Imagine the Harry Potter series. Now make them around 40 times more unrealistic. Now you have the Pendragon series!
The Pendragon series all revolve around a boy with the name of Bobby Pendragon. Now, Bobby thinks he's a normal boy, but he's not.
See, Bobby is a Traveler, a person who travels between 10 different universes that all have a planet with life on them. Each of the planets go through a 'turning point', a time when there's a challenge the citizens of the planet have to go through, whose result could change the future of the planet, for the better or the worst. The traveler has to go to each planet, through 'flumes', when it's in it's turning point, and try to lead the planet towards a better future. But that's not all. They also have to make sure Saint Dane, a very bad guy who wants to lead the planets to failure so he can control 'Halla'-everything that has, will, and is existing, doesn't succeed. It makes a lot more sense if you actually read the books.
When Bobby finds out that he's a traveler from his Uncle, who is also a traveler, and that his family never existed and that they're all gone, he freaks out. But as he works with Loor, his partner, and all the other travelers, he starts to realize that there are bigger things than basketball and having a normal life.
When his Uncle dies later, Bobby steps up as the leader, and eventually defeats Saint Dane.
The author switches the point of view very often from Bobby, to Mark and Courtney, Bobby's best friend and almost girlfriend.
Now, this probably sounds like the weirdest story ever, and you're probably wondering why I like it so much. I like it because the author, D.J. Machale, writes it so well, it feels like you're in the book as one of the characters. You get to escape reality for however long it takes you to read the series, and experience experiences you wouldn't anywhere else. And, it's so unrealistic, it's realistic...if that makes any sense.
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