The Light (Morpheus Road Series #1)

Morpheus Road: The Light

The Light by DJ McHale Is The First Book In The Morpheus Road Trilogy. This Book Is An Awesome Read! I Was Hooked By Chapter 2. The Main Charater Is Marsh. The Book Begins With Marsh Speaking About The Prior Week And What's Happening Now. His Father Goes On A Business Trip And His Best Friend Goes Missing. The Story Begins Rather Slow But Picks Up Really Quickly In a Mind-Boggling Race. I'm Still Trying To Find Out What Morpheus Road Is, Although That Information Will Probably Be Revealed When The Other Two Books Are Released. Spooky things Begin Happening in His Home That He Can't Seem To Understand Or Explain. Marshall Invents An Imaginary Character, Gravedigger, Who Comes To Life Before His Eyes. Thrilling Horror Hides In Every Page As Marsh Trys To Find Out Where His Best Friend Coop Has Gone And Why Gravedigger Seems To Be After Him. This Book Is Like Encyclopedia Brown Meets The TV Show Supernatural. The Ending Took Quite A Turn And Was Told From Another Character's Narration, Which Is Awesome! This Book Locked Me In And Kept Me On Edge! I Believe It Will Keep You On Edge Too!

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An UnenLIGHTening Disappointment

I am a fan of D. J. MacHale; I've read all 10 of his Pendragon books and basically grew up on him. However, I found Morpheus Road: The Light to be highly disappointing. First of all, Marshall Seaver is basically Mark Dimond's twin brother. I loved the Pendragon references, they were clever, but come on, D. J. Invent a new character, please! I could relate all of the characters in this book to ones from Pendragon. Marshall was Mark, Sydney was Loor, Gravedigger was Saint Dane...the comparisons were way too obvious. Secondly, the plot went NOWHERE. N-O-W-H-E-R-E. I was waiting for something interesting to happen the whole time. I understand the idea of "plot twists" or "new directions," but that does not mean throw in random things just for the sake of being creative. Many of the sub-scenes made no sense in Marshall's character development (which, incidentally, there was none of). My personal favorite line went something like this: "Everything that had happened didn't matter anymore." Mind you, this was on page 300-something, near the book's end. Basically, it was D. J.'s way of saying that the whole first book doesn't really matter; he just felt like taking you for a ride. Fun stuff, D. J. Next time, please focus on plot and character development like you did in Pendragon. Thanks!

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Beast

Great book!!!!!!

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Anonymous

I loved this book. It was one of my favorite books ever! I would stay up late at night reading and my mom would yell at me to go to sleep. This book is a page turning thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat. Once you start reading you cant stop. When you get to the end, you just wamt more and wish that it didnt stop there.........

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Hospital

This book slowed my heart rate down. Its that good.

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Awesome

This book is amazing and sad

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Amazing

This book was very interesting and suspenseful. I really loved it. I wish they could've gave a little more details about some of the characters in the book, but other than that, it was a fantastic book.

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Slow start

Marshall Seaver (anyone but me hearing the Growing Pains theme song in their heads when the name Seaver is mentioned?) is an ordinary good guy type of sixteen-year-old; he's the Luke Skywalker to his best friend Cooper Foley's Han Solo. Cooper's a troublemaker who's mostly interested in chasing girls, while Marsh is a kid at heart, and still interested in building rocket ships and reading graphic novels. The only girl who captures Marsh's attention is Cooper's older sister Sydney, a beautiful high-achieving ice princess who won't give him the time of day.

Marshall is an everyman character, but two things about him stand out: 1. his mother was killed in a earthquake overseas while she was photographing an ancient temple, and 2. He's an amateur artist who draws only one character: Gravedigger, a grim reaper character who resembles a skeleton and carries around a double-edged pick. When Marsh breaks an artifact his mother sent him, and Cooper suddenly disappears, a whole world of trouble opens up and Marsh will never be a normal kid again.

DJ MacHale's credits include a lot of television writing, and it shows in his story, which has snappy dialogue and interesting visual images. Unfortunately, this first book in the series feels more like a pilot episode in a new TV show--I just don't think enough actually happens to sustain an entire book. It gets a slow start, with Marshall getting about a dozen hints that something's not quite right in his world before anything significant occurs. He hears strange noises, sees gusts of wind in his kitchen, gets mysterious phone calls, and sees a manifestation of his character Gravedigger, all as part of the setup before the true action begins. I think all the warning signs could have been condensed without losing much of the impact.

I won't be continuing this series, but the author's writing style in engrossing enough that I'm definitely going to check out his Pendragon books.

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Katie

Awesome book like for real. Total thumbs up...

I really havent read a book like this. It was unique and action

I really havent read a book like this. It was unique and action packed enough that i kept on faithfully reading it. very good!

Awesome

This book is freaking awesome i think this series will be better than the hunger games!

SPOILER!!!

SPOILER!!! Light is Kira.

One of the best books ever

I very rarly read abook all the way through unless ots good. I managed to read this from cover to cover in two days. I might have gotton in trouble during school but who cares! IT WAS AWESOME!!

Question

Is there guna be some weird sister love gettin on and poppin or is there gunna be a girlfriend.

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Awesome

Awesome and amazing

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Addicted

Master of suspense D.J. MacHale is back after his ny times best selling series Pendragon. When Marshall Seaver's best friend Cooper goes missing, the haunting begins. Is it his imagination or somethong far more sinister? When fate slams unlikely friends Marsh and Sydney (Cooper's "ice witch" older sister) together, the begin the hunt for the truth of what really happened to Cooper on that lake in Thistledown, but are they going to like the truth?i never said they would. But the real question is will they survive the hauntings that are steadily getting deadlyer as well as more frequent?Find out the truth in this epic hunt, complete with cover to cover suspense. (Warning; does cuss, so not for ages 10 and under) wether you are a loyal dj fan or not, this book is the right choice.

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I Loved This Book

DJ Machale does not disappoint. I was scared that after the Pendragon series, I would not be impressed with this new line of books... I was wrong. Simply incredible story that may take away from your life outside of reading this book! If you're going to purchase this, make sure you're going to have time to read it!

Great book

I love this book best book ive ever read love the plot and suspense 5 stars

The light

Best book ever i cant wait to read the second!!!

AWESOME

One of the best books I have ever read.