Imagination's End: Empires of the Mind

by Chris Stanchek

Born with the god-like ability to transform reality in any way he wants, 18-year-old Nathan Skyler has made his every adolescent dream come true. He's got the girl of his dreams, he just helped his high school football team win another state championship, his peers adore him, and his family loves him. Nathan's life is, for lack of a better word, perfect. But he would know. He made it that way.

But perfection has its price. Nathan's powers unwittingly open the door to Imagination's End, a mirror image of Earth ruled by seven powerful emperors and unburdened by the laws of reality.

With the door open, Nathan finds his idyllic life shattered at the hands of two vicious inter-dimensional bounty hunters, and he has to journey into Imagination's End to save those he loves. But, as his quest unfolds, Nathan finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into a conflict of nations, a clash of emperors. To save his friends, he must cast aside his own selfishness and embrace his destiny as a hero, a decision that will lead him into a confrontation with the Emperor of Fear himself and the epic, terrifying truth about his amazing powers.

253 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 5, 2012

Reviews

[Joelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pistol-whipped plot and genuine, adolescent dialogue mark this book's excellence. The plot moves faster than The Hunger Games and the characters are fleshed out with dimension and purpose.