The Six (The Gateway Chronicles #1)

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K B Hoyle

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The Writer's Coffee Shop

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13+

Release Date

October 05, 2012

ISBN

978-1612130521

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Darcy Pennington hates her life. She is an insufferably average teenager with no real friends, crushing social anxiety, and an indescribable sense of not fitting in anywhere. Then a change in her dad's job forces her to attend Cedar Cove Family Camp where she once again finds herself on the outside of a social circle. After unwittingly stumbling through a magical gateway to a new world called Alitheia, Darcy begins to realize there might be a higher purpose for her life, and she eventually convinces the other five teenagers to travel there with her. Once there, they learn the "arrival of the Six" was prophesied hundreds of years before, and that they must expel an ancient evil from the land. Will Darcy have what it takes to save Alitheia? Or will she fall prey to a deadly foe?

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Highly Enjoyable, Well-written, & Captured My Interest

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Darcy Pennington is a typical thirteen-year-old girl. I remember what that was like. In fact, at that very same age, my family was undergoing job changes, and my life just felt out-of-control and I wasn't happy about any of the changes that came our way. I was moody, cranky, went into funks, and was just plain nasty at times. Though the situations aren't always the same, that moody, selfishness is pretty much par for the course for thirteen-year-olds. They drive most parents and teachers crazy, and yet we still love them. (Though I have to say that it's always awesome when the teen grows out of that! LOL!)

Darcy stumbled upon a gateway in the middle of the forest. From gnomes to fairies to dryads to narks (I love narks!) to humans, Darcy suddenly finds herself in a parallel world where magic exists and a very dark force has long since taken control. There is a prophecy that involves Darcy and her other five companions and they go off on an adventure in Alitheia.

Does this prophecy then make Darcy change and grow overnight? Absolutely not. She is still a selfish thirteen-year-old girl who makes stupid decisions. Those stupid decisions are, after all, part of what make her a believable thirteen-year-old girl. I wanted to smack the girl upside the head on more than one occasion. On the other hand, I also wanted to smack some of the adults upside the head. They weren't sure how to deal with a group of thirteen-year-olds either and they made some equally dumb decisions. And really, fallible characters are largely what helps to make a well-rounded story.

However, as the story goes along, the teenagers do begin to grow. Not too much too fast, but just enough to be believable. And by the time I reached the end of the book, I was searching through my book list for book 2.

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This story reminds me of The Chronicles of Narnia in many aspects. I, personally, am not a fan of that series. However, all of the things that I disliked about The Chronicles of Narnia, K.B. Hoyle avoided in The Gateway Chronicles. For one, the story is chronological. And there aren't huge jumps in time with all brand new characters in the magical world, for another. This series was easier to follow and the characters captured me more. It almost felt like someone picked my brain and said, "What did you not like?" And then fixed it all into something I would.