(warning: spoiler example follows): a Gadianton robber - new special ops division that can materialize out of thin air, materializes in front of Megan, blows acid power into her face and we get to read in gory detail about how the powder is burning and eating her eyes away while she screams in sheer agony for hour after hour.
I felt the long descriptions of how each person was being afflicted was completely over-the-top especially with the contrived "pain" of the characters arguing as story-tellers in front of the reader about not wanting to tell this part.
Why couldn't they say "it looked like the night sky without any moon or stars?" There. Then in what sounds artificially contrived, Marcos decides he can say the word blackness in a different way for another two pages. Josh tries to describe what it looks like by using the word blackness no less than 4 times.
I felt that the background descriptions to the story were superfluous and more that the author wanted to take up pages than actually tell the story (warning: spoiler example follows): Josh and Marcos in Frost Cave coming to the rainbow/galaxy room which has now evolved into the "pure space" room. I started this book with great anticipation however, I came away from it angry for the following reasons: 1) it blathers on gratuitously. It's an adventure of breathtaking magnitude as the most common and fallible of human characters must embrace the unconquerable light of heaven and defeat the raging forces of evil to save their loved ones, themselves, and the fragile fabric of the universe! All of the teeth-gnashing forces of the Lamanites and Gadiantons converge on the Hill Cumorah as the prophets Mormon and Moroni desperately strive to avert one of history's most terrible battles while at the same time Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world, faces the wrath and rejection of followers and foes who cannot comprehend His full earthly mission as Gethsemane and Golgotha loom ever nearer. Experience the exhilarating and heart-wrenching exploits of Apollus, Steffanie, Gidgiddonihah, and the rest of the Tennis Shoes clan who seek to outwit the most mysterious and dangerous adversaries of their lives. Journey with Joshua Plimpton, a chief captain of the Nephites, as he pursues the vilest villains to rescue the golden plates of the Book of Mormon. Your favorite Tennis Shoes heroes return in a whirlwind of nail-biting action and suspense across the vivid spectrums of space and time! Join Jim Hawkins as he walks side by side with the mortal Messiah on His eternal pilgrimage to save the souls of humankind.
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