SOUNDTRACK: hiatus.
[READ: February 2, 2018] Amulet: Supernova
It has been SIX YEARS since I read the previous book in the series and the final book isn’t even out yet! When I finished book seven I wrote “How can I wait a year for book 8? [Word has it Book 8 will come out in 2018].” And in that year I totally forgot about this series. Whoops.
So it was a little hard catching up to what was going on, but I managed.
The book opens with Trellis in a dream. he meets an old woman traveler who guides him through his dream. Before he wakes he asks if he will see her again–she says sooner than you expect. When Trellis wakes, he is told the elf army has made landfall.
But when we see the army, led by a small creature named Logi, Logi tells the commander that their plan is surrender. Trellis can’t believe it, but it appears to be true and they take the army into lock up. The city celebrates Trellis, but he is suspicious and he has every right to be because Logi has a token of the Elf King’s affection–a glowing object,
Which turns out to be a bomb of sorts.
In fact, it unleashes the phenix which we can see has Emily inside of it. She causes some serious destruction. but when she sees the glowing necklace, she is able to fight what is possessing her. She sees a young girl reaching for her father’s hand and she flashes back to her own father’s death. It all seems to come crashing in on her and she flees the scene.
Back on the spaceship, Navin and his mother and Aly are told that they are to pilot Colossus suits to the surface of planet Typhon. The are introduced to Jaidoh, the best advisor that the pilots can get. She is able to walk Navin and Aly to get them to the surface. But once there, the two have to ride bikes–the terrain is to fragile for their big robots. The arrive at Daikon ranch where they are given Gadoba tree saplings to bring back. The family is very nice but they are soon under attack and the kids need to speed out on their bikes on a very dangerous path.
We jump over to Emily who is being woken up and told that she has work to do from a creepy purple shadow. But she walks through the mountainside, she meets the old woman who Trellis met earlier. She is with a young boy named Moze. Moze takes her to tree island. They have a nice moment and then Emily is off. This time she is taken to a memory. A night when four stonekeepers lost control of their power but Emily’s great-grandfather Silas Charnon helped fight them off.
She says that she is not afraid of losing her powers, but she will need the help of the shadow. She soon learns an important piece of information. And that leads her to confront Ikol, the creature in the white mask with stripes on it.
The conclusion is coming. If it had been released on the two year plan like all the other books, it would have been out two years ago! When will be able to finish the series? And will I remember about it?
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