A highly recommended adventure — BLACK WATER reviewed
Pendragon: Black Water by D. J. MacHale
Reviewed by Annie, age 14
There’s a set of rules for everything, even though most of them have became so natural to us that we do not even realize that we are being restricted by them. You don’t speak during a test. You handle equipment with care. You look left and right when you cross the street. For teenager Bobby Pendragon, one of the few that travel through time and space to save all the territories of Halla, there even is a set of rules for stopping the destruction done by the evil Saint Dane!
Except, his team is losing because Saint Dane, being a presence of chaos, does not follow the rules himself. How can you beat a cheater without cheating?
Black Water by D. J. MacHale is fast-paced and gripping, following the adventures of Bobby and his fellow Travelers trying their best to save a population from genocide, as well as his friends, Courtney and Mark, as they attempt to help Bobby in their own way. They all have thrown away the rules now. Could this be the way to save Halla, or is it a fatal mistake to abandon'the legacy left to them by the previous generation of Travelers?
This book starts out in a shocking manner, with everything not the same as it once was — with travelling and with normal life as Mark and Courtney once knew. Just imagine the shock Bobby has when he finds out that he is disrespected as a member of a lesser race by the people who he had to save!
This book is refreshing and full of suspense, especially if you’ve already read the previous books in the Pendragon series, where everyone kept to the rules. Everything is different now, and the outcome of the Travelers’ decision keeps you guessing. Finally, just when victory is acquired, the plot takes a deadly turn. A highly recommended adventure tale dotted with slight humour and sarcasm!
4 thoughts on “A highly recommended adventure — BLACK WATER reviewed”
Never heard of this book, but I’ve seen it many times in the library. Guess its worth a try.
Is it just me, or does this cover seem generic??? It reminds me of the Warrior series about cats that my friend introduced me to in third grade.
It does remind me of the Warrior series! The plot also seems somewhat generic as well; with the main character breaking from society rules in order to save the greater good.
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