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The Wormling #5
The Author's Blood
“Nothing special” is the best way to describe Owen Reeder―at least that's what he's been told all his life. When a stranger visits his father's bookstore, Owen's ordinary life spirals out of control and right into a world he didn't even know existed. Owen believes the only gift he possesses is his ability to devour books, but he is about to be forced into a battle that will affect two his and the unknown world of the Lowlands. Don't miss the exciting conclusion to the Wormling series (Book 5, The Author's Blood ).
368 pages, Paperback
First published January 10, 2008
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Jerry B. Jenkins
672 books1,730 followersJerry Bruce Jenkins is an American novelist and biographer. He is best known as the writer of the Left Behind series of books for Tim LaHaye and The Chosen novels to accompany his son Dallas's TV series. Jenkins has written more than 200 books, including mysteries, historical fiction, biblical fiction, cop thrillers, international spy thrillers, and children's adventures, as well as nonfiction. His works usually feature Christians as protagonists. In 2005, Jenkins and LaHaye ranked 9th in Amazon.com's 10th Anniversary list of Hall of Fame authors based on books sold at Amazon.com during its first 10 years. Jenkins now teaches writers to become authors here at his website. He and his wife Dianna have three sons and eight grandchildren.
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April 20, 2024
Read this series because it was one of Justin’s favs as a kid. Cute kid series. Chronicles of Narnia vibes. Would read to my kids one day :)
March 30, 2024
Great series to read with the intended audience. Ton of allegories and contrasts between good/evil, God’s word and his sovereignty. Provoked my imagination, no doubt! Definitely a read out loud series that I’d look forward to reading with my kids as they got older.
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November 11, 2021
The only problem I had with this book is that it ended! I wish it could have gone forever!!!
August 26, 2019
My name is Owen Reeder, but the people of the Lowlands know me as the Wormling. However, few of them know I'm also the King's Son. The Dragon's armies have wiped out the forces opposing him, and he's enslaved most of the remaining villagers. They find it difficult to hold out hope after their families have been slain, but we must trust the King's words. I had to leave my sister and my future bride in the Highlands, and I pray they are safe from the Dragon's time minions. I'm willing to sacrifice myself to save my family and the entire kingdom, but I have faith in my father. The Book of the King says the Dragon will be defeated, and those loyal to the King will celebrate and rejoice.
This book concluded the series, and I've enjoyed the journey. The entire series was told from a second person point of view, which was a bit uncommon. This strategy allowed the narrator to speak directly to readers and draw them into the book. A devastating tragedy at the end of the fourth book carried over to this one, and I was left wondering how the authors would resolve it. Owen kept telling other characters to have faith, so I was forced to have faith along with them. The Book of the King essentially promoted the Yin and Yang of life. Tragedies are necessary for positive experiences to evolve. Everything has purpose, and there is good and evil in the world. The words in the Book had a Biblical feel to them, as they preached faith and hope. This preachiness was probably my main reservation toward the series. Younger readers may not have a tolerance for philosophical dialogue. Overall, I recommend you give this series a shot; I don't think you'll be disappointed.
This book concluded the series, and I've enjoyed the journey. The entire series was told from a second person point of view, which was a bit uncommon. This strategy allowed the narrator to speak directly to readers and draw them into the book. A devastating tragedy at the end of the fourth book carried over to this one, and I was left wondering how the authors would resolve it. Owen kept telling other characters to have faith, so I was forced to have faith along with them. The Book of the King essentially promoted the Yin and Yang of life. Tragedies are necessary for positive experiences to evolve. Everything has purpose, and there is good and evil in the world. The words in the Book had a Biblical feel to them, as they preached faith and hope. This preachiness was probably my main reservation toward the series. Younger readers may not have a tolerance for philosophical dialogue. Overall, I recommend you give this series a shot; I don't think you'll be disappointed.
March 11, 2014
Si quieres aventuras, desafíos y vivir muchas emociones, este libro es el indicado.
Owen Lektor descubre su identidad, y tiene que hacer cumplir la profecía de El Libro del Rey. Pero no será tan fácil, tendrá que pasar por momentos muy. difíciles, tendrá que tomar decisiones complicadas, tendrá que volver a las Tierras Altas y tendrá que enfrentar y aceptar lo que encontrará ahí.
Lo he terminado de leer y me ha parecido muy interesante, el final es muy bueno, pero hay cosas que jamás me imaginé que iban a pasar, y eso hizo que el libro sea muy interesante y divertido a la misma vez.
Esta serie, es apropiada para todas las edades, tiene un gran mensaje ( en cada libro encuentras muchos ) y tiene muchas aventuras. Es una de las mejores series que he leído y definitivamente Jenkins y Fabry han hecho un gran trabajo.
