Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret
Written by Obert Skye
Narrated by E. B. Stevens
4/5
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About this audiobook
a fantastic realm that allows mankind
to hope, imagine, and dream.
"There are many kinds of secrets, but all secrets are much more interesting if whispered. And if that whispered secret is a haunting, life-altering one that has to hunt you down, than all the better."
-- Obert Skye
You must be ready to join Leven Thumps, Clover Ernest, and Winter Frore as they journey across Foo to free Geth from his existence as a toothpick and restore him as the rightful heir to the throne. It won't be easy. Foo is in chaos, and Leven must overcome several adversaries and survive the Swollen Forest to save his friends and keep hope alive. As fate would have it, bad goes to worse when Leven digs up a buried secret -- one that stalks him, determined to whisper a truth that could be deadly in the wrong hands. Will Leven master control of his power, or will Foo crumble under a dark, new enemy?
Obert Skye
Obert Skye was born on a stormy night in the back of a fast-moving taxi, in the middle of the week during an average-length year. He is the middle child in a family with an odd number of children. Obert’s interests include falling from great heights, devouring books, and fighting for Foo. He also likes the beach. The author of the bestselling Leven Thumps series, Obert travels around the world telling all who will listen about the importance of Foo. He currently lives in the United States in a place a bit colder than he would prefer.
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Reviews for Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Couldn't put it down. A quick and easy read, and the illustrations are great!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A slightly simple, imaginative series. Strange descriptions sometimes, and the author goes off on random tangents, which bored me because I did not really care about the little fake stories designed to teach lessons or entertain, because they failed to do so for me.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Reading the back and looking at the really neat cover, this book had a lot of potential, but it really fell short. The entire thing came off really forced and self-conscious, and the characters and settings seriously lacked depth, especially all of the adults and other "evil" types, who are basically caricatures with no motivation to be how they are and therefore no realism.The author seems to have no sense of where the the story is going and appears to be making it up as he goes along. The humor is forced, and a lot of it comes off as "Oh, look how clever I can be." The little character development there is is inconsistent.In all, the author fails to create a compelling world or coherent characters, which just makes the awkward plot even more tedious. This was pretty difficult to get through.On the plus side, the name Obert is awesome, and I think a lot of people could benefit from ripping the first letter off of their names.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret is a great sequel to Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo. In the first book Leven Thumps discovers a secret gateway to a whole new world, Foo. In the Whispered Secret Foo is in total chaos. The mighty king has become a toothpick and a dark and evil force is trying to take over Foo. Leven must save the king and stop the Foo from before this new dark force takes over.After escaping a crazy dream-master and destroying the hidden gateway in book one, Leven Thumps finds himself on another adventure. Leven and his companions now must journey across Foo to rescue and restore Geth from his toothpick shape back to his rightful king he once was. Foo though, is still in mass chaos, making the journey even more difficult.The Leven Thumps series have really intrigued me. They are all great books that hold exciting and edgy adventures. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves fantasy and cliff-hanging adventures, because this book is full of it.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It took me a long time to read this book, mostly because I never quite got hooked on the story. The author used quite a bit of creativity developing his characters, and the ideas behind Foo were interesting, but none of the personalities or relationships were moving enough to grab me. The Gateway to Foo was a fun adventure that might appeal to middle grade readers. Perhaps my hopes were set too high when I started the book; it wasn't what I expected.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I totally have a book-crush on Leven.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good book. Interesting world building. Dialog is laugh out loud funny. Characterizations are good.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An amazingly imaginative story...I couldn't put it down! Can't wait to find out what it's like in Foo, what Winter was before she came to Reality, what will become of Geth, and what will Leven do in Foo now that he's gotten Geth there...and what on earth is an offing????? Gotta read Book 2 to find out!!! I highly recommend this booK!!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5My husband heard about Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo by Obert Skye and was curious to read it. As we had a road trip coming up, I borrowed the audio version, performed by E.B. Stevens (the narrator of the Fablehaven audio books).The book is about three refugees from the land of Foo who together can either be the land's salvation or its destruction. In comic book fashion, we're given three origin stories to see how the three unlikely heroes have ended up in Burnt Culvert, Oklahoma. Most of the book is spent in uniting these three before they can set off on the quest to stop the Foovian hell bent on giving all of Foo a chance to return to Earth.The titular character is Leven, an orphan left in the care of his mother's half sister and her lazy husband. Winter is a changeling, left in the care of a mother not at all interested in being a parent. No mention is made as to the fate of exchanged baby. Finally, there's Geth (who Stevens pronounces as Gef), once a king and now through the power of "Fate", a walking, talking tooth pick.There are a number of distractions with this book. As this is an audio, the first and foremost, is the performance. I'm not a fan of Stevens's odd over enunciation of words or how often he mispronounces words.Secondly, there's there's the over use of FATE. Throughout the book Leven and Winter are reluctant to blindly follow the orders of Clover — a catlike creature who is somewhere between a house elf and Jar Jar Binks. Yes, he's that annoying, and yes, I was imagining all sorts of painful fates for him. Anyway, whenever Leven or Winter don't want to listen, Clover and Geth sit back and smugly tell them to trust in FATE. And of course, FATE steps in, because it is the deus ex machina of the book for every single time the author writes himself into a corner.As FATE is the ten thousand pound gorilla in this fantasy, there's not much room left for bravery or bravado on the part of either Leven or Winter. All these characters have to do is be transported from point A to point B. Leven is especially prone to just being carted around — at times being frozen and at other times, drugged by Clover.Finally there's Foo. This is the land of dreams, where people who are unlucky enough to be at a crossroads under extraordinary circumstances, are sucked into Foo. While those who come out of Foo describe it as the most wonderful and important place ever, I am tempted to side with Sabine who was one of these stolen children and wants nothing but to get back home — even if it means destroying Foo in the process.Foo is by no means Oz. For Foo being such a monumentally important place (fostering the creativity and hope of mankind) and for being such a potentially dangerous place (world destruction if it's destroyed), why does it have such a stupid sounding name? Seriously, Foo?
