Series Review: The Underland Chronicles

One sad evening, I had to go for my music lesson when my brother could go to the library instead. However, when he returned with a bagful of books, I saw a book’s cover page that read ‘The Underland Chronicles’. Looking at it, I knew this book was for me, and that very evening, I started reading.

In the first book, ‘Gregor, the Overlander’, the main character Gregor follows his two year old sister Boots down to the laundry room, when they fall through a grate to the Underland; a world beneath Earth. Now their mom would be alone with their grandmother and sister Lizzie. The kids dad had disappeared two and a half years earlier.

After the fall, Boots and Gregor met some friendly cockroaches that took them to the Underland stadium. At the stadium two people named Vikus and Solovet took Gregor and his sister to the palace. Not long after, Gregor asked Vikus if his dad had fallen down the grate. Yes, he replied. Not long after, Vikus took Gregor to a Prophecy Room, where he heard the prophecy that Gregor was a warrior who would solve the Underlands problems.

Soon Gregor, Luxa the queen, Boots, and Luxa’s cousin Henry set off on a quest to find Gregor’s dad. Will they succeed or not? Will Gregor actually solve all the Underlands problems? Read the book to find out and spend some time with Gregor and his Underland friends.

In the second book, ‘Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane’, Gregor learns that a 12 feet tall white rat, the Bane, is going to destroy the Underland; so Gregor is sent to kill it. But in the Labyrinth, where the rat is hidden, in a fight, Gregor hears the words “Don’t” from another rat before it dies. Will Gregor really kill the Bane?

In the third book, ‘Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods’, Gregor hears that a curse will kill all the warmbloods in the Underland. He is sent on a quest to find the cure. But is the quest really the key to stop the warmbloods death?

In the fourth book, ‘Gregor and the Marks of Secret’, Gregor, Luxa, and their bats, discover that rats are killing all the mice. They go on a secret quest to find out why the rat’s wanted to kill the mice. Will the friends be able to stop the mice from dying, before they are extinct?

In the fifth and the final book, ‘Gregor and the Code of Claw’, the friends tell all the people in the palace about the mice’s death, and together they try to find a way to keep the mice alive. Also, Gregor is sent to kill the Bane, the leader of the Underland’s problems. A prophecy says, that Gregor will die trying to kill this enormous rat. Can he kill the Bane without dying himself?

The Underland is an ancient world with many wars. Be tough hearted to deal through the pain and deaths in this book. If you can handle that, the plot in this series will take you to emotional rides that is exciting, intimidating, suspicious, and fun; all one after the other.

Writing Girl (WG)