Morpheus Road, Book 2
Written by D. J. MacHale
Aladdin, 2011
$17.99, ages 12 and up, 416 pages
A murderous spirit will stop at nothing to find a medieval battle-ax and wreak havoc on the Light, the land of the living, in this thrill-ride-of-a-book, the second in the popular Morpheus Road trilogy.
In this clever followup, author D. J. MacHale replays the events of the first book through the eyes of Marshall Seaver's dead friend Cooper Foley and reveals how those events were shaped from the Black, a weigh station for the dead on their final journey to the hereafter.
Cooper, who drowned in the first book The Light, arrives in the Black to discover he's entered a place of redemption, where dead people can make amends for mistakes they made in life. Whether they choose to better themselves determines whether they get to move on or they're condemned to oblivion.
There, he discovers that he can return to visions of his home as he remembers it, but no one who is still alive will be there with him, only those who are dead. He sees Gramps, his late grandfather, who has his own troubles to work through, and quickly discovers tensions brewing in the Black.
