The Legendeer Trilogy

Legendeer Trilogy #1-3

by Alan Gibbons

SHADOW OF THE MINOTAUR, VAMPYR LEGION and WARRIORS OF THE RAVEN are computer games that open the gateway between our own world and the realm of myth and legend, with heroes and monsters, daring deeds and narrow escapes, triumphs and tragedies. Over the course of three exhilarating novels, our hero Phoenix escapes the workaday ordeal of his own life in order to face the evil Gamesmaster - not once, but three times. Every time he goes back he risks all as the stakes become increasingly higher, and he learns the Gamesmaster's merciless power knows no bounds. As he approaches his final conflict, the journey becomes heartstopping. Our future depends on his ...

576 pages, Paperback

First published February 7, 2008

About the author

Alan Gibbons is an author of children's books and a Blue Peter Book Award. He currently lives in Liverpool, England, where he used to teach in a primary school. His father was a farm laborer, but was hurt in an accident when Alan was eight years old. The family had to move to Crewe, Cheshire where Alan experienced bullying for the first time. He began to write for his pupils as a teacher, but never tried to get any of his work published.

Gibbons trained to be a teacher in his mid-thirties and starting writing short stories for his students. Later, he began to write professionally. In 2000, he won the Blue Peter Book Award in the category "The Book I Couldn't Put Down" category for Shadow of the Minotaur. He was a judge for the 2001 Blue Peter Book Awards. He was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal in 2001 and 2003 and shortlisted twice for the Booktrust Teenage Prize. He has also won the Leicester Book of the Year, the Stockport Book Award, the Angus Book Award, the Catalyst Award, the Birmingham Chills Award, the Salford Young Adult Book Award and the Salford Librarians' Special Award.

Reviews

[Debra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just opened the first page and found a quote by Tony Benn, what an unexpected gift!

Trilogy where each book is set in a different mythical world where our modern day hero gets sucked into a computer game along with his female friend (heroine) and male bully from school (arch enemy). The computer game is alive and wants a portal to enter our world and uses our hero to try and do this. Face -paced and believable story lines and characters make this an excellent read.

[rollingthunder · Rating 4 out of 5]

Perfect mix of mythology and modern life!

[Angel Shan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Remembering childhood :)

[Beau Leach · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is a very engaging book. this is a very interesting read because it challenges the boundaries of modern day technology and that makes it just that little bit more scary. if you liked this, then try erebos. it is kinda along the same lines but it has a little bit of a different twist.