After the fall of the zombies, the balance of power between the monsters of the Far Lands of Minecraft is disrupted. The skeleton warlord Rakar grows stronger, and his skeleton army is leaving a terrible path of destruction in their wake. Watcher and his friends, determined to stop the violence, realize the warlord’s power lives in the magical Fossil Bow of Destruction. The mysterious weapon is locked away in the skeletons’ subterranean kingdom, but unless the bow is stolen, all of the Far Lands could be destroyed forever!The Rise of the Warlords series is a Minecraft adventure like never before, giving fans the option to play along in Minecraft as they read on custom Far Lands worlds exclusively designed by bestselling author Mark Cheverton.
Mark Cheverton grew up in Southern California, going through high school, and college. After college, Mark taught high school physics and math for many years. While teaching, he earned a Master's degree in Physics and conducted research on planetary atmospherics. After moving to the east coast, he started doing research for a Fortune 100 company in the fields of machine vision and additive manufacturing. His first book, The Algae Voices of Azule, was released in 2012, followed by the sequel shortly after.
He recently released the first book in his Minecraft series, Invasion of the Overworld: A Minecraft Novel, which is expected to be followed by the sequel, Battle for the Nether, in early 2014.
My son is a Minecraft enthusiast (that's putting it mildly), and this series of books by Cheverton is good clean fun. Cheverton never goes out of bounds for a parent who wants their kids to have safe enjoyable reading. The adventures are spectacular and the themes are moral. My son and I read this series out loud together in the evenings and we have a blast doing it.