Chapter 17 - Poison Polly

If you'll remember, Marcus just teleported to Farworld where he promptly fainted after Kyja's horse told a bad joke. Marcus wakes up from his little swoon to the awe-inspiring smell of unpolluted air. Once he's fully awake, he looks around and wonders where he is. He realizes he's not in Arizona anymore, then the narrator ( Read more... )

Chapter 16 - An Elastic Escape
If you remember, the last chapter ended with Kyja seeing Marcus somehow (but not through magic because she definitely can't use magic, right? Right?) and pulling on a "rope" in an effort to help him. Chapter 16 abruptly cuts to Marcus' POV. Marcus is screaming as the snake lunges toward him and he has time to think of ( Read more... )

Chapter 15 - The Golden Rope

This one is pretty short.

( Random visions? Okay. )

Chapter 14 - Taking A Chance

This chapter is a bit erratic and confusing, so I'll just try to summarize for the most part.

( Cliched destruction! )

Chapter 13 - Problem Solver
This chapter has pretty intense child molestation vibes, so be warned...

( Okay then.... )

Chapter 12 - The Boy In The Window

Master Therapass is spouting off cryptic nonsense, which Savage probably thought made the scene more tense, but really just makes it clear that this book suffers from a bad case of the cliches.

( There's no time to explain! )

Chapter 11 - Rhymes And Revelations

Marcus is getting ready to leave the school with Linstrope, and is packing up his few possessions under the watchful eye of Principal Teagarden.

( Toilet humor and faulty escape plans. )

Chapter 10 - The All-Seeing Eye

Therapass is trying to burn Kyja alive. No, really.

( Magic, magic, magic. )

Chapter 9 - Lost And Found

This chapter had the potential to be really good and give us a better idea of how Marcus works. But, because Savage hates good writing, things go downhill quickly.
( Ugh. )

In my volunteer work at the library over the years, I've had a lot of weird things happen. Today was no exception. I was putting up a display near the computers and was pinning up the word "fractured". Some old guy started arguing with me that I had spelled it wrong and said it was supposed to be written "fracsured". We spent like three minutes ( Read more... )