{"id":6704,"date":"2016-12-06T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-09-12T15:53:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T19:53:39","slug":"a-book-review-of-beyond-gateway-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/a-book-review-of-beyond-gateway-by\/","title":{"rendered":"A Book Review of Beyond the Gateway by Bryan Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Beyond2Bthe2BGateway-a3.jpg?resize=401%2C640\" width=\"401\" \/><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Beyond-Gateway-Reapers-Trilogy-V2\/dp\/0989812243\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1478884345&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=beyond+the+gateway+bryan+davis\">Buy from Amazon!<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Phoenix and Shanghai find a holographic recording left behind by a fellow Reaper who was recently executed. The message leads them on a journey to learn the answer to a crucial question: Does the Gatekeeper, the tyrannical ruler of the world, consume energy from souls in order to maintain power and live for centuries? If so, Reapers have betrayed every soul they have ever collected and delivered them to eternal torture.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><\/span><br \/>\n<!-- more --><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 20.79px;\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 20px;\">Series:<\/b><span style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 20px;\">&nbsp;The Reapers Trilogy (Book 2)<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; line-height: 20px;\"><b>Genre:<\/b>&nbsp;YA Dystopian<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 20px;\">Publisher:<\/b><span style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 20px;\">&nbsp;Scrub Jay Journeys (December 1, 2015)<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 20px;\">Page Count:<\/b><span style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 20px;\">&nbsp;384 pages<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><br \/>I read the first book of the Reapers Trilogy a few years ago and even had some input into its creation process! Now I&#8217;m happy to be able to read the second book and see what happens to Phoenix and Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The Plot:<\/span> As the title states, this is the book that finally lets us know where the souls go after reapers like Phoenix harvest them. Much like the first it involves a lot of mystery, suspense, and conspiracies. Also the end has a ton of unexpected, but well-foreshadowed twists! And I personally liked this book&#8217;s ending better than the first one.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The Characters: <\/span>Phoenix grows a lot in this books as he discovers that it&#8217;s one thing to have principles, but it&#8217;s another thing to have something to back those principals up. Shanghai struggles with being frustrated with Phoenix, because of the restraints Phoenix puts on himself because of his principals. <\/p>\n<p> Alex is as nasty and cunning as ever. We also get a lot more of the Gatekeeper, which makes for some very fun and intense scenes. There&#8217;s also tons and tons of ghosts. This is a book about reapers? We see many ghosts of past dead friends from the previous book. Sadness. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The Setting:<\/span> Most of Reapers took place in Chicago, but in Beyond the Gateway, we venture out from the city to radiation soaked lands and a creepy facility. I&#8217;m not saying much for spoilers, but I will say: swirly abyss, electric cats, and illuminaries. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Epic Things: <\/span>Shanghai and Phoenix go into ghost mode a lot more in this book, which is when they actually temporarily enter the ghost realm and turn into ghosts. It&#8217;s pretty cool!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The Theme: <\/span>Phoenix&#8217;s principles play a big part in this. They&#8217;re very tested in book, where he struggles if his principles are truly the right thing and if they have basis.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Content Cautions: <\/span>This is a book about reapers, so as you probably predicted there&#8217;s a lot of death. The most gruesome is when someone&#8217;s neck is broken, but other people are electrocuted to death. There&#8217;s also sexual implications, but it&#8217;s very light.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif; font-size: large;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">What We Can Take Away For Our Writing:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; color: red;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">*SPOILER WARNING* I don&#8217;t like putting spoilers in my reviews, hence the warning, but to make this point I have to mention spoilers.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><b>1.) Tying Up Loose Ends &#8211;<\/b> Obviously Mr. Davis wanted to make sure there was no possible freaking way that Singapore could ever come back to life, so he covered literally all of the bases. First she didn&#8217;t want to come back, then he gave her lung cancer which meant if she came back then she&#8217;d die again.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , &quot;freeserif&quot; , serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><b style=\"line-height: 18.2px; text-align: center;\">How this can be applied to writing: <\/b><span style=\"line-height: 18.2px; text-align: center;\">When resurrection is a possibility in your storyworld it&#8217;s important that when you actually want someone to stay dead that you make sure you find a way that makes it impossible to bring them back.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"color: red;\">*END OF SPOILERS*<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"color: red;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;\">Conclusion: <\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 20px;\"><i>Beyond the Gateway<\/i> was a great sequel! I look forward to the last book of the trilogy!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 20px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/4-star-rating.gif\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: large;\">About the Author:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"background-color: white; clear: both; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.79px; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rbclibrary.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/bryandavis_l.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; color: #bf9000; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/rbclibrary.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/bryandavis_l.jpg\" style=\"border: none; position: relative;\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b style=\"line-height: 20.79px;\">Bryan Davis<\/b><span style=\"line-height: 20.79px;\">&nbsp;is the author of the following young adult fantasy series: Dragons in our Midst, Oracles of Fire, Echoes from the Edge, and Dragons of Starlight. He also wrote I Know Why the Angels dance, a contemporary novel for adults.