list of phobias – from sharks (galeophobia) to a fear of phobias (phobophobia). But while Mack has an irrational, consuming fear of dentists and the ocean, he doesn’t fear things that most rational people should…like bullies. So, when Mack gets into a tussle at school with not only the geek bullies, but ALL of the Richard Gere Middle School bullies (there are different bullies for each type of clique, of course). Things look pretty grim when the Biggest (really) Baddest Bully, a fifteen year old named Stefan, gets his (somewhat slow but very deadly) sights set on Mack – but when Stefan is gravely injured and Mack saves his life (twice!), Stefan takes Mack under his wing. As it turns out, Mack is one of the Magnificent 12, who posses the “enlightened puissance” and, thanks to the warnings and help from an ancient (if weird) dude named Grimluk, Mack has a mission to find the remaining magnificent 11 and save the world from the clutches of the evil Pale Queen – with the help of Stefan, of course. The Magnificent 12: The Call kicks off a new middle grade series by Michael Grant, introducing young readers to a sympathetic and accessible protagonist and a world that is both familiar and wondrously strange, with an evil queen, insect-like monsters, an inadvertently hilarious golem, and, of course, magic and danger. While the ordinary-kid-becomes-the-world’s-only-hope trope is infinitely familiar and omnipresent in the YA and MG categories, The Call distinguishes itself from the fray because of its sense of humor. The jokes range from charmingly silly (ex: “Grimluk was twelve years old. Like most twelve year-olds he had a job, a child, two wives and a cow. No. No, wait, that’s not true. He had one wife and two cows.”) to slapstickish fun, and, while they may not be to the taste of older readers, certainly should appeal to tweens and middle grade level readers. The novel itself alternates two main storylines – one in the present, with Mack as he embarks on his adventure to find his fellow allies of the Magnifica, and one in the past, with a twelve year old Grimluk and his stand against the Pale Queen many, many hundreds of years earlier. While Grimulk’s story is fraught with peril and hilarity (being a twelve year old with a job, wife, new baby, and already a lack of teeth due to his advanced age), I felt like the frequent jumping back in time to Grimulk’s past was a bit frustrating, as I cared infinitely more for young Mack and Stefan. My only other main criticism with this novel, and the series at large is that though the action abounds and this is a quick, entertaining read, The Call lacks the heart and deeper meaning that characterize the best novels – including those for young readers (Catherynne M. Valente’s incomparable The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship of Her Own Making immediately springs to mind, as does the more lighthearted but very smart Aliens on Vacation by Clete Smith). That said, The Call is a fast-paced, fun read and will most certainly appeal to its target audience.

Michael Campbell mbc0502f260 — I cheated. I listened to the audio book.