Series: Oracle Series
Author: C.W. Trisef
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Pub Date: March, 2012
Publisher: Trisef Book LLC
Format: paperback
Pages: 323
Purchase: Amazon / Barnes and Noble
Summary:
The adventure continues! With the first element (earth) painfully collected within the Oracle, Ret Cooper and his friends return home to find that things are only heating up. Thanks to some mischief caused by the peculiar Benjamin Coy, Ret’s second scar makes its explosive debut. But what does it mean, and where will it take them? These questions gnaw at Ret as he begins his sophomore year at Tybee High.
With challenging twists, inspired turns, and a few unexpected surprises, our hero once again confronts danger and disaster, while discovering newfound feelings for a certain female companion. Old friends and foes, along with a few new ones, follow Ret as more of our world’s mysteries lead him to Fire Island and the second element (fire). Ancient artifacts, a hot-air balloon, lines in the desert, a city in the mountains, tribal societies, and even the navel of the world all play their parts in Ret’s continued quest to fill the Oracle.
This second installment in the Oracle series is a must read, full of fun, adventure, and wholesome purpose. Hang on tight as author C.W. Trisef takes you to places and predicaments you have never seen before or even imagined, and makes you feel like you are a part of Ret’s destiny, to cure the world.
Review:
I was excited to jump back into the Oracle series with Ret
and his friends. These books just appeal to my Science side and I am amazed at
how C.W. Trisef can make the unreal make sense. I was awed by it in the first
book and wasn’t let down in this book either.
This book picks up where the last book leaves off and rather
than just jumping onto the next thing, it does a good job of wrapping up the
last adventure. It’s not one of those instances where you wonder how nobody
noticed this World altering event took place.
I love Ret as the main character but he is still got some
growing up to do. I like though how active the adults are in guiding him. They
give him insight that he needs to kind of figure things out. He is definitely
still finding himself out and to me it makes him endearing. He’s not perfect he
has flaws and that is something that I’m greatly fond of in characters. I also
like the slow blooming romance with Paige.
What I really liked about this book was that the characters
broke off into groups and kind of had their own separate stories. It wasn’t all
of them together all the time and it was nice to have that. It gives some of
the characters the ability to shine a little more on their own.
I have to admit I have a strange fondness for Ben Coy, he
can be a really arrogant jerk but there is just something about him that gives
you the impression that he is really looking out for the kids. It might also be
because I want to live in his house! I love the planetarium! I found Pauline to be less annoying in this
book. I remember her kind of driving me nuts sometimes in the first book. Paige
holds steady as likable character for me and same with Ana.
The best thing about the plot is that there is so much that
I find fascinating. I felt like looking up more information about Machu Pichu
and Easter Island. I feel like it’s such a great thing to engage me as a reader
in that way. I just find myself so fascinated with all of the different worlds
that are created in our own existing world.
I love all of the gadgets that Mr. Coy comes up with and I can imagine
someone actually inventing them. On the back of the book as well as on the
website there are pictures of Machu Picchu and Easter Island, plus a little
history. Honestly, I kind of want to go there now…
Argh the cliffhanger, there were two parts to this one. It
was one of those where I flipped a couple pages after the last one thinking,
hold on you are going to leave it hanging like that. Well it did and now of
course I have to read the next book.
It’s a series that I’m going to keep reading because the books
have kept me engaged completely through both of them. I’ve never felt like I’m
shocked that there is going to be seven books. I have really enjoyed the first
two.
I’m also starting to be convinced that C.W. Trisef is
floating around in an invisible hot air balloon….