Reviewed by Theresa L. Stowell for TeensReadToo.com
The last three years of Alfonso Perplexon's life have been quiet. In fact, his life has been almost too calm. Ever since he returned to World's End, Minnesota, from saving his father's home country of Dormia, he has been "normal."
However, that's all about to change. When a group of students from his high school visits the catacombs in Paris, his sleepwalking abilities reawaken, and he is thrust into a new mystery.
The pull of the Founding Tree first leads Alfonso to a hexagonal hole under Paris, where he meets another sleeper from Dormia and is told about a dark force that may be rising. Later, while sleeping, he stows away aboard a Romanian ship heading to Egypt.
Slowly and inextricably, Alfonso is being drawn back into the affairs of Dormia. This time, there is a stronger link to his father, whom everyone believes is dead. When a Dragoonya guard tells Alfonso that the Dormians have imprisoned his father, Alfonso has no choice but to find out why.
Readers who enjoyed the first book in the DORMIA series will once again relish following along on Alfonso's globe-hopping adventures. Halpern and Kujawinski introduce a variety of new characters this time around, but also bring back many of the lovable cast from the first book.
WORLD'S END is a well-written book with a complex plot, exotic settings, and a likeable group of misfit characters.
The last three years of Alfonso Perplexon's life have been quiet. In fact, his life has been almost too calm. Ever since he returned to World's End, Minnesota, from saving his father's home country of Dormia, he has been "normal."
However, that's all about to change. When a group of students from his high school visits the catacombs in Paris, his sleepwalking abilities reawaken, and he is thrust into a new mystery.
The pull of the Founding Tree first leads Alfonso to a hexagonal hole under Paris, where he meets another sleeper from Dormia and is told about a dark force that may be rising. Later, while sleeping, he stows away aboard a Romanian ship heading to Egypt.
Slowly and inextricably, Alfonso is being drawn back into the affairs of Dormia. This time, there is a stronger link to his father, whom everyone believes is dead. When a Dragoonya guard tells Alfonso that the Dormians have imprisoned his father, Alfonso has no choice but to find out why.
Readers who enjoyed the first book in the DORMIA series will once again relish following along on Alfonso's globe-hopping adventures. Halpern and Kujawinski introduce a variety of new characters this time around, but also bring back many of the lovable cast from the first book.
WORLD'S END is a well-written book with a complex plot, exotic settings, and a likeable group of misfit characters.
