This is a series geared for the YA crowd but only for those that have the stomach for the gore, the patience for a blurry reality, and the demeanor to handle lots of sex, violence, and vulgarity. Let me start by saying that this series to me is the Twilight / Hunger Games books for boys and for men. Something pulled me up, by my hand, like it was on a string.īen and Griffin, the Hunters, the wreckage in front of us, the endless scorched nothingness of Marbury, all of it began smearing together in the red light, melting, liquefying.” His mouth hung open, and when I lifted my hand in front of us, everything began to change, dissolve before our eyes like being back in that garage on the day I smashed the lens. Then the world went red, as if I were looking at it through a glass of wine.īen turned and stared at me. And as soon as he did, the boy whispered a hushed “What the fuck, Jack?” And even though the lens was dead to me now, I could still feel the heaviness it contained when Griffin placed the fragment onto my open palm. It wasn’t from gravity it came from something else wasn’t from gravity it came from something else altogether.

““There was always a peculiar weight to the Marbury lens. His story telling make reading a fun way to pass some time. Andrew Smith’s writing is both stylish and full of quality. You will reread parts as you go because you will want to pick up on the subtle nuances, the clues, and the repetition. Passenger, book two, blows away the first and expands everything in ways that will leave your head in a twisted up, messed up knot. I enjoyed tML book one in the series the first time I read it through, and I loved it after I reread it a week ago. You see I found that this series is so much like the amazing TV series Lost…including the main hero being named Jack. Now you hear our hear our narrator say, “Previously on Lost” ….images, images, images, action, killing, jump forward, jump backward, jump, ?, 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42… and then the crescendo, the massive crash of drum and bass. land, all of our returning heroes, Jack, Ben, Griffin, and Henry. And all the while our main protagonist Jack will be there, egging us on, messing with our mind, and pulling our strings… Fuck Jack! For those of you that have read the first book in the series, The Marbury Lens by Andrew Smith, this one, Passenger, will take you on a journey, an endless exploration, of the mind, and of the world.

Passenger by andrew smith