Escape from the Past: The Kidby Annette Oppenlander
Genre: YA Historical Fiction, Time-Travel
Release Date: February 26th 2016
Summary from Goodreads:
Time-traveling gamer, Max, embarks on a harrowing journey through the Wild West of 1881! After a huge fight with his parents, Max tries to return to his love and his best friend, Bero, in medieval Germany. Instead he lands in 1881 New Mexico. Struggling to get his bearings and coming to terms with Dr. Stuler s evil computer game misleading him, he runs into Billy the Kid. To his amazement Billy isn t at all the ruthless killer history made him out to be. Trouble brews when a dying Warm Springs Apache gives Max a huge gold nugget to help his sister, Ela, escape from Fort Sumner. Shopping for supplies Max attracts the attention of ruthless bandits. Before Max can ask the Kid s help, he and Ela are forced to embark on a journey to find his imaginary goldmine. This is book 2 in the Escape from the Past trilogy."
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Review
This is the second book the in
the Escape from The Past series by Annette Oppenlander. This book follows Max again as he enters the
game again going to a new era the Wild West.
Max is again lost in what the goal of the game is and how to survive in
this era. We get to meet a new set of
characters in the book as well as learn about the Wild West.
Again, in this book the author does an amazing job creating an entire new world
to submerse yourself in while reading.
This time we are in the wild west and following the timeline of Billy
the Kid. As a reader, you can tell that
the author has carefully taken her time to research this era, with all the of
the imagery and descriptions I feel like I am in the Wild West with Max. The author describes town life as well as the
life of the Indians in this book perfectly.
While reading the book, it feels so real that you could almost be in the
game with Max.
Max is growing on me as a main
character. He has grown a lot since and
during the first book to the second book.
We can see a change in his mannerisms as well as the relationship with
his mother. Max has taken his free time
to research the era he was first dropped into as well as learn some survival
skills. I love how the author can add a
love interest into the book each time. It
makes Max show his true feelings and make him become more of an enjoyable
teenager. I also love that the book is
told completely from Max’s point of view because we not only get him describing
what is happening, but we get a lot of his feelings as different events are
happening in the book. We have a lot of
action in this book since the Wild West was a challenging era Max has a lot to
learn about the interactions between everyone.
I loved how we got a lot more
details about the game and the function of the game. The author makes almost a complete second
story with how the game functions during this book. I can’t wait to read the third book and see
how this ends up. We have some new characters
mentioned that are in present day so I am hoping they are in the next book as
well.
I guess my one compliant was I
loved the characters from the first book especially Bero he grew on me. The author does mention these characters in
this book, but just in passing. I wish
we got more interaction with the original characters. I feel
this book wouldn’t make full sense if you read this as a standalone book, there
are a lot of references back to the first book and the whole idea of him being
teleported into the game could be picked up, but if you read the first book it
would make a lot more sense what the end goal is.
I would suggest this as a nighttime
read. There were parts of the story in
which a lot of action was taking place and made it harder to put the book down,
but for the most part there where some natural stopping points that helped me
with reading this at night.
I received a copy of this book
from the author in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of this book.
My Rating 4/5
About the Author
Annette Oppenlander writes historical fiction for young adults and anyone who loves stories set in the past. When she isn’t in front of her computer, she loves indulging her dog, Mocha, and traveling around the U.S. and Europe to discover amazing histories.
"Nearly every place holds some kind of secret, something that makes history come alive. When we scrutinize people and places closely, history is no longer a number, it turns into a story."
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