Me ha gustado toda la serie, lo recomiendo a todo el mundo
Owen Lektor descubre su identidad, y tiene que hacer cumplir la profecía de El Libro del Rey. Pero no será tan fácil, tendrá que pasar por momentos muy. difíciles, tendrá que tomar decisiones complicadas, tendrá que volver a las Tierras Altas y tendrá que enfrentar y aceptar lo que encontrará ahí.
Lo he terminado de leer y me ha parecido muy interesante, el final es muy bueno, pero hay cosas que jamás me imaginé que iban a pasar, y eso hizo que el libro sea muy interesante y divertido a la misma vez.
Esta serie, es apropiada para todas las edades, tiene un gran mensaje ( en cada libro encuentras muchos ) y tiene muchas aventuras. Es una de las mejores series que he leído y definitivamente Jenkins y Fabry han hecho un gran trabajo.
Me ha gustado toda la serie, lo recomiendo a todo el mundo
June 18, 2022
I did really enjoy this series, but not quite as much as I expected to. The "cliffhanger" ending of book three was actually something that I had theorized about, but I threw away that idea because I thought "That's such a dumb plot twist, it would never happen." It annoyed me quite a lot. I also wish that dragons weren't portrayed in such a negative light. There were some overused tropes, the chapters are extremely short, and while the series is written mostly in the past tense, it sometimes very weirdly shifts to the present tense (which I don't really like, especially in the third person). Despite its flaws, I still had fun reading it, and The Wormling series has become another favourite of mine.
March 3, 2023
And they kissed and everything became okay again. Dead people returned to life... well, not really. But the two worlds united and all the bad things were mostly undone.
The ending was unacceptable.
Also, the marriage plot was a bit too weird for my tastes. So disappointing that such a good series ended up like this.
The ending was unacceptable.
Also, the marriage plot was a bit too weird for my tastes. So disappointing that such a good series ended up like this.
October 18, 2023
Me gustó la saga. Fantástica, para niños y jóvenes. Con referencias a la fe.
May 17, 2020
Spoilers
While this final book is more well-written than the third book, I found myself very underwhelmed and confused.
There were many themes that seemed to come out of nowhere but that should have been woven in from the beginning. The obvious lack of Watcher left a big hole in the heart of the story (she's my favorite character and I missed her greatly!!) and even bringing Connie back couldn't make up for it, because this Connie is vastly different from the Connie of the first book.
While I was pleased that Connie wound up being the betrothed, the whole marriage plot was a little weird to me. I must admit I shipped Watcher and Owen from the beginning and absolutely adored Connie and Owen's relationship. But once everything was revealed, you never got a real sense of their relationship. It was just, This is what's going to happen and that's that. Nothing was really developed. Connie in particular is hardly seen interacting with Owen and yet once she's told she's going to marry him, she's suddenly madly in love with him? I mean, I totally believe she had a massive crush on him in the first book, but that seems to be a leap.
There's also the age thing that bugs me. How much time is supposed to have passed since the first book? Owen is described as being at least two years behind the other freshman at his school, so he's at most thirteen? Connie I believe is younger than that. By this book, Clara, who is a few years older than Owen, is still in high school. So Owen and Connie get married as teenagers?
I personally think that this series could have been pared down and written as a trilogy, focusing more on weaving in the many themes of the story so they don't just seem to appear out of nowhere. It almost felt like the authors were making up the plot as they went. Also the various relationships needed to be fleshed out more. Connie's in the first book, you fall in love with her, then she disappears, we meet Watcher, fall in love with her, then she dies and now we're back to Connie. It all just feels very disjointed.
Ultimately there's nothing wrong with this series. If a kid asked me if they should read them, I'd say go for it! But I personally wanted more.
As a whole, I loved three of the five stories, but this final story left me wanting. (And believe me, I WANTED to like it. I desperately TRIED to like it, but I just couldn't.) Had I read this series as a kid, I may have not cared as much, but I can't help being disappointed cause it should have been so much better.
While this final book is more well-written than the third book, I found myself very underwhelmed and confused.
There were many themes that seemed to come out of nowhere but that should have been woven in from the beginning. The obvious lack of Watcher left a big hole in the heart of the story (she's my favorite character and I missed her greatly!!) and even bringing Connie back couldn't make up for it, because this Connie is vastly different from the Connie of the first book.
While I was pleased that Connie wound up being the betrothed, the whole marriage plot was a little weird to me. I must admit I shipped Watcher and Owen from the beginning and absolutely adored Connie and Owen's relationship. But once everything was revealed, you never got a real sense of their relationship. It was just, This is what's going to happen and that's that. Nothing was really developed. Connie in particular is hardly seen interacting with Owen and yet once she's told she's going to marry him, she's suddenly madly in love with him? I mean, I totally believe she had a massive crush on him in the first book, but that seems to be a leap.
