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JANUARY 22, 2013
Read This! Passenger by Andrew Smith

Jack and Conner are drawn back to Marbury to rescue other friends and attempt to destroy the lens that transports them to the alternate world.

Passenger is the follow up to The Marbury Lens (2010) which is probably one of the weirdest, creepiest books I’ve read in a while. If you are a fan of realities nesting inside realities locked within realities that may or may not be the product of traumatic abductions and near death experiences, than this series is for you!

In Marbury Lens, Jack narrowly escapes imprisonment, torture and rape only to find himself in London with a pair of mysterious glasses which seem to transport him to an alternate reality where something terrible has happened to the earth and society. Both Jack and the reader share uncertainty about what is happening – is this a future reality? Is it a psychotic break? Did Jack fail to escape from his abductor after all and this terrible apocalyptic vision is really his survival fantasy?

Passenger brings us back to Marbury for more: more horror, more insanely dark and demented uncertainty, more graphic and disturbing images (not to mention f-bombs! Yikes!). It is a challenging read, a compelling story and something you will think about a long time after you set the book down.

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