- Paperback: 372 pages
- Publisher: Harperteen; Reprint edition (Dec 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060724854
- ISBN-13: 978-0060724856
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 12.7 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,535,920 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Michael Lawrence's trilogy is a spine-tingling thriller about parallel worlds. These are brilliant, thought-provoking novels...about grief, responsibility and choice." The Times "The complexity of the storyline is not something that many authors could successfully handle: however Lawrence has written with a truly cunning hand." Independent on Sunday"
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It's now October, four months on from the events in Small Eternities - Naia and Alaric desperately seek answers and resolutions.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
There are three books in this series which deal with multiple alternative versions of reality. All the realities have slight differences from one another, and all of them revolve around the same old house and its surroundings. The first book, "A Crack in the Line" is highly readable and very interesting, describing how the main character is a boy in one reality, and a girl in the other. Most aspects of their lives are the same, with a few extremely important and significant differences. The second book in the trilogy was very confusing, as the numbers of realities multiplied. I was so baffled by it that it took me a while to get around to reading "The Underwood See" which is the third book. And, at first, I confess I was pretty mystified by that too - and it would have been even more mystifying if I haven't read the other two - and yet it turned out to be a gripping and absolutely fascinating book which I eventually found almost impossible to put down. I am still not sure I remember who all the characters are - and they change in different realities anyway - but actually you have to let go of the individual "characters" and look at how the larger sweep of the story develops in order to get an impression of how the author is thinking. This is really not a book for the lover of uncomplicated fantasy or adventure, but if you are up to a bit of a challenge and decide to read the book, my suggestion would be that you start with "A Crack in the Line", as this establishes most of the basic concepts. This is published on a children's list. I suppose it's not quite an adult book - "crossover" is I believe the term. I don't see why teenagers should not love it as much as adults do. After all, you don't have to understand every detail of everything in order to enjoy it, and that applies whatever your age. If I have not offered a useful plot synopsis I apologise - but read the book and you will understand why this is so!
Format:Hardcover
I found this book of all 3 was by far the easiest to get into and it tied up all the loose ends left from the second book. It unearthed a different view on life where it makes you think about concequences of actions and how this affects the future. I would definately recommend this book. 9/10.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Not as Good as the First Two, But . . .
28 Mar 2007
Format:Hardcover
After reading the first two books in the Withern Rise trilogy, I was quite excited to read the third. I bought it the day it came out and read it in two nights. But while I certainly enjoyed it, it was not as good as the first two.
What I mostly didn't like was that it lost the spirit of "A Crack in the Line" and "Small Eternities". In these two, there was more of a plot. The characters were trying to figure out what was going on, and you speculated along with them. They also seemed more realistic. But "The Underwood See" loses a lot of these qualities. Too much of the book is given to Aldous U.'s explanations of how the realms work. The plot takes a backseat. There are so many realities and characters (some of them different versions of the same person) that it can get confusing. Also, the book loses the realism that the first two had. It starts using alternate realities as explanations for things like UFOs, and it just gets a little too incredible, a little too sci-fi. This would be fine for another book, but it doesn't fit the mood of the first two. The author tries too hard to explain his thoughts on realities, and doesn't let the characters (or the readers) ponder them for themselves.
Still, it was an exciting conclusion, and the theories the author present leave you with a sense of awe. They're fun to think about, and they can freak you out a little (but in a good way). And the ending is good. All in all, I would recommend "The Underwood See", just don't expect it to be as good as the first two.
What I mostly didn't like was that it lost the spirit of "A Crack in the Line" and "Small Eternities". In these two, there was more of a plot. The characters were trying to figure out what was going on, and you speculated along with them. They also seemed more realistic. But "The Underwood See" loses a lot of these qualities. Too much of the book is given to Aldous U.'s explanations of how the realms work. The plot takes a backseat. There are so many realities and characters (some of them different versions of the same person) that it can get confusing. Also, the book loses the realism that the first two had. It starts using alternate realities as explanations for things like UFOs, and it just gets a little too incredible, a little too sci-fi. This would be fine for another book, but it doesn't fit the mood of the first two. The author tries too hard to explain his thoughts on realities, and doesn't let the characters (or the readers) ponder them for themselves.
Still, it was an exciting conclusion, and the theories the author present leave you with a sense of awe. They're fun to think about, and they can freak you out a little (but in a good way). And the ending is good. All in all, I would recommend "The Underwood See", just don't expect it to be as good as the first two.
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