About This Book
If you like Harry Potter, Chronicle of Narnia, and Neil Gaiman's fantasies, you will love fantasy YA adventure books from Kailin Gow like this one. This series is appropriate for 16 and up, and has the added bonus of being an SAT study aid. The Wordwick Games is as deadly as it is exhilarating. Continuing after Book 1, Rise of the Fire Tamer, the five gamers find out more about the truth of Anachronia and Henry Word. After finding out the truth about Anachronia; Gem, Sparks, Rio, Kat, and Jack returns to Henry Word's castle. Henry Word, the inventor of The Wordwick Games, is missing, and only he can control the portal that leads to all the worlds. The gamers must find him at all costs, but in doing so, it may change everything they know about themselves and their own world. When they learn a war is brewing within the worlds of The Wordwick Games, which will spill out into their own world, and the gamers are pitted against each other in a real fight to the death, dreams become reality... In this exciting second book of The Wordwick Games Series, the stakes to The Games are higher, and the prize is life. From the award-winning ALA YALSA author Kailin Gow of the Bitter Frost Series, now being produced as a multi-player, multi-platform game.
