Search for Senna (Everworld, 1)

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Summary: BEST SERIES EVER!!!!
Review: This book is the starting book of the best series I have ever read. I did not like the Animorphs series so I was hesitant at first to get into this book but once I started reading it, I was addicted. It talks about a group of friends from high school that get pulled into the magical world of Everworld. Every book in the series is told by a different person in the group. I read all 12 books in the series and I was amazed. They were great. So if you need a really good book to read, not too long, not too short than this is the book for you.

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Summary: Lost
Review: A Review by Vanessa

The Search for Senna has a slow beginning, but the action and dialogue start after the first couple of chapters. Chris's girlfriend Sienna has disappeared. Her sister, April, and a couple of their friends all end up finding a portal that someone has set for them there. That's where the action begins. Soon they find themselves in a world were everything isn't like it should be. They run from the ruthless gods of this place, runoff a cliff and die. Just kidding. It turns out that all the rules are different, like gravity. They drop into a freezing cold lake, but luckily for them a boat just magically floats their way. They stumble upon a Viking camp, and pose as musicians for their entertainment. They meet some really cool people, who take them on an unbelievable journey. But someone is after them. They just have to find out who.

I really liked a lot of things about this book. One thing I liked was the dialogue. It kept you on your toes, and it was like you were really there. Everything they said had relevance to the story, it wasn't just filler. I think that must've been very hard for the writer but it was worth it. Another thing I thought was cool was the level of difficulty. It wasn't a long book, but it was a good one. I think it was a very easy read, and that could be a good or a bad thing. If you are looking for a good, fast read this would be a good book for you. I also liked it because it was a fantasy/science fiction book. I like those kind of books, as do many other people, too.

I would recommend this book to people that enjoy fantasy/science fiction books, or even action books. It was a good read and I'd read it again. And again. It was that good, I think.

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Summary: Best Book Ever
Review: I love the book. For a while I never was able to read a book because I was allways distracted by EVERYTHING! But this book was so great it got me hooked on to fanitasy books. FIVE STAR RATING. I would recommened this book to anyone!

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Summary: Everworld
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In the book Everworld David is the main character and he is new at his school. He does't get along with his classmates that well. David did have a girld friend though. Her name was Senna and people thought she was kind of on the weird side, but David didn't. One day Senna talks wiht david and tells him that somehting terrible was going to happen. One morning David took a jog to the lake and surprisingly Christopher,Jalil,and April were there watching.Watching Senna. She was sitting on a rock, but nobody moved. Suddenly a wolf the size of an elephant comes out from the water and takes Senna away. David and the other people jumped in after her. Only to land in a mysterious place called Everworld where mad gods lived and vikings roamed. The only way they found out to get back in the real world was to sleep. It was like they lived in two worlds. Under the vikings they went to battle wiht the Aztecs and were to take the head off of their gargantuous god. The search for Senna was still on its way.
The thing i kind of disliked about the story is that David,a skinny, normal height, 15 year old knew how to fight like he was a warrior."In sheer panic, I leaned into the sword, thrusting with all my weight,all the adrenaline powered my strength." That was the only part where it seemed weird because it was practically his first time touching a sword and it was like magic.
I liked this book because it was interesting and more out of the box then other fiction books. this normal teen and his three other friends get sucked in some unkown, enchanted world. At the same time when they could come in and out of the real world. It was a twist that i never expected. This book really expressed the teen mind. Using prafanity occasionally made it sound more like the real world and how people react to things. Imnot saying prafanity is a good thing,but often times it's used to express anger and it was used perfectly in this book.
My favorite part of this book is when David and the Vikings go to battle wiht the Aztecs. This was very interesting because i thought vikings never fought the Aztecs in history, but that was an unexpected twist i mentioned before.David went in battle wiht the vikings and mentioned about the berserks and how crazed they were. I had juzt learned that in history so i was surprised it was mentioned in the book and knew what it was talking about.I hope to read the other series because the first one was an awesome adventure.

