Leven Thumps and the Eyes of the Want

Book three in the Leven Thumps series.

3 is an odd number. Not in the mathematical, odd man out way, but in the I am different kind of way. 3 just sits there, rocking back and forth between 2 and 4, sortof like a bridge between the two numbers. And when three comes in the form of the third book of a series, odd becomes somewhat confusing. Confusing in the I'm not quite sure where this book is going sense. Maybe what 3 is doing in this case is bridging book 2 and book 4 because I am not sure that it did much else.

I like Leven Thumps. I like the way Obert Skye writes. I like that there is a place called Foo where dreams really do exist. I like that by now, when Obert tells us that the trees got up and moved, we believe it because after all this is the land where dreams live and we all know that in dreams, anything is possible.

What I didn't like about this book of the series is this:

*Clover very rarely made and appearance and when he did, he was mostly invisible and quiet.

*the chapters with Janet. I have no clue what they were doing in the book other than making it longer and taking up space. Maybe they would have felt left out if they had been (left out I mean) and Mr. Skye didn't want to hurt their feelings that way.

*Each chapter felt unfinished to me. It was almost as if a thought was started and then it piddled out before it could complete itself.

*Those chapters that were allowed to complete themselves were mostly about Leven and mostly spent inside Leven's head- too much telling, not enough showing.

I really like Obert Skye's writing style and I like the way he describes things. He is able to give you a visual in a way that you never thought about before, but you get it immediately. But this book really did feel like a filler book, in order to get from point A to point B you have to wade through stuff and you have to know stuff and this book is the stuff book. I am hoping that's what it is, anyway. I would hate to think that with all that is going on in Foo, that Mr. Skye's attention is wandering away.

Here is what is written on Shadow Mountain's web page about the series:

Foo-the place between the possible and the impossible-is a realm inside the minds of each of us that allows mankind the power to hope and imagine and dream. The powerfully gifted Leven Thumps, once an ordinary fourteen-year-old boy from Oklahoma, has been retrieved from Reality and sent to stop those in Foo who are nurturing dark dreams and plan to invade and rule Reality.

At the end of book two, with the help of Leven, Geth was restored from a toothpick to his former self, a great lithen who travels by fate. Winter suffered the loss of her gift—the power to freeze things. Will her new vulnerability be too much to bear? Leven was attacked by the Whispered Secret, and now the Secret has escaped, ready to tell the whole of Foo how sycophants die. Will Leven find Clover before it’s too late?

Hold on to your popcorn! In book three, the war to unite Foo and Reality has begun. Not only must Leven race across Foo to stop the Secret before the deadly truth is revealed, he must travel to the island of Lith, the home of the Want—the manic dreammaster who can give Leven the gifts he needs against a foreboding army of rants and other Foo beings.

If you are willing and have the courage, you’re invited for the next adventure in book three, Leven Thumps and the Eyes of the Want. Travel to Sycophant Run, survive the Lime Sea, and discover a new gateway to Foo and a threat beneath the soil. The fooseeable adventure will keep Foo fans captivated and wanting more!

Captivated, not so sure. Wanting more, definately, but only if it explains why book 3 was left wanting. (no pun inteneded)