The Hour of the Gate (The Spellsinger Adventures)

Paperback, 338 pages

Published April 29, 2014 by Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy.

ISBN:
978-1-4976-0173-4
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3 stars (1 review)

Another adventure in the Spellsinger series. Marooned in another universe, a young American musician leads a motley army in battle against an enemy that threatens to destroy their world and ours Jon-Tom just wanted to go home. Trapped in a world where animals speak and magic is real, the American college student yearned for an ordinary dorm-room life. But here his music has magical power-even if he can't control it-which may be able to save the world from the army of the Plated Folk, whose sinister queen plans on killing and eating every warm-blooded mammal she can get her pincers on and taking over their lands. The great battle is coming, and Jon-Tom, whose posse includes a wizarding turtle, a cowardly bat, and an otter with a filthy mind, must raise an army to fight it. To find allies they must make an impossible journey, across mountains and rivers no …

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Review of 'Spellsinger #02' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Picks up where the previous book leaves off and finishes the story; it wouldn't stand alone. Good characters grow from caricatures, and the protagonist experiences much growth. I must have read at least one more of these as a kid, because I haven't found the reference to the Sloop John B yet. Same rating as the first book.

This is a good stopping point; will likely reread the third book after I polish off a few of the twenty other series I haven't finished yet.