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Summary: Everworld
Review: ...Everworld David is the main character and he is new at his school. He does't get along with his classmates that well. David did have a girld friend though. Her name was Senna and people thought she was kind of on the weird side, but David didn't. One day Senna talks wiht david and tells him that somehting terrible was going to happen. One morning David took a jog to the lake and surprisingly Christopher,Jalil,and April were there watching.Watching Senna. She was sitting on a rock, but nobody moved. Suddenly a wolf the size of an elephant comes out from the water and takes Senna away. David and the other people jumpred in after her. Only to land in a mysterious place called Everworld where mad gods lived and vikings roamed. The only way they found out to get back in the real world was to sleep. It was like they lived in two worlds. Under the vikings they went to battle wiht the Aztecs and were to take the head off of their gargantuous god. The search for Senna was still on its way.
The thing i kind of disliked about the story is that David,a skinny, normal height, 15 year old knew how to fight like he was a warrior."In sheer panic, I leaned into the sword, thrusting with all my weight,all the adrenaline powered my strength." That was the only part where it seemed weird because it was practically his first time touching a sword and it was like magic.
I liked this book because it was interesting and more out of the box then other fiction books. this normal teen and his three other friends get sucked in some unkown, enchanted world. At the same time when they could come in and out of the real world. It was a twist that i never expected. This book really expressed the teen mind. Using prafanity occasionally made it sound more like the real world and how people react to things.
My favorite part of this book is when David and the Vikings go to battle wiht the Aztecs. This was very interesting because i thought vikings never fought the Aztecs in history, but that was an unexpected twist i mentioned before.David went in battle wiht the vikings and mentioned about the berserks and how crazed they were. I had juzt learned that in history so i was surprised it was mentioned in the book and knew what it was talking about.I hope to read the other series because the first one was an awesome adventure.

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Summary: Best book ever!!!!
Review: This book is very exciting and it never stops! Nothing is ever dull. There are two worlds- Everworld and the real world. Four friends struggle to stay alive while they try to find their friend Senna who discovered the porthole to Everworld. They all fight with one another, cuss each other out; meanwhile, every soldier in the castle is chasing them with swords. Jumping out windows, fighting monstrous creatures, and strange dreams aren't even half the story! I think everyone would enjoy this book, boys and girls. I highly recommend this book, and I give it five stars! (by the way I'm not 3 im 14! yea it doesn't go that high though)

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Summary: Everworld series
Review: I'm reading on number 11 in the series right now, and since i started reading them, i can't put the books down. Our school library has 1-12. I really thought these were all good books, keeping you in suspense and having many twists and turns in the stories.

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Summary: When Everything Was Good
Review: Everworld, how I miss thee. Those where the days, when Applegate was my idol and I broke the bank account on her books. When Everworld (not to mention Animorphs) ended it was like my air supply ended. Applegate broke mine and so many other's hearts that day. Everworld isn't the greatest fantasy series ever written but it's a great fantasy to live in for a short time.

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Summary: Hard to Judge
Review: I admit it, this book is strange at first. A parallel universe? Giant wolves, witches, and trolls? After reading the first book, I still wasn't sure what I thought of the book. After reading the second out of curiousity, I got hooked. It's a very compelling, suspenseful, and well written book. Every book's perspective changes varying from the four young adults trapped in everworld, (or atleast I think from reading the first three so far, they could be more, you never know!) Overall, a wonderful series so far, and a must read!!

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Summary: Great fun and actually educational (no, really)
Review: Applegate's Animorphs and Everworld series share a similar demographic base with R.L. Stine's Goosebumps and Fear Street books (both by Scholastic, which also publishes J.K. Rowling). Applegate, though, is the better writer by a long shot. That said, I have yet to develop a serious interest in the hugely popular Animorphs. I felt the series was entirely too device rather than plot-driven (the device being kids who, thanks to extraterrestrial influences, could change--or "morph"--into animals).

But I'm a big fan of its less-appreciated older sibling, Everworld. It begins with her racially balanced gang of suburban kids getting transported into an alternate universe, a kind of dumping ground for all the old world mythological gods. After that, it turns into a serial novel in the true sense of the old B-movie Hollywood cliffhangers: quick, easy reads, snappy dialog and lots of action verbs. It's a formula that reminds me of a comment by Kurosawa on the writing of Hidden Fortress: every morning he'd think up a real fix to get his hero and heroine into, and it'd be up to his writing staff to figure out a way to get them out of it.

Applegate does have. A tendency. To use way too many. Periods. And either Applegate or her publisher (Scholastic) decided that no one gets to really swear, so we're too often left with those television cuss-word approximations. I say, either use the real words, or take it out. The compromise is just annoying.

Otherwise, she does a good job with capturing teen sensibilities in impossible situations. She sticks to a strict POV, but rotates it book to book (as she does in Animorphs). It provides a Rashomon-like perspective on her characters' internal and interpersonal conflicts. She then seasons her prose with just enough teen angst and contrariness to make her teens' inner lives compelling and realistic, without coming across as self-absorbed and annoying.

And she has done her homework. It's not the forum where you expect a textbook approach to the subject, but pay attention and you will learn a good deal about world mythological traditions.

Taken as a whole, Everworld ultimately proves a point that needs proving more often: try to be profound on purpose, and you'll end up sounding shallow; start out by telling a good story and the profundities emerge on their own. Although her teens' hang-ups and foibles occasionally have that After School Special feel to them, by keeping the plot pounding along like a herd of stampeding elephants Applegate staves off unnecessary and self-indulgent wallowing, and ends up saying a whole lot more about life than you would have imagined possible in this genre.