Brian Linzy» Max Quick Archives – Brian Linzy http://blog.brianlinzy.com Si vis pacem, para bellum Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:03:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Max Quick http://blog.brianlinzy.com/2009/10/14/max-quick/ http://blog.brianlinzy.com/2009/10/14/max-quick/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:47:30 +0000 Brian http://blog.brianlinzy.com/?p=1245 Here’s a new Podiobook recommendation:  The Max Quick Series by Mark Jeffrey.  I suppose they’d be classified as Juveniles, but only because the main characters are young and the content is family friendly.  The story is far more sophisticated than Harry Potter.

Max Quick 1: The Pocket and the Pendant is available as a Podiobook. It was available in paperback, hardcover, Kindle edition, and in PDF, but due to the bizarre nature of the publishing world those have all been pulled.  HarperCollins bought the book, and in their infinite wisdom they have decided to stop selling it until 2011.   But you can still download it free from Podiobooks.  Whatever.

Max Quick 2: The Two Travelers is also on Podiobooks, and just like Max Quick 1 the print editions have been pulled.  It’s a shame because the cover has a picture of my favorite building. The story really picks up in The Two Travelers.  In both books Mark Jeffrey has done a great job of moving the story along and never falling in to the trap of relying on a simple mechanism (like a magical power) to fill pages (or minutes, as the case may be.)

Max Quick 3: The Bane of the Bondsman is currently being written.  No word yet if it will be made in to a Podiobook, but I certainly hope so – especially since HarperCollins doesn’t want to sell books.

The author reads the podiobook himself, which I normally don’t care for, but Mark Jeffrey has done a great job with these productions.

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