Benjamin Forrest and the School at the End of the World

I am looking forward to book 2 and 3 in this series. Benjamin and the rest of the characters are very likable and this is a story I want to continue reading about. I do work with children of all ages and enjoy finding books that preteen and middle school children will enjoy. This is a series for tha......more

Pacing was very off sometimes and felt very rushed. I liked the reveal of the face of the Dark Man and the machines where certainly interesting, the whole worldbuilding with "dead-not-yet-dead-undead" kind of thing, but... apart from that, too rushed.......more

This book just throws you into the middle of the story without much of a warning. Benjamin Forrest wakes up a beach and has no idea how he got there, and you don't know who he is. Then, the strange creatures of Endinfinium start to attack him, but a girl named Miranda saves him. He is forced to atte......more

Curious premise; awkward plot pacing Waking up in a bizarre world, which reminds me of the garbage incinerator in Star Wars combined with the Land of Misfit Toys, populated by ghouls, zombies, steampunk Frankenstein creatures, and semi-animated thrift-store-rejects is an interesting idea. The protago......more

"The rules here were different." Inevitably, The School at the End of the World will be likened to the Harry Potter books, given the school setting with strange, shifting bunderies, the trio of adventurers - Benjamin, Miranda and Wilhelm - an exterior, threatening Dark Lord, an actively hostile fello......more