Review: Couldn"t put this series down!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 28, 2014
This series was full of action and great characters. I had read The Bonfire Academy series first but that wasn't a problem. My one complaint is that the "doppelgangers" of the two different dimensions weren't explained correctly. The theory goes that in each dimension there is a possibility that that a person exists in each one. Sort of like we see in Sci-Fi shows about alternate universes. Yet the author tried to explain the Stevens dimension using this theory when that isn't possible because the portal only connects to two dimensions. Once the portal was complete to connect the two dimensions and Olivia took herself and daughters from one dimension to the other there shouldn't have been any Olivia, Arizona, and Ella in that first dimension yet there was. I kept expecting an explanation for this.... such as the portal had caused them to split in two or something. Also from the books we know there was an Olivia in the second dimension as she stated that the Olivia in the second dimension divorced Dillard before she got pregnant with Arizona yet there was no effort to make sure the two Olivias didn't meet or any information about the Olivia that lives in that second dimension. Another problem is that Olivia met Rupert in the dimension she left to find him in the second dimension. The problem with that was that that dimension had no paranormals according to Stanford and Rupert couldn't have been there as he wasn't a Sigma-W at that time so couldn't have "wandered" to that dimension. As long as you can get past these inconsistencies the books are great. Not explaining them leaves one scratching there head but the books are otherwise wonderful and will keep you turning pages and not being able to stop reading.