Rise of the Elgen

Michael Vey, Book 2

By: Richard Paul Evans

Narrated by: Fred Berman

Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins

Publisher's summary

Michael must save his mother - and protect his powers - in the electric sequel to the number-one New York Times best-selling Michael Vey, from Richard Paul Evans.

Michael was born with special electrical powers - and he’s not the only one. His friend Taylor has them too, and so do other kids around the world. With Michael’s friend Ostin, a techno-genius, they form the Electroclan, an alliance meant to protect them from a powerful group, the growing Order of Elgen, who are out to destroy them. The leader of the Elgen, Dr. Hatch, has kidnapped Michael’s mother, and time is running out.

After narrowly escaping an Elgen trap, Ostin’s discovery of bizarre “rat fires” in South America leads the gang to the jungles of Peru, where the Electroclan meets new, powerful foes and faces their greatest challenge yet as Michael learns the extent of the Elgen’s rise in power - and the truth of their plan to “restructure” the world.

©2012 Richard Paul Evans (P)2012 Simon & Schuster

Michael vey

It was good. The performance was okay, I recommend reading it first. # Michael Vey.

Liked it

I think it was a fun story and pretty interesting. I recommend it to people whom are adventurous and like cliffhangers because this story has cliffhangers. I liked this story a lot.

keeping you on the edge of your seat

This book was a edge of your seat book fir sure. It had excellent character development and ends with a great third book potential.

Phenomenal!

Better than the first. Its now 5 am and I have to go to work exhausted but was worth it. If you start don't expect to stop.

X-men, er, kids show their powers!

A mysterious Voice (via cell phone) comes to the aid of The Electro-clan, yet it proves difficult to tell if that voice is actually a help. The kids head off to Peru to rescue Michael's mother from the clutches of the evil Dr. Hatch who reveals his megalomania and diabolical personality. We also learn more about the world domination conspiracy.

The El-Kids discover how to use their powers in less obvious ways. The supporting characters are given more screen time developing their personalities and fleshing them out. Zeus is most prominent as he throws off the brain washing done by Dr. Hatch and learns to play well with others. It is fun to watch the talents and duels between these X-kids, but it is more interesting to see the "normal" kids use their "normal" talents and abilities in these dire circumstances. We may come to recognize Austin's memory and brain-store of knowledge and trivia and Jack's semper fi bravery and loyalty as powers just as admirable as those of the El-kids.

I do hope future volumes will explain why the indigenous Amazon tribe speaks Mandarin Chinese rather than Quechua or Aymara. Speakers of Mandarin will readily recognize (good pronunciation btw, Fred Berman) common phrases such as
zhàn qǐlái 站起来 stand up
qù 去 go
shuìjiào 睡觉 sleep
bái móguǐ 白魔鬼 white devil

Did Mr. Evans think to fool us, or is there an inherent story-line reason for this? Aside from this, these people have caused the plot twist taking us into the next volume.

This series is rated PG-13 for violence, although none is truly graphic, because our imaginations fill in the details. It's a fine morality tale dealing with many issues such as bullying, seeing people's inner strengths rather than their outward appearance, peer pressure, manipulation, moral courage, friendship and the like.

Written as a kids book but great for adults too.

Would you consider the audio edition of Rise of the Elgen to be better than the print version?

Fred Berman does another oustanding job.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Rise of the Elgen?

Trouble at the Star Source plant in Peru!

What about Fred Berman’s performance did you like?

Voices of Michael, Austin, Dr. Hatch and Jack.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

It's a nice change. A clean book for teens but really for all ages. I am not a science fiction lover at all and love this series. Richard Paul Evean is really onto something here and a big thanks to Mercury Ink for producing this series.The books make you laugh and cry.So nice to see kid's actually make the decision in life to "do what is right" .

Any additional comments?

A great read and I can't wait for the remaing 4 books in the series to come out.

Great addition to the series. (Possible Spoiler)

I loved the first book and the second book is just as good. The story is quick and fun and suspenseful. I laughed out loud more than once. Austin and Max are hysterical. I really enjoyed the book. I hate cliff hanger endings. Hopefully Mr. Evans won't make us wait too long for book 3.

I 💗 Michael vey books

I love Michael vey books Michael vey are my favret books ever!Michael vey is osom the best!!!!!!

Love it !!!!

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes I love it can't wait for my next book

Great Adventure

It was as good as the first book. Love the new powers. They can do fun stuff with electricity.