Beyonders: A World Without Heroes

Beyonders

Content Ratings

No Romance

There is no romantic content; Jason and Rachel's relationship is a friendship built on shared purpose.

Moderate Themes

The novel's central premise—a quest everyone before has failed, in a world designed to breed hopelessness—creates a sustained atmosphere of dark fantasy that is more intense than typical middle-grade fare.

Moderate Violence

Maldor's world is genuinely threatening; characters are killed; the villain's power is designed to break people psychologically as well as physically; violence is darker in tone than Fablehaven.

Synopsis

Thirteen-year-old Jason is transported to Lyrian, a world ruled by the malevolent wizard Maldor, and learns that the only way to defeat the tyrant is to assemble a word of power—a quest that has broken everyone who attempted it before. He meets Rachel, a girl from his own world, and together they navigate a world designed to crush hope. A darker and more sophisticated Brandon Mull adventure than Fablehaven.