A World Without Heroes
2011 • 457 pages
Ratings12
Average rating3.9
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Ratings12
Average rating3.9
Jason Walker has often wished his life could be a bit less predictable--until a routine day at the zoo ends with Jason suddenly transporting from the hippo tank to a place unlike anything he's ever seen. In the past, the people of Lyrian welcomed visitors from the Beyond, but attitudes have changed since the wizard emperor Maldor rose to power. The brave resistors who opposed the emperor have been bought off or broken, leaving a realm where fear and suspicion prevail.
In his search for a way home, Jason meets Rachel, who was also mysteriously drawn to Lyrian from our world. With the help of a few scattered rebels, Jason and Rachel become entangled in a quest to piece together the word of power that can destroy the emperor, and learn that their best hope to find a way home will be to save this world without heroes.
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**Books in this series**
1. A World Without Heroes
2. [Seeds of Rebellion][2]
3. [Chasing the Prophecy][3]
[2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17197215W
[3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17553159W
Series
3 primary booksBeyonders is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2011 with contributions by Brandon Mull.
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I had to stop in the middle to read Insurgent, but all in all I enjoyed this book. I realized near the end that it was similar to the Fablehaven series in the “scavenger hunt” nature of the plot. It is a book targeted at a little younger audience than most of my recent “young adult” reads, but that is a nice change of pace sometimes. It's a bit more innocent. I liked the “other world” and “beyond” setting, had a slight Narnian quality to it in that way.
