Imagination: My New Fear

Pendragon: The Reality Bug (2003)
MacHale, D.J.
Science Fiction
9/10

Warning: There is Mild language, but no F-bombs

This is the fourth book in the series of the books PENDRAGON it is called The Reality Bug. Once again Bobby Pendragon is on the fight towards evil and has to save another territory. (If had ready the three other books you would know that Pendragon is where he has to go around and save things called Territories which are different places and even at different times.) In the other books he has went to second earth (where we live) Denduron, Cloral, Zadaa, First Earth (Earth in 1937), Third Earth (future earth), and now Veelox. When you get into the book it starts with Gunny (another traveler) and Pendragon coming out of the flume (the thing that takes them between territories). Then they face their enemy and the one who causes havoc through all the territories (tries to destroys them), Saint Dane.

Bobby and Gunny are blocking his way but they get tricked into letting him leave with realistic looking holograms of Saint Dane surrounding them. Then Gunny follows Saint Dane to another territory called Eelong. The adventure begins with Bobby, Veelox and the reality bug. Bobby gets to the territory and needs to find out what Saint Dane has done to tip the territory to its own demise. It turns out Bobby is not fighting something exactly physical he is fighting the imaginations of the people on Veelox.

The book shows is how it might be in our future. They have to fight the imaginations of people in the territory to hoping the y make the territory not fall to Saint Dane. It is hard to help people when all they want to do is be in their own alternate reality.

The style of the author of this book has kind of two points of view in some parts. It is in third person objective and others it is first person. He explains this book like it is actually teenagers talking or writing this book. He describes the types of things that would happen to these people.

He makes the references to junior and high school kids so I think that these books are meant to be read by junior or high school kids. I believe you could read it as an adult and still like it. It is the writing of a fifteen year old kid so I would stick with that main age group.