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Spellbinders: Break the Game
It takes more than magic to make a hero, in the next installment of this hilarious and epic illustrated series. One not-so-chosen champion and his mystical friends must cross the multiverse and harness a dangerous power to defeat a mysterious new enemy.
"My favorite new fantasy series.”
—Max Brallier, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Last Kids on Earth series
After leveling up from basement roleplaying games to saving an entire magical realm, 12-year-old Ben isn’t happy returning to his ordinary life of homework and chores. So when his very un-magical LARP session is crashed by monstrous frog-men from another dimension, he can't wait to get back into hero mode.
Someone is after all the Spellbinder’s books, which grant the users — including Ben — epic reality-shifting powers. Ben, Niara, Merv, Drake, and their new friend Agnes must embark on an epic quest to save the books and their owners. But while hopping across different realms may be Ben’s idea of a totally awesome spring break, it’s tough to be an ordinary kid among extraordinary heroes. Especially when fighting for the fate of the universe seems to consist mostly of finding fun new ways to get them all killed, from zombie rats to pool noodle squids, to a mysterious Big Bad controlling everything from behind the scenes. How do you win the game when someone else is rolling the dice?
"My favorite new fantasy series.”
—Max Brallier, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Last Kids on Earth series
After leveling up from basement roleplaying games to saving an entire magical realm, 12-year-old Ben isn’t happy returning to his ordinary life of homework and chores. So when his very un-magical LARP session is crashed by monstrous frog-men from another dimension, he can't wait to get back into hero mode.
Someone is after all the Spellbinder’s books, which grant the users — including Ben — epic reality-shifting powers. Ben, Niara, Merv, Drake, and their new friend Agnes must embark on an epic quest to save the books and their owners. But while hopping across different realms may be Ben’s idea of a totally awesome spring break, it’s tough to be an ordinary kid among extraordinary heroes. Especially when fighting for the fate of the universe seems to consist mostly of finding fun new ways to get them all killed, from zombie rats to pool noodle squids, to a mysterious Big Bad controlling everything from behind the scenes. How do you win the game when someone else is rolling the dice?
416 pages, Paperback
Published May 6, 2025
About the author
Andrew Auseon
15 books25 followersAndrew Auseon is a writer of novels for young people, and a designer of video games. He holds a B.A. from Ohio University and a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults from the prestigious Vermont College.
He lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife, Sarah Zogby, and their two daughters.
He lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife, Sarah Zogby, and their two daughters.
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May 16, 2025
Spellbinders by Andrew Auseon is book number 2 in the Spellbinder series. I love these books, they are a middle school read and I love that there is table top gaming as the premise of the book. This is my favorite new middle school fantasy series! The author writes a tremendous job with writing this series.
Spellbinders takes place in the 1990's when I was a kid. The main characters are Ben, who is a spellbinder, and his friends Merv, and Agnes. The three friends are enjoying a LARP session when all of a sudden their session is interrupted by frog men. That shouldn't be possible in the read world. And Ben and his friends find out someone is after the Spellbinder books that makes Ben be able to be in the real world and the world of Lux.
Once again the author transports the readers into a world of role playing and fantasy in this series and this is a well written middle school book. My kids love this series especially my 14 year old as he is a role player in real life and he enjoys the game that Ben and his friends play as it reminds him of the gaming that he and his friends do every Friday night. The ending makes you want to keep reading for the next book as that ending introduces a new character, and makes you wonder who it is a reader.
Spellbinders takes place in the 1990's when I was a kid. The main characters are Ben, who is a spellbinder, and his friends Merv, and Agnes. The three friends are enjoying a LARP session when all of a sudden their session is interrupted by frog men. That shouldn't be possible in the read world. And Ben and his friends find out someone is after the Spellbinder books that makes Ben be able to be in the real world and the world of Lux.
Once again the author transports the readers into a world of role playing and fantasy in this series and this is a well written middle school book. My kids love this series especially my 14 year old as he is a role player in real life and he enjoys the game that Ben and his friends play as it reminds him of the gaming that he and his friends do every Friday night. The ending makes you want to keep reading for the next book as that ending introduces a new character, and makes you wonder who it is a reader.
September 3, 2026
It was a pretty good book.
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