Olivia Kinsey is from New York City and has been spending the summer with her mother on Pemberwick Island. Kent is often hostile and bullying towards Tucker who isn't as athletic as the linebacker. There's Kent Berringer, a junior who plays middle linebacker on the school football team and whose parents own the nicest hotel, The Blackbird, on Pemberwick Island. Tucker's family moved from Greenwich, Connecticut after his father who was a civil engineer, lost his job, while Quinn's parents who are ER doctors moved from Philadephia to enjoy a less stressful work life.īesides Tucker and Quinn, several other people round out their circle of friends. Both Tucker and Quinn are transplants to Pemberwick Island. The cast of characters includes fourteen year old Tucker Pierce and his best friend, Quinn Carr. The novel is set on (fictional) idyllic Pemberwick Island off the coast of Maine. It's smooth, with thrilling pulses of adventure set at exactly the right points to keep the reader moving along. SYLO, a novel about a group of teens trying to uncover the mysterious situation developing on their island, reads like a well written television script. The relationships don't go beyond kissing.MacHale is both a well known television producer and children's author, having written the Pendragon series as well as the Morpheus Road trilogy. "SYLO" has some mild language and some violence. Readers who become angry when a story doesn't actually end and leaves more unanswered questions than answers may want to wait until all three books come out before starting this one. Those who liked the Maze Runner series or who just like a fast-paced exciting young-adult mystery novel will probably like this book. In short, he's taken the classic whodunnit, told it through the voice of a 14-year-old and expanded it to three books but rather than making the reader ask "who did it?" he forces the reader to ask "what in the world is going on?" … My challenge to readers is to recognize these clues and piece them together, along with Tucker, to try to get to the ultimate truth." "Readers should be aware that there are plenty of clues scattered throughout 'SYLO' that point to the larger story and the truth about what is actually happening. With this first book of a planned three-book series, MacHale issues a challenge to his readers. With the love triangle complete and the mysterious and hostile military law ruling the residents of Pemberwick, Tucker and his best friend Quinn are thrown into the roles of investigator, spy, rescuer and escape artist all in the course of just a few days. military called SYLO, Tucker's peaceful life on Pemberwick Island quickly erupts into an explosion of intrigue, lies and suspicion that veers far away from normalcy.īut even amid all the bizarre events that rudely intrude on Tucker's life, he manages to find himself facing the same issues any other 14-year-old might face: how to talk to, flirt with and attract girls - two in particular, Tori and Olivia. Between the strange man that tries to sell Tucker a new performance-enhancing drug, the several unexplainable deaths of islanders and the sudden and the strange government takeover of the island by a branch of the U.S. Through the eyes, ears and voice of Tucker Pierce, a 14-year-old freshman football player, MacHale plots a complicated story set on tiny Pemberwick Island off the coast of Maine in present day America. MacHale, who penned the Pendragon series, begins another book series with the young adult novel "SYLO." From the opening lines to the very last page, MacHale keeps readers flailing in a hazy fog of mystery while skillfully zipping them along through an exciting plot at breakneck speed. MacHale, Razorbill, $17.99, 416 pages (f) (ages 14 and up)
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