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The Seems: The Split Second (2008)

by John Hulme(Favorite Author)

3.88 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1599901307 (ISBN13: 9781599901305)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Bloomsbury USA Childrens

series

The Seems

review 1: This book tells the story of another world, called "the seems" which actually keeps our world running. The main character lives a double life, both as a teenage boy on Earth and a "fixer" in The Seems who solves problems that would interfere with the basic functioning of the world. He's supposed to fix a potential disaster that would mess up the passage of time on earth, and he uses all kinds of other-world technology and complicated theories to try and fix things. The author's created a pretty complex world, and I got lost a few times in the detailed explanations of how things work. There are a few deeper themes in the book - the importance of doing your best to help even when things look impossibly bad for instance - but I was a bit concerned by the whole premise that li... morefe on earth is more meaningful because there's another world of beings secretly taking care of things, occasionally making mistakes. To me, it seemed almost demeaning to the people on earth, that they were unknowingly the pawns of this other civilization - kind of like the Greek Gods or something! But maybe I'm just reading too much into this. :)
review 2: The second book in the series was, thankfully, not at all a letdown. These gentlemen really know how to write entertaining, funny, intelligent, extremely creative books. Weakness in dialogue is one of the only downfalls to The Seems books, but you almost have to view that through a Star Wars lens (I tried to picture Harrison Ford or Mark Hamill saying a lot of Becker's lines and it worked surprisingly well). less

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