{"id":6181,"date":"2019-01-29T11:46:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T15:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=6181"},"modified":"2019-01-29T11:46:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T15:46:37","slug":"book-review-thomas-wildus-and-the-book-of-sorrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/book-review-thomas-wildus-and-the-book-of-sorrows\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Thomas Wildus and the Book of Sorrows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Thomas-Wildus-Book-Sorrows-Bergen\/dp\/1732457808\/ref=as_li_ss_il?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1548776712&amp;sr=1-1&amp;linkCode=li3&amp;tag=monstlibra0f1-20&amp;linkId=a02f74e48ce5433ec524547772a9c2ef&amp;language=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=1732457808&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=monstlibra0f1-20&amp;language=en_US\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=monstlibra0f1-20&amp;language&lt;a href=\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=monstlibra0f1-20&amp;language=en_US&amp;l=li3&amp;o=1&amp;a=1732457808\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Thomas Wildus and the Book of Sorrows\u00a0<\/em>by J.M. Bergen<\/p>\n<p>Elandrian Press, 2018<\/p>\n<p>ISBN-13: 978-1732457805<\/p>\n<p>ISBN-10: 1732457808<\/p>\n<p>Available: Paperback, Kindle edition<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMagic is real, Thomas\u201d.\u00a0 Those were the last words Thomas Wildus\u2019 father said to him.\u00a0\u00a0Thomas is a geeky, mischievous, bullied, preteen, whose father disappeared several years ago.\u00a0 He loves to read books about magic, but doesn\u2019t realize that real magic is in his DNA.<\/p>\n<p>Then, mysterious strangers seek to develop his magical potential by giving him the <em>Book<\/em> <em>of<\/em> <em>Sorrows<\/em>.\u00a0 The <em>Book,<\/em> written thousands of years ago, describes the existence of good and evil, light and dark forces.\u00a0 Thomas is whisked far away from southern California to a stone fortress, where he is given a crash course in skills like summoning and teleportation.\u00a0 He is the last defense against a dark sorcerer who seeks the power to control the world\u2019s destiny.\u00a0 Thomas and his friends face off against the sorcerer and his henchmen in a cave in the Amazonian jungle.<\/p>\n<p>The author\u2019s third-person narrative is direct and clear.\u00a0 He skillfully captures a preteen\u2019s corny sense of humor, shyness, sympathy for the underdog, loyalty to friends and insatiable appetite for food.\u00a0 The book is appropriate for young readers and older readers who remember what it was like to be a preteen.\u00a0 It is the first of a series of books about Thomas Wildus. Readers who enjoyed the\u00a0<em>Harry Potter\u00a0<\/em>series will enjoy\u00a0<em>Thomas Wildus and the Book of Sorrows.\u00a0<\/em>Highly recommended<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Contains: Not applicable<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by Robert D.\u00a0 Yee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Wildus and the Book of Sorrows\u00a0by J.M. Bergen Elandrian Press, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-1732457805 ISBN-10: 1732457808 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition &nbsp; \u201cMagic is real, Thomas\u201d.\u00a0 Those were the last words Thomas Wildus\u2019 father said to him.\u00a0\u00a0Thomas is a geeky, mischievous, bullied, preteen, whose father disappeared several years ago.\u00a0 He loves to read books about magic,<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/book-review-thomas-wildus-and-the-book-of-sorrows\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[460,3062,2190,2407,3629],"class_list":["post-6181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adventure-fiction","tag-coming-of-age-stories","tag-contemporary-fantasy","tag-middle-grade-fiction","tag-thomas-wildus-and-the-book-of-sorrows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6185,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6181\/revisions\/6185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}