After finally having time to read again, I started with an almost absolutely fantastic book. The 2nd Kingdom Keepers series. So, here I'll explain the Kingdom Keepers and why I love them so much, by the way even though the storyline is fictional, the Disney that Ridley Pearson writes about is spot-on, it pays to have a writer who knows what they're writing about. The Kingdom Keeper books are about 5 kids who become "models" for Disney and their new DHI (Disney Host Interactive) experience, the kids become Hologram guides in the park. Although these guides are helpful and popular around the parks, the Imagineers have alterior motives for them, to help save the parks from OverTakers, the Disney Villians. At this point, you may be thinking, that's so childish, and seems so cliché, but the books are so cool. The teens help protect the parks as holograms inside the parks after hours, hence the name Kingdom Keepers. So, the first series was so amazing, I pretty much read the first 4 books in a week and had to wait a year each in between the last 3 books, because I would also read those in a week. I was absolutely heartbroken when I found out that book #7, was going to be the last one in the series. I knew he was going to make another series around Disney but wanted the same characters back again. Apparently all of his readers wanted that so he made a new series around the same characters but from a different character's point of view. Hence, series #2.
Sorry, had to put some kind of Disney gif in there.
Okay, so not only is the old gang back but they are now in College and are "done" with being Kingdom Keepers, let's see how long that lasts. So, as I said before Ridley Pearson really knows his stuff about Disney, they let him visit at night and talk to imagineers and see the archives and all kinds of crazy, cool stuff. So all the books have very, very good imagery and are able to take you into the parks with the Keepers. Also in the new book, one of the main Keepers, Finn (The only one that still wants to be a keeper), is transported to what I think is another time period. So here is some great imagery from the book, "The boys in the audience wore dress shirts with button-down collars;the girls, cardigan sweaters and pleated skirts. Most of the women wore white gloves, while the men had slicked-back hair, clean-shaven faces, ties and jackets. Not a single tattoo or piercing." (Pearson 40). Given this clue, some foreshadowing from the book in between the two series, I assumed Finn was transported through time.
Another good piece of Imagery was this, " The decorations hadn't been changed in forty years. A colorful carpet, a pair of antique chairs, a standing lamp, and two daybeds resplendent with needlepoint pillows. A small round table held the historic glass-domed lamp Walt Disney had once used to announce his presence in the park." (Pearson 18).
If you are a Disney fan, I strongly recommend that you read these books.
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