Book Review

Borderland 

By: Savannah Squires, Editor

Ever dreamed of a door into another world?  Well for Zoë, it was dangerously real.  In the first book of the series, Right of Passage, Zoë starts out as a military child and is always moving around.  When she moves to England, she tries desperately to fit in.  But no matter what she tried, she ended up failing miserably.  

One night she went to a party and to her surprise, the party was at Laura Harrell’s house, a girl in her class.  When she finds Laura, she brings her outside to the forest behind her house.  Laura takes her to a clearing in the forest and stops at an archway made by the trees.  In that archway, Zoë can see only an impossible blackness.  She could only come up with one explanation for it…another world.

Laura and her brother Alex had been coming to the city of Shattershard for about two and a half years and were a familiar site around the city.  They thought that they were helping the people outside the city, but they didn’t know that they were putting themselves, as well as the rest of the city of Shattershard, in great danger.

The author, Rhiannon Lassiter, does a great job of making the readers feel like they are in the city of Shattershard.  While she’s no J.K Rowling or J.R.R. Tolkien, she still has enough talent to captivate the readers and make them feel like they’re part of the story.  Ending with a big wet bang, she leaves the readers with a cliffhanger that will make all readers want the next book very badly.  It’s a great read and recommended for readers who like adventure with a hint of magic.