"You are now a discard. We have no further use for you in play. You are free to walk the Bounds, but it will be against the rules for you to enter play in any world. If you succeed in returning Home, then you may enter play again in the normal manner." When Jamie unwittingly discovers the scary, dark-cloaked Them playing games with human's lives, he is cast out to the boundaries of the worlds. Only then does he discover that there are a vast number of parallel worlds, all linked by the bounds, and these sinister creatures are using them all as a massive gamesboard. Clinging to Their promise that if he can get Home he is free, he becomes the unwilling Random Factor in an endless game of chance.
What Did We Think?
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a nice pleasant read, and though intended for children had potential to be so much more, i feel that there were far to many ideas to assimilate, one big criticism of the story is the ending, which though excellent and a good twist to it felt like a child's own story where they have set out a great idea but time constraints mean that the ending was rushed and everyone went home for tea, would personally scored it as 4 for the ideas
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