Book Review - The Search for WondLa

Today's guest blogger is Lydia Allabaugh, a first year ATYP  student in Ms. Carr's English 9/10 class, with a book recommendation for your holiday weekend, or as a gift idea for the reader in your life.

A Little Taste of The Search for WondLa

The Search for WondLa by Tony DiTerlizzi is an incredible and breathtaking fantasy novel. Some of the main characters include Eva Nine, Rovender Kitt, and Muthr. The beginning introduces Eva Nine, and her robotic mother Muthr. They live in a sanctuary, a house underground that has all the necessities to live, and have a peaceful life. The setting in the sanctuary is uneventful and prepares Eva Nine for life after she leaves the sanctuary. The reader realizes Eva Nine has never been above ground. After a day in Eva Nine’s regular life, the reader finds her in an unpleasant situation. A marauder has broken into her sanctuary. He destroys her sanctuary, and she is forced to run away from her home and her beloved Muthr. While on the run, she meets a creature that looks nothing like the animals, plants, and other humans she had seen in her holoshows, like television except shown in holograms. Once Eva Nine is out of the sanctuary she meets a new acquaintance, whose name is Rovender Kitt, Eva Nine begins to realize some thing she hadn’t before. The two things Eva Nine realizes are how much she loved Muthr and she was on Earth, but there was something changed about Earth.

There are amazing things included in The Search for WondLa. Throughout this novel, there are great lessons on friendship. Most of the friendships developed are nurtured throughout this novel and the two following it. There is so much action a person could sit down and read all the way through this novel without wanting to stand up and stop or put it down. The following two novels in the series are only worth reading after reading this first novel. Once the reader has read this novel, they will desperately want to read the rest of the series, too. The other two books in the series are called The Hero for WondLa and The Battle for WondLa. There is also a movie based on The Search for WondLa coming out in 2017.