You
can’t simply do nothing. You must fix things. The Kings’
haven’t been able to relax since they moved into the giant Victorian mansion
just a week or so ago. House of Dark
Shadows, the first book in the series, set the stage for the Kings: a house
with portals to other worlds and other times. The story progresses throughout
the next three books in the series (Watcher
in the Woods, Gatekeepers, and Timescape) as the Kings’ learn more
about their house and face the danger that comes along with it. Warning! If you
haven’t read the previous books in this series, you will need to do so before
reading Whirlwind.
Whirlwind
starts off in a hurry and stays at a breakneck pace. For the Kings’ and Keal,
their mission is no longer just to find Mom but also save the entire planet. They’ve
been through a portal that showed them the future, and things aren’t good. But
Jesse tells them the real purpose of the portals, the responsibility of being a
Gatekeeper. You can’t simply do nothing.
You must fix things.
Set to fulfill that purpose, Whirlwind takes Xander and
David on their wildest ride yet – where the way history is written depends on
their actions. Time is winding down, Taksidian is drawing nearer, the forces of
evil are bent upon controlling the King house for its own purposes, and the
Kings can barely hold up under the strain.
Robert Liparulo continues to surprise and amaze with
the DreamHouse Kings series. One
would think after five books, the story of the house would be told and it would
be reduced to Xander, David, and gang chasing and being chased through
different times in different worlds; but Liparulo continues to add more to the
storyline, slowly revealing more and more about the nature of house, the significance
of the King family, and the personified evil of Taksidian who pursues them.
New worlds are accompanied with new revelations,
which only serve to heighten the suspense and prepare us for the series’ climax
in the upcoming May release, Frenzy. Whirlwind
is a blast, from start to finish. The stories just keep getting better
as Liparulo layers in more backstory and additional twists. Now I can only sit
and twitch, anticipating the finale to come.
1 comments:
Yup.
I'm also anxious for Robert's next adult novel.
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