My goodness, Lorien Legacies is finally over. I remember having the series thrust in my face constantly, in school, in the library, in Costco, etc. I felt that I had to start reading this. After an hour of absurdly fast skimming, I felt rather disappointed. Let's start at the beginning.

The prologue starts with two people, in separate dreams, being contacted by Setrakus Ra. He pulls this "I'm only trying to do what's right routine", and Five doesn't buy it for a moment. However, the other person, Mark, did. Yadda yadda yadda, John Smith is in a military base, uses his new power copying, raids a Mogadorian Warship, and then uses his new flight powers to walk in to a trap. This is where things go really wrong. John gets horrifically scarred by Mark, who has been subject to mind control. In the last book, the writer was trying to cast The Beloved Leader in a sympathetic light, like showing him in despair when Ella died. Now, we have him creating horrific genetic experiments, and killing even more children. In my opinion, they wasted a valid plot line. More stuff happens, and everyone decides to go fight Setrakus to kill him once and for all. More genetic experiments, more horrible things happening to the protagonists. I think it was supposed to show that they weren't speshul, the fact that they weren't invincible and all that, but it just seemed forced. It felt that there was senseless violence, just for the sake of senseless violence. So The Garde in the final fight with The Beloved Leader, and it is a curb stomp battle. Half of them seem to have been thrown into space, and Nine is missing an arm. John is caught in a vice grip, and the only thing he can do is Heal all the augments out of Setrakus. He does that, and dies with him. Just kidding, Six is the person who actually kills him, and John's alive, but badly beaten. The Epilogue is twelve months later, and is full of death fake-outs. Five has somehow survived being in space for an undisclosed amount of time, and is just waiting for himself to die. Adam's lumped in with all the other Mogadorians, but chooses to pull a clichéd "I can leave whenever I want but I won't". In the end, John has created a new Loric Council room, but it doesn't have space for only Nine, so that anyone can join. He then says he's tired of being a number, and the story ends.

End result: The book has rubbed me the wrong way. Once upon a time, I might've liked it, but not anymore. What are your thoughts on the series? Did you like it? Did you hate it? I'd like to know.