The Quillan Games

The Quillan Games by J.C. Machale


The seventh book of the Pendragon series. In this book, Pendragon goes to the territory of Quillan. There everything is all grey and seemingly boring. Then Bobby finds out that, you have to put your life on the line just to get some money. And you have to do it everyday! You have to play games in a arcade. When you think of an arcade, you'd probably think, happy, fun, kids, and laughing. But in these arcades, it's serious and silent. You HAVE to win or else you would be taken away to be either enslaved or put in another bad job. The people running all of this are Blok. It's a company that controls everything. They have strategized so well, that they are, in a way, able to control peoples lives. They put other companies out of business by putting their prices so cheap, that nobody can resist them. So it started from there.

Blok controls the people, making them bet in games, play in games, and compete in games just to survive. And then there are these competitions. Bobby first learns about this, when a huge screen appeared showing to people Veego and LaBerge, which are the masterminds behind the crazy competitions. Bobby sees a Tato match, which is a fighting game, on the screen. And one of the competitors happened to be a Traveler. When the Traveler dies in the match, Bobby panics and is frantic. Then in the end, Bobby becomes a challenger, which is what they called the competitors. Bobby is faced with many dangerous and life threatening 'games', one of which, you have to get some flags, while dodging razor sharp disks.
My rating of 1-10: 9