There's also the age thing that bugs me. How much time is supposed to have passed since the first book? Owen is described as being at least two years behind the other freshman at his school, so he's at most thirteen? Connie I believe is younger than that. By this book, Clara, who is a few years older than Owen, is still in high school. So Owen and Connie get married as teenagers?
I personally think that this series could have been pared down and written as a trilogy, focusing more on weaving in the many themes of the story so they don't just seem to appear out of nowhere. It almost felt like the authors were making up the plot as they went. Also the various relationships needed to be fleshed out more. Connie's in the first book, you fall in love with her, then she disappears, we meet Watcher, fall in love with her, then she dies and now we're back to Connie. It all just feels very disjointed.
Ultimately there's nothing wrong with this series. If a kid asked me if they should read them, I'd say go for it! But I personally wanted more.
As a whole, I loved three of the five stories, but this final story left me wanting. (And believe me, I WANTED to like it. I desperately TRIED to like it, but I just couldn't.) Had I read this series as a kid, I may have not cared as much, but I can't help being disappointed cause it should have been so much better.
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August 27, 2019This was a great way to end the Wormling Series. Though I was over the age limit, I enjoyed reading the series I had once read when I was younger. The only thing that perturbed me about this specific book was the descriptions of the people during the Wedding Song. Random people from the Lowlands (whom Owen barely knew) represented beloved characters from the Highlands, and they didn't mix well. Stanley with Mordecai? The Scribe with the undefined editor of the student newspaper in the Lowlands? It made zero sense. But excluding that fact, this book was fantastic with so much symbolism and laughs laced in it; and again, it was a great way to end this awesome series.
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January 5, 2019
A fitting end
I must admit I stopped reading about three quarters in! So much was happening and so little time seemed left that I could not imaging not being left disappointed in the conclusion of this tale. Again I was proven wrong and for that I am grateful. The ending is a fitting ending, yet I could see there being another tale or two or even another series spinning off this one. All in all a thrilling and very good read!
I must admit I stopped reading about three quarters in! So much was happening and so little time seemed left that I could not imaging not being left disappointed in the conclusion of this tale. Again I was proven wrong and for that I am grateful. The ending is a fitting ending, yet I could see there being another tale or two or even another series spinning off this one. All in all a thrilling and very good read!
September 6, 2018
The book was awesome! Read all 5 so fast because I couldn’t set them down! The Christian Life parallel was almost too unrealistic and a little stretch, but I would recommend this book for someone wanting to just enjoy themselves!
January 2, 2018
Last book of the series, but to me, the BEST. I love this more than I could put into words.
February 24, 2018
This book is awesome! I couldn't stop reading this book once I started!
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April 21, 2018loved it!!!
May 28, 2019
I have stuck through with this series till now, and I thought the last book was a good finale to this series.
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June 26, 2025Great
Will there be about her book because of the prologe of is it ended??? Because I wanna read the next book of there is one
Will there be about her book because of the prologe of is it ended??? Because I wanna read the next book of there is one
August 5, 2022
Una serie magistral 🤍
September 9, 2014
It's not entirely original for a recent work of fiction to contain an allegorical tale of the end times, so we're probably not surprised with
the arrival of the Wormling series. A Christian series, in fact. I fortunately didn't buy these books, but borrowed them to read and discovered they're quite simply a waste of time.
Let me explain.
Most of us are probably familiar with The Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Narnia, and other classic fantasy based stories. These bringing to light some moral points possibly through some biblical analogy. It seems like that may have been the author(s) plan which unfortunately got side-tracked as they got caught up in the story they were creating.
Yeah, creating. One thing they never tired of was making up new creatures to do their dirty work, namely, to serve the "baddies" and hurt the "good guys". Hideous creature after hideous creature romp through the pages. Some are barely described and others ignored as you wonder what they look like. A few of the characters on the side of the good fall in this vague place as well, though one is described as having the face of a dog and a rat, thick fur (sheep, dog, whatever?), and hooves of a goat---though not in as many words. Come on! They seemed afraid to copy characters/creatures most of us would be familiar with and made up their own (that Erol was a dwarf/Munchkin/elf/what the heck?! The author(s) apparently made up much of these 5 books as they wrote them and they weren't secure in what they were telling.
The last book is by far the worst: the writers hinting, maybe warning the reader at the coming atrocities, yet reveling in the telling. Okay, I know things are terrible and will be for all evil, especially as written in Revelation, but the disturbing accounts here are appalling. "And her blood", says the Dragon, "shall anoint my throne!" Page after page we hear the same gory phrase repeated carelessly till it's annoying.