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I really enjoyed this book. It made me laugh out loud at several parts, and it is a great story. Leven is just an ordinary boy from Oklahoma with a miserable life, or so he thinks. Then he meets Clover who tells him that he is supposed to do great things. Winter is a girl with a miserable life who feels drawn to go to Oklahoma for an unknown reason. Geth is a once great king who is now a tree that watches over Leven as he grows up. And the bad guy in the story is Sabine. Sabine is bent on ruling both reality and Foo no matter what the cost.Foo is the place between possible and impossible where dreams are made.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I fell in love with this writer in the first paragraph: "And the flags that only days before had hung majestically on top of the local flagpoles no longer looked majestic, they looked like multicolored pieces of cloth that had climbed up and tragically hung themselves." The story is good enough, if pretty standard fare for the Harry Potter generation: kid grows up in unfortunate circumstances, not knowing hs true power, then teams up withthe first true friends he ever had to save the world...However, the writing makes this book totally worh the read. It is clever without being to much so or pretentious in the least. And laugh-out-loud funny in places as wll. Am looking forward to the sequel (LT & the Whispered Secret) as well as the rest of the series with great anticipation...
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leven Thumps is a fourteen-year-old boy from Oklahoma who discovers that it's his responsibility to ensure the continued existence Foo - the land of of hopes and dreams. He is joined by a young girl named Winter, a cute cat-like creature whose job it is to make sure Leven is happy, and Geth -- the king of Foo who happens to be a toothpick.It sounds fun, doesn't it?Skye's writing will appeal to all ages, and his adventure will translate well to the big screen. I'll certainly be reading the rest in this series!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Leven Thumps mom died during childbirth. He is living with her step-sister and husband who show him no love. Winter is another child living in a family with no love. She decides to leave home and heads to Oklahoma, where she meets Leven. Both have been outcasts and picked on. Shortly before she arrives, Clover, a nit, reveals himself to Leven and explains that Leven must go to the land of Foo and protect it from Sabine. Foo is the land where all our dreams come from and if Sabine finds the gateway and takes over the two, dreams will be lost and mankind in trouble. Winter has the ability to freeze things. Leven can see into the future. Together they are trying to find Geth, who was a big tree in Leven's backyard, but he is chopped down, wood sold, and turned into a toothpick. They finally connect and begin the journey toward Germany where the gate is. Leven cannot sleep at all or the shadows find him. Via trains, a stolen car that they drive and sail across the ocean on and ice road that Winter makes and then being picked up by a ship, they make it to France. They get to the lake, but there Leven mets Sabine. There is a battle but Leven makes it to Foo, destroys the gate, and meets his grandmother. USAGES: Listed as YA. Good for advanced readers, complicated plot, fantasy.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I'm really not sure how I feel about this book. It was recommended by the woman who works in children's books at the local B&N and I do agree that the writing is entertaining and very good. But it bothers me that basically every adult/figure of authority - parents, teachers, whatever - is portrayed as cruel and essentially evil. The descriptions are beyond neglectful or mean, they're downright abusive, and I don't think it really adds to the story. Kids can be isolated, lonely, and unhappy without being abused like that, or it didn't have to be such a big part of the book.Other than that, I enjoyed the story and as I said, the writing is very good.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I don't know what to say about this book. It's different. But a nice read.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leven Thump must find and destroy the gateway to Foo (the land of dreams) Three transplants from Foo Clover, Winter and Geth, have been sent to help Leven in his fight against the evil Savine who desires power over Foo and reality.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fourteen-year-old Leven Thumps lives in Oklahoma in a trailer park with his evil aunt and uncle. His aunt and uncle are dull and tell Leven to do everything. But all that changes when he discovers that that he has powers that can destroy Foo, a man-made fantasy world, and destroy Sabine, an evil spirit who tries to steal Leven’s powers from him. Will Leven get there in time? Will Sabine rule reality and Foo? Read this book to find out. I like this book because it has great action. It also is a page turner, because you want to read more and more and more and more. I would definitely give it a 10 because it is so interesting and funny. If you like reading the Harry Potter series then you will enjoy reading Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo because of its great adventure.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5MOre enjoyable that I expected. Leven, and his three helpers (Geth, Winter and a little cat-like furball) have to find the Gateway to Foo and destroy it.