Beyonders The Complete Set (Boxed Set): A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy

Fabulously entertaining! As I did with my daughter when she was a teenager, I am trying to read books with my son. This goal is challenging and growing me as a reader. In other words, I'm trying a new genre: Sci-fi/Fantasy. To pursue this goal, I bought the well-reviewed boxed set of the Beyonders trilogy by NY Times best-selling author Brandon Mull. My son read through it so quickly that he finished the entire trilogy before I even began the first book. That's how much he loved it. He's a sixteen-year- old obsessive gamer who took time away from his games to read this series.

The main character, Jason Walker, is an average teenage kid who falls into a hippo tank at his volunteer job and is magically transported to the world of Lyrian. The jaws of a hippo serve as the magic portal. Quite funny, right off the bat. Then there are riddles to be solved, dangerous characters to avoid, the appearance of another Beyonder (people from Earth)in the form of a teenage home-schooled girl named Rachel and a heroic quest.

One of the first people that he meets is the Loremaster (a librarian). Then there is the displacer, one of a breed of characters that can attach and unattach his head, hands, and other parts at will. Disgusting but also handy. Edomic is the language of creation spoken only by the wizards (of which there is apparently only one left and he is evil).

Vocabulary words:

Traversing
Auditory
Aperture
Frieze

Funny quote: Jason was "relieved to have found an actual, non-furious person" (p. 35).

Interesting image: "It looked ready to topple at a cough from a butterfly" (p. 77).

Philosophy: "People find meaning where they can" (p. 82).

For discussion: What makes a hero? Why does the world need heroes?

"Heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences" (p. 110).

"For each of us destiny is a blend of potential, circumstances, and choices. You could flee and hide. You could bargain with Maldor. You have chosen a heroic path. Walk it without apology" (p. 326).

"Yet here you are, toiling in the wilderness,"..."the two of you picked the right road, even though it is the most difficult. This is the essence of heroism" (p. 326).

This is one of those books that may have been written for children and teens but will appeal to adults as well. Perfect for reading together as a family.

My husband and I both loved the complete set. We also enjoyed Brandon Mull's Fablehaven series. They are clean, action packed books.

I'm not sure how to be fair on this one since I did read the first two and they did pull me through. It's weird though how I hardly remember them and I simply didn't look forward to the future installments enough to read them as they were released. The writing was good, I can't think of any one thing that really killed it for me. I'm thinking it was just that I personally didn't identify with the characters enough. I can't even remember their names (I read the second one a year or two ago.) I loved fable haven but this series just didn't grab me. I'm giving it 3 stars because it really is well written but not 4 or 5 because it lacks at least for me the ability to hold my interest from one book to the next.

I've read this trilogy before, and I love it so much. I'd decided that I wanted the trilogy, so I went on here and got the boxed set.
Or, what I'd thought was the boxed set.
It arrived and I opened the box, excited. I was fully expecting the nice, hardcover boxed set as was advertised. I was at first a bit wary as the box looked less than up to par as an amazon box usually looks. It appeared to be a ThermoFisher box (whatever that is).
I opened it up and lo and behold, they were all hardcover. But they weren't a boxed set... it was all three books, except they weren't new. The first one was signed and had clearly been read a few times (not complaining there), the second one is a library copy with a note inside of it and has been certainly well read, and the third has a sticker in the upper hand left corner of the dust cover.
I love the books, but it isn't what I expected.

Using the customer reviews as a gauge, I thought my 8 year old grandson would enjoy this box set. He enjoys other series, such as the Magic Treehouse by Mary Pope Osborne, but this was way above his level.

This was not a nice surprise. It only showed the autograph of the author. If I had known this page was there I wouldn’t have bought this. The last thing I want in my collection is something with red writing in my book.

I've bought all of his books! I believe the five kingdoms will be my favorite, still on book 3.

The packaging was great, books are in great condition

These are my favourite books! I absolutely loved everything in the books. I also liked other series of Brandon Mull, but this is by far the best. I am very sad there are only three books and i wished for more. It was an amazing story. If you like fantasy you have to read this series.

Good books, great price, fast shipping

Good books, great price, fast shipping