Evangeline has rose-gold hair and, like other main characters, reads as White there is diversity among the fantasy races in this world.Ī lushly written story with an intriguing heart.Ī teenage, not-so-lonely loner endures the wilds of high school in Austin, Texas. The plot contains welcome surprises, and the large cast piques curiosity readers will wish more time was spent getting to know them. However, the themes of love, the power of story, family influence, and holding onto belief are well rounded and add depth. While the pervasive magic and concept of the Fates as a religious system add interest, other fantasy elements are haphazardly incorporated without enough time devoted to building a cohesive world.
The writing style fluctuates from clever and original to overly verbose and often confusing in its jumble of senses.
The bargain they strike sends her on a dark and magical journey throughout the land. Evangeline desperately prays to the Prince of Hearts, a dangerous and fickle Fate famed for his heart that is waiting to be revived by his one true love-and his potentially lethal kisses. Despite inheriting a steady trust in magic, belief in her late mother’s homeland of the mystical North (where fantastical creatures live), and philosophy of hope for the future, her dreams are dashed when Luc, her love, pledges to marry Marisol instead. When her father passes away, Evangeline is left with her cold stepmother and kind but distant stepsister, Marisol. There is no middle-volume sag in this pulse-pounding thrillerĪfter praying to a Fate for help, Evangeline discovers the dangerous world of magic. Reminiscent of Stephen King’s masterwork The Stand, this book’s pace never slackens. Tucker’s search for the moral right leads to the concept of the “lesser evil” in ways he could never have anticipated and keeps readers completely involved every step of the way. Tucker just wants some payback for the death of his best friend in the previous book. Division threatens, as the teens argue about what to do: join this resistance or find refuge. A looping radio transmission encourages survivors to go west, where a force is gathering to fight back. Taking refuge in a hospital, the teens find a few other survivors but not a lot of additional information. But they still don’t know exactly who is fighting whom, or why, or how far the battlefield extends. It’s clear that the battle they witnessed wasn’t just for possession of their home island-it was for the entire area. No one is on the streets, and while most buildings remain, some have completely disintegrated. But it’s not the historic old harbor town they remember. Tucker and his friends Tori, Kent and Olivia escaped from Pemberwick Island and the air-and-sea battle that raged around it to land in Portland.
#SYLO DJ MACHALE SERIES#
The end is near.In series opener Sylo (2013), war came to Tucker Pierce on Pemberwick Island off the coast of Maine this middle volume picks up where the first left off.
This epic, action-packed conclusion to The SYLO Chronicles is filled with twists, turns, and an ending too surprising to see coming. What they discover will change everything they know about the war, their world, and themselves. When the base is attacked, Tucker, Tori, and Kent have an opening to either escape or to investigate the mysterious dome at the center of the base that is left unguarded in the midst of the chaos. Worst of all, they are forced to turn on one another in order to survive. Day by day they toil as slaves while watching fellow prisoners being conditioned to forget any attachment they had to their old lives. The three become prisoners – part of a massive operation in which survivors are used to rebuild what has been destroyed by the SYLO-Retro war. While on the run from SYLO, Tucker and his friends Tori and Kent are driven directly into the base of the destructive Retros. Barnes and Noble Books-A-Million Powell's BooksĪfter his perilous trek across the United States, Tucker Pierce suddenly finds himself trapped behind enemy lines.
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