Out-of-place modern analogies only contributed to the jumble of confusion. There was even some bathroom humor thrown in, more than likely to appeal to greater crowds of readers. Yet people call this 'clean!' Toilet jokes are not clean, folks!! This is more than appalling in Christian juvenile fiction and probably just another ploy to sell more of this drivel. Chapters are short, only to keep the story moving---and it does, but only on confusing trips seemingly only meant to fill the pages.
This is not intended to be a comparison review but if you want a true Christian fiction fantasy, read The Door Within trilogy.
Don't read the Wormling series. And please don't give it to your kids.
the arrival of the Wormling series. A Christian series, in fact. I fortunately didn't buy these books, but borrowed them to read and discovered they're quite simply a waste of time.
Let me explain.
Most of us are probably familiar with The Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Narnia, and other classic fantasy based stories. These bringing to light some moral points possibly through some biblical analogy. It seems like that may have been the author(s) plan which unfortunately got side-tracked as they got caught up in the story they were creating.
Yeah, creating. One thing they never tired of was making up new creatures to do their dirty work, namely, to serve the "baddies" and hurt the "good guys". Hideous creature after hideous creature romp through the pages. Some are barely described and others ignored as you wonder what they look like. A few of the characters on the side of the good fall in this vague place as well, though one is described as having the face of a dog and a rat, thick fur (sheep, dog, whatever?), and hooves of a goat---though not in as many words. Come on! They seemed afraid to copy characters/creatures most of us would be familiar with and made up their own (that Erol was a dwarf/Munchkin/elf/what the heck?! The author(s) apparently made up much of these 5 books as they wrote them and they weren't secure in what they were telling.
The last book is by far the worst: the writers hinting, maybe warning the reader at the coming atrocities, yet reveling in the telling. Okay, I know things are terrible and will be for all evil, especially as written in Revelation, but the disturbing accounts here are appalling. "And her blood", says the Dragon, "shall anoint my throne!" Page after page we hear the same gory phrase repeated carelessly till it's annoying.
Out-of-place modern analogies only contributed to the jumble of confusion. There was even some bathroom humor thrown in, more than likely to appeal to greater crowds of readers. Yet people call this 'clean!' Toilet jokes are not clean, folks!! This is more than appalling in Christian juvenile fiction and probably just another ploy to sell more of this drivel. Chapters are short, only to keep the story moving---and it does, but only on confusing trips seemingly only meant to fill the pages.
This is not intended to be a comparison review but if you want a true Christian fiction fantasy, read The Door Within trilogy.
Don't read the Wormling series. And please don't give it to your kids.
June 19, 2008
I totally devoured this book! One morning I picked up THE MINIONS OF TIME (the book b4 this one in the Wormling Series) and began to read it. I had read a couple chapters in it, but not much. I couldn't put it down, at the end of each chapter, I couldn't wait to find out what happened next. I finished THE MINIONS OF TIME b4 lunch and moved on to THE AUTHOR'S BLOOD. I started it at about one o'clock and finished it at about nine thirty.
November 6, 2016
Over all this whole series was really good. This was a great ending to the the series. I liked how the two worlds emerge and shows that we have have a worldly side and a spiritual side that need to merge together and be what God truly wants us to be.
The whole series keeps you interested and into the story. Was not boring or too preachy. I think kids and adults alike could get something out of it.
The whole series keeps you interested and into the story. Was not boring or too preachy. I think kids and adults alike could get something out of it.
January 15, 2010
Perfect end to this 5 book series! Everything is wrapped up very well and all characters have grown and learned. It's very intense right up until the end though!!! The dragon battles are very good!
April 6, 2014
Awesome, awesome, awesome series! I cheered, laughed, cried and loved each book! I highly recommend this series to adults as well as young readers. I'm sad to see the series end but look forward to re-reading them soon.
November 8, 2015
RESEÑA COMPLETA DE TODA LA SERIE
Una serie única y muy especial.
April 2, 2009
What a series of books. I loved them. They ended and i still was wanting more. These were really good.
August 25, 2009
Over all a very good series. It was very much like narnia in that it contained many obvious parallels with christian teachings.
February 22, 2010
Sorry, the first book of the series is "The Book of the King" The serics is called The Wromling. Excelent!
April 18, 2011
this is a good ending to the series and has a suprising yet pleasing twist at the end and is a favorite of mine
May 14, 2020
Enjoyed the series...
Very good ending to the series, nice twist at the end... Trust the King and His son always.
Very good ending to the series, nice twist at the end... Trust the King and His son always.
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