“The final book in the Lorien Legacies Series though the end
was a bit saccharine, “the world is better with friends” but dark/gritty parts
were intermixed enough to make it a well rounded wrap up.”
4 Stars
Pros: If only briefly, we get to see all the remaining OG (Original Garde) in one way or another/Lore did a good job in touching upon every aspect and wrapping the series up nicely/Characters that were never given a shot or enough meat on their bones played important/critical parts in this novel.
Cons: The complete change in character of Taylor Cook from
mousy, nervous, shy Healer to round em all up, pep talk Hero seemed sudden and
well, out of character/It would have been interesting to see all remaining OG
interact for at least one moment.
Full Review
If you’ve followed the “I am Number Four Series” from the beginning,
like I have, this was a pretty good conclusion. All the Original Garde that
remain (Four, Five, Six, Seven, Nine and “10”) all show up in one way or
another and all are important to varying degrees. The “outlier” characters, IE,
normal teenagers that were given Legacies in United as One, also play important
parts. The group is split down the middle with Caleb, Ran and Isabela going
onto join Einar’s “rebel” team; wanting to hunt down the villains behind the
Foundation, while Taylor, Kopano and Nigel remain with Nine and return to the
Human Garde Academy.
Einar’s team is hell bent on tracking down key members of
the Foundation and making them pay for manipulating the “Earth Garde”
(teenagers who developed legacies during the battle between the Mogadorians and
Earth.) The Human Garde who return to
the Academy just want life to go back to the way it was before Einar and the
Foundation came to the forefront.
That’s never the case though as suddenly those who run Earth
Garde decide that it’s time to implement the “Cepan” program. When the Original
Garde came to Earth there were all assigned a “Cepan”, in essence, a mentor who
had no powers and was tasked with the responsibility of raising the Garde to
train and use their powers. Some, like Four and Six, had caring, affective
Cepans, well others, like Five and Seven, were left wanting and didn’t learn to
properly use their Legacies. Earth Garde’s creation of the Cepan Program is
just another way for them to control the Human Garde and Nine and Malcolm Goode
are having nothing to do with it, nor are any of the other residents of the
Human Garde Academy.
Basically, it turns into a whole “X-Men, Mutant Registration”
thing where the Government wants to plan “inhibitor chips” inside the brains of
the Human Garde as a way to control them if they “get out of line.” And
understandably, the Human Garde aren’t on board with that. And with the arrival
of John Smith and a surprise guest, we learn that not just Earth Garde were
gifted Legacies during the battle for Earth.
Though the beginning was somewhat slow and drawn out, the
ending had me hooked. I finished the last fifty pages in a night because, as
Lore does, he packed in all the action at once and you just had to find out
what happened. Every action has a consequence and everything we do can change
the future, so to see it all come together piece by piece, moment by moment,
was very entertaining.
Characters who were often thought of as bad had their
redeeming moments and those really stayed with me. After finishing the novel I
found myself wired and awake, thinking over some of the scenes. It was a good
ending to a very entertaining series and though I’ll miss reading about the
Original Garde, I think it’s time Lore called it quits and kept the series where
it is. Another novel and it would be too much. This ending is fine the way it
is.
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