The Black (Morpheus Road) Review

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(More customer reviews)First thing's first: I love it when I can read a sequel out of order and not feel as though I'm missing most of the story by not having read the first book. THAT'S what will make me want to go out and buy the previous one, and, in this respect, The Black did not disappoint at all.
FIRST SENTENCE: This isn't what I expected death to be like.
Cooper Foley is dead. We know this because he tells us so right from the start. We then find out about The Black, the in-between place where some souls go while waiting to see if they continue their journey down Morpheus Road, or, if they're irredeemable, to The Blood. The Light is what they call the living world.
Souls in The Black are not supposed to visit The Light, they are only supposed to observe it. But Cooper, who was always in Trouble Town (his name for being in trouble) while he was living, doesn't change much after he's dead. You see, no one has found his body at the bottom of the lake yet, and Damon, an evil soul in The Black and former general in Alexander the Great's army, who has an army equipped with soul-killing swords, who actually was the cause of Coop's death, is harassing Coop's sister Sydney and his best friend Marshall, causing weird hallucinations and putting them in danger. All of this is to get Cooper to help him retrieve some artifacts that will allow Damon to live again and basically, well, you know, rule the world and all that.
Add in a mysterious neighbor named Maggie, who insists on helping Cooper, and Cooper's grandfather, who keeps telling Coop to stay out of it, oh! and the Watchers, who don't speak, and disappear when the souls try to speak to them, and you have a rollicking, irreverently good story, perfect for older middle readers, YA readers, and anyone else who likes a little fantasy, magic and other-worldliness.
All of which has caused me to put The Light (I believe it's the same story told from Marshall's point of view) on my own to-buy list.
QUOTE (from a galley; may be different in final copy):
"Damon scares me," Maggie said. "Maybe we should do what he wants."
"Can't"
"Why not?"
"Because he killed me. That kind of pi_ _es me off."


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At the end of The Light, Book One of the Morpheus Road trilogy, Marshall uncovered the truth about what happened to his best friend, Cooper. Now in Book Two, we get Cooper's perspective. What does his story have to do with Marshall and the journey along the Morpheus Road? It's time to learn more.... From a master of scary stories, The Black takes readers down a dark path of discovery and will leave them clamoring for the conclusion.

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