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; line-height: 20.79px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; line-height: 20.79px;\">After laboring as a computer geek for 20 years, Bryan followed a dream to become an author. He began by writing a story to motivate his seven children to gain some excitement about writing, and that story grew into a novel. After spending the next eight years learning the craft and enduring more than 200 rejections from publishers and agents, he broke through with his best-selling series Dragons in our Midst. He is now a full-time author and lives with his wife, Susie, and their children in western Tennessee.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; line-height: 20.79px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.79px;\">You can find him on&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BryanDavis.Fans\" style=\"color: #bf9000; line-height: 20.79px; text-decoration: none;\">Facebook<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 20.79px;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BryanDavisAuth\" style=\"color: #bf9000; line-height: 20.79px; text-decoration: none;\">Twitter<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 20.79px;\">,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/37060.Bryan_Davis?from_search=true\" style=\"color: #bf9000; line-height: 20.79px; text-decoration: none;\">Goodreads<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 20.79px;\">&nbsp;and&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/daviscrossing.com\/\" style=\"color: #bf9000; line-height: 20.79px; text-decoration: none;\">his website<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 20.79px;\">! I also have&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2013\/05\/an-interview-with-author-bryan-davis.html\" style=\"color: #bf9000; line-height: 20.79px; text-decoration: none;\">an interview with him<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 20.79px;\">&nbsp;I had on the blog! Check out my review of the first book of this series&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: #bf9000; line-height: 20.79px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2015\/03\/a-book-review-of-reapers-by-bryan-davis.html\" style=\"color: #bf9000; font-style: italic; line-height: 20.79px; text-decoration: none;\">Reapers<\/a>!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; line-height: 20.79px;\">I&#8217;ve reviewed several other books by this author:<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2013\/09\/a-book-review-of-diviner-by-bryan-davis.html\" style=\"color: #bf9000; line-height: 20.79px; text-decoration: none;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Dragons of Starlight Book 3: Diviner<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2013\/11\/a-book-review-of-liberator-by-bryan.html\" style=\"color: #bf9000; line-height: 20.79px; text-decoration: none;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Dragons of Starlight Book 4: Liberator<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2013\/12\/a-review-of-masters-slayers-by-bryan.html\" style=\"color: #bf9000; line-height: 20.79px; text-decoration: none;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Tales of Starlight Book 1: Masters &amp; Slayers<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2014\/04\/a-book-review-of-third-starlighter-by.html\" style=\"color: #bf9000; line-height: 20.79px; text-decoration: none;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Tales of Starlight Book 2: The Third Starlighter&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<i style=\"color: #bf9000; line-height: 20.79px;\"><span style=\"color: #bf9000; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; text-decoration: none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2014\/05\/a-book-review-of-exodus-rising-by-bryan.html\" style=\"color: #bf9000; text-decoration: none;\">Tales of Starlight Book 3: Exodus Rising<\/a><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px;\"><span style=\"line-height: 20.79px;\"><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 20.79px;\"><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 20.79px;\"><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 20.79px;\"><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 20.79px;\"><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 20.79px;\"><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 20.79px;\"><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 20.79px;\"><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 20.79px;\"><\/span><\/span><br style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px;\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px; text-align: justify;\">\n<i style=\"line-height: 20.79px;\"><span style=\"color: #bf9000; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; text-decoration: none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2015\/06\/a-review-of-song-of-ovulum-by-bryan.html\" style=\"color: #bf9000; text-decoration: none;\">Children of the Bard Book 1: Song of the Ovulum<\/a><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px; text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><i style=\"line-height: 20.79px; text-align: start;\"><i style=\"line-height: 20.79px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2015\/07\/a-book-review-of-from-mouth-of-elijah.html\" style=\"color: #bf9000; text-decoration: none;\">Children of the Bard Book 2: From the Mouth of Elijah<\/a><\/i><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><i style=\"line-height: 20.79px; text-align: start;\"><br \/>\n<\/i><i style=\"line-height: 18.2px; text-align: start;\"><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><i style=\"line-height: 18.2px; text-align: start;\"><i style=\"line-height: 18.2px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2015\/08\/a-book-review-of-seventh-door-by-bryan.html\" style=\"color: #2a2af1; text-decoration: none;\">Children of the Bard Book 3: The Seventh Door<\/a><\/i><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><i style=\"line-height: 18.2px; text-align: start;\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2015\/09\/a-book-review-of-omega-dragon-by-bryan.html\" style=\"color: #0b5394; text-decoration: none;\">Children of the Bard Book 4: Omega Dragon<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2016\/05\/a-book-review-of-raising-dragons.html\"><br \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2016\/05\/a-book-review-of-raising-dragons.html\">Raising Dragons Graphic Novel<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 20px;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 15px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buy from Amazon! 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