**This review is from the Monster Librarian archives.**
ISBN:9781425980726
Available: New
In an extra dimensional space a powerful young lady by the name of Pandora resides. Pandora, seek to remake a plane of existence called The Void to suit her wishes. In order to do so she captures people from our world who have a special gift to alter the makeup of the void. They are called “makers” Pandora has almost all of the makers she needs except for a young school girl with a very active imagination named Lucy. In addition one of Pandora’s makers has escaped into the Void, a boy named Billy, who is a mute in the regular world but had found his voice in the Void. In this first book of the planned trilogy Billy must rescue Lucy as she finds herself in Pandora’s clutches. Into the Void is an ambitious start to a fantasy trilogy, Teachout uses traditional monsters with some of his own creation to round out his world. The drawback to the story is that there is missing backstory on Pandora with bits and hints strewn through out the book that she always wasn’t so evil and ambitious and that she has been wronged in some way but we never find out by who or how. Over all book has good pacing and is very readable and the author lets his imagination flex as he develops the void. Contains: violence resulting in death, gun play. blackmail.