The Great Toaster Incident (Toasterverse Book 2)

The Great Toaster Incident

One tiny spider. One giant incident. Toaster may be the most adorable Knick-Knack spider in the mirror worlds, but his very existence has put reality in danger.

After discovering that his birth caused an event unlike anything the worlds have ever seen, Toaster sets out with his friends Penelope and Nick to find his missing shadow twin. Their search leads them deep into the Plant Prairies, where books are banned, borders are sealed, and the Crocus King rules with thorns and fear.

As Toaster’s sister grows weaker and the balance of the mirror worlds begins to unravel, the friends are pulled into a dangerous rebellion with the underground resistance group, The Thin Red Vine. To save family, freedom, and the worlds themselves, they must stand together against a king determined to root out anyone who defies him.

Full of imaginative worlds, unforgettable characters, and heartwarming friendship, The Great Toaster Incident is the second book in David Rogerson’s Toasterverse series.

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Excerpt from the book

It had been six months since Toaster found himself stranded in the human world.

No, this wasn’t the type of toaster you would find in your kitchen. Toaster was his name.

Yes, Toaster might sound like a funny name, but when you realise that his parents named all their children after various pieces of technology, it certainly makes more sense. It was also perfectly suitable for a very cute and extraordinary baby spider.

Well, he wasn’t a baby anymore. In the last six months, he had doubled in size. He was now as big as a large grapefruit. A cute, furry and round spider-grapefruit. Toaster had just celebrated his first birthday and now that he was older, his eyesight had improved so much that he only used the two biggest and cutest of his eight eyes.

Toaster was a knick-knack spider, which meant he had the special ability to carry many objects at once. While you and I would put our things in our pockets or bags, Toaster would stash his favourite things in his mop of flame-shaped hair. And he could store a lot in there too.

The adorable arachnid (that’s science-speak for a spider) had been staying with the new friends he’d met after they’d become stuck in the Shadowlands, which was similar to Earth, but everything was black and white. He’d lived in the Shadowlands all his life with his mother, Susan, his father, Barry, and his ninety-nine brothers and sisters.

Now Toaster was away from his family and he’d learned all about the different worlds that existed.

Surely, you’ve heard of all the different worlds?

They are all rather similar to one another, except a different version of you exists in each of them. You see, whenever a human baby is born, it sets off a series of events across each of these different worlds. First, a shadow twin is born because, well, every human being has a shadow, and then, with a pop and a sizzle, an animal twin is born in the Creature Cities and a plant twin in the Plant Prairies, and so on.

The scientists call this a ‘creation incident’ because it’s terribly important to keep all the parts of the worlds where they are supposed to be. You won’t see talking animals running around in the Plant Prairies, because your animal twin should only exist in the Creature Cities.

Now, what if I told you that Toaster’s parents had actually been born in the Creature Cities and then, one day, they somehow managed to travel to the Shadowlands?

It’s true!

And that’s what makes little Toaster so unique. When he hatched out of his egg, he became the ‘Toaster incident’ because, for the very first time in history, the creation incident occurred outside of the human world.

It seems the universe didn’t know what to do in that moment, and so a human child was created in the Creature Cities and a shadow twin suddenly appeared in the Plant Prairies, and all the other versions of Toaster popped into existence in entirely the wrong worlds.