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The Girl Who Saved the World #2
Airy Castles All Ablaze
The sequel to Eclipse, The Girl Who Saved the World Eclipse... World’s Greatest Tween Superhero! World’s Most Terrifying Tween Supervillain! Opinions differ. Meet Eclipse. She's twelve. She’s hardworking, bright, self-reliant, good with tools, vigorously physically fit, tough as nails, still young enough to disguise herself as a boy. She’s a superhero—persona, they’re called on her time She flies, shrugs off bullets and artillery shells, and shatters fortifications with a glance. She had a bit of a problem with her mom. Her mom threw her out of the house. Then Mom blew up the house and disappeared. Now Eclipse and her friends are on our Earth. They were sent here to beat the Two Dooms. If the Two Dooms win, we all die. Eclipse knows one certain fact. Whether she stops them or not, she probably gets to die trying.
407 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 15, 2019
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November 29, 2019
A great follow-up to "Eclipse : the girl who saved the world", and even if I'd recommend that you read that book first, it is not absolutely necessary to follow the action in this one - and there's plenty of that!
By the way - the point the story ends is evil :) but great, nonetheless. I look definitely forward to book 3 in this series (and hope, the Hollywood scouts know their business and make sure, that these books will be turned into blockbuster movies (which would most probably put the so called "super hero"-movies created by Marvel et al to smithereens ... :D)
By the way - the point the story ends is evil :) but great, nonetheless. I look definitely forward to book 3 in this series (and hope, the Hollywood scouts know their business and make sure, that these books will be turned into blockbuster movies (which would most probably put the so called "super hero"-movies created by Marvel et al to smithereens ... :D)
September 9, 2021
The sequel to Eclipse: The Girl Who Saved the World Spoilers ahead for that.
So our intrepid young four -- Eclipse and the siblings Comet, Star, and Aurora --arrive on Mars, and the siblings go to speak to the Wizard of Mars. Eclipse is just as glad because if you ask the Wizard a question, you have to pay the price he sets. (This has ended past civilizations.)
Another young persona (superhero) arrives. Cloud, whom the three know, and so they set out to the end of the universe and back. There are problems, but not really until they return and can't connect. This is their first warning they are in a world very different, with vastly altered history and no personas. (It is not exactly our world, but closer than theirs. ) So they cope, especially because they still have two dooms to fight, and since this world has seven billion people, that plus the billion of their own does add up to eight billion.
It involves coins, their wonder at a justice system without telepathy, raking a lawn, secret powers even in that world, a space shuttle, and more. Also quarrels that may remind you of the destroyed tower in the last book.
So our intrepid young four -- Eclipse and the siblings Comet, Star, and Aurora --arrive on Mars, and the siblings go to speak to the Wizard of Mars. Eclipse is just as glad because if you ask the Wizard a question, you have to pay the price he sets. (This has ended past civilizations.)
Another young persona (superhero) arrives. Cloud, whom the three know, and so they set out to the end of the universe and back. There are problems, but not really until they return and can't connect. This is their first warning they are in a world very different, with vastly altered history and no personas. (It is not exactly our world, but closer than theirs. ) So they cope, especially because they still have two dooms to fight, and since this world has seven billion people, that plus the billion of their own does add up to eight billion.
It involves coins, their wonder at a justice system without telepathy, raking a lawn, secret powers even in that world, a space shuttle, and more. Also quarrels that may remind you of the destroyed tower in the last book.
December 30, 2024
In the second book in the series, Phillies sets up a magical quest and an alternate earth story all in one. Assigned by the Wizard of Mars to stop two dooms, the Medford League (Eclipse, Comet, Aurora, Star, and newcomer, Cloud) end up in a world much like our own, completely without personae. By contrasting our mores with theirs, the reader gets more insight into how the existence of gifted persons and subtle mind control have baked customs into each population. Both sides seem amazingly obtuse about countenancing alternative realities, especially as the gifted reality has knowledge of Otherearth. This is very much a middle novel, necessary but a bit of a slog in the early and middle chapters.
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