Lost in the Nether: An Unofficial Minecraft Adventure (Tales of an 8-Bit Kitten Series #1)

by Cube Kid

Overview

Best-selling author, Cube Kid, introduces readers to a kitten named Eeebs who lives some incredible adventures in the world of Minecraft. Fans of Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior will find some of the emblematic characters from this series in the Nether.

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Eeebs isn't a very disciplined kitten. His mom warned him not to play in the forest, but he didn't listen. That's how he found himself in the Nether, a bizarre world inhabited by scary creatures. In the company of a ghast, almost cheerful witch, Eeebs develops supernatural powers. Will this be enough to fight against Endernova's army, the Enderman, who want to rule over the Overworld? In order to save his friends, Eeebs must become the champion of the Nether, as the prophecy of The Chosen One tells . . .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781449494476
Publisher:	Andrews McMeel Publishing
Publication date:	09/18/2018
Series:	Tales of an 8-Bit Kitten Series , #1
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Cube Kid is the pen name of Eric Gunnar Taylor, a 33-year-old author who lives in Alaska. A fan of video games—and particularly Minecraft—he started writing fanfiction at a very young age. His first novel, The Diary of a Minecraft Villager, was self-published as an ebook in February 2015 and quickly became tremendously successful in the Minecraft community. The novel was acquired by the French publisher Édi8, and was published for the first time in France in February 2016 under the title LE JOURNAL D'UN NOOB, with new illustrations by Saboten. The Diary of a Minecraft Villager sparked worldwide interest. 
When he is not writing, Cube Kid loves travelling, fixing his car, voraciously reading fanfiction . . . and gaming!

Editorial Reviews

2018-07-24

When Eeebs the kitten gets lost in the Nether, his life changes forever.

Trapped by wolves while playing hide-and-seek with his friends Meowz and Tufty, Eeebs flees through a violet light and into the dark, foreboding Nether. He befriends a ghast named Clyde who, when a strange change overtakes Eeebs, carries the kitten to Eldra the witch. Eeebs learns he has received something called the Dark Blessing from the Nether (which is not evil, just darker than the Overworld), and Eeebs must use his new powers to help foil the plans of EnderStar, an enderman so evil he was expelled from the End by the other endermen. Success means finding other characters to fulfil the Prophecy of Minecraftia. With this outing, Minecraft fanfiction scribe Cube Kid kicks off a companion series to his Diary of an 8-bit Warrior books. It's more of the same: simplistic and rambling text squarely in the "at least they are reading" genre. Game tropes are clumsily jammed into a predictable quest tale with zero closure. Large print with arbitrarily boldfaced words meanders around colorful pixelated images drawn to look like the game, some with captions or callouts; it's easy, quick reading even for the distracted.

The plethora of young players might enjoy…no one else need bother. (Fantasy. 6-10)

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