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Loyola Chin and the San Peligran Order

by Gene Yang

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In this sequel to Gordon Yamamoto and the King of the Geeks, highschool sopomore Loyola Chin meets the mysterious Saint Danger in one of her manyfood induced dreams. The two strike up a friendship which leads to somethingentirely beyond Loyola's imagination.
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Loyola discovers that she can control her dreams based on what she eats before bed. After consuming some ordinary cornbread she meets a man called Saint Danger on a mountaintop, who shares with her a terrible vision of the future, and his even more horrific plan to prevent it. The story is somber and serious at times, for instance, Loyola has struggled with the loss of her Catholic faith following the death of her mother, but also includes more lighthearted elements, like Gordon, an awkward boy with a crush on Loyola who wants to take her to the prom.

The fantasy elements of the story are strange and inventive: the San Peilgran Order is a secret society that stores information in the unused parts of certain people's brains, and can communicate with their hosts when television cables inserted in the nose. The art style is fairly simple but effective; the characters' faces are expressive and often the story moves along without dialogue. The depiction of the San Peligran Order's headquarters is of an odd futuristic hideout, complete with robots and flying DNA scanners and the comic medium works very well to convey the fantasy of the story. Overall this is an intriguing work that combines science fiction, questions of religious faith, and the difficulties of navigating high school in one exciting story that high school age teens will enjoy. ( )
  frood42 | Oct 25, 2010 |
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In this sequel to Gordon Yamamoto and the King of the Geeks, highschool sopomore Loyola Chin meets the mysterious Saint Danger in one of her manyfood induced dreams. The two strike up a friendship which leads to somethingentirely beyond Loyola's imagination.

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