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jscarpa14's review
3.0
This brings the reader back to when the loculi were first created through the point of view of Karai back on Ancient Atlantis.
The story was interesting yes, but pretty much none of the characters were likeable. When Jack looks through the eyes of Massarym in his dreams at least you can sort of understand his point of view. Here we meet a boy who's mean, rude and impulsive, jealous and vindictive toward his older brother because that brother will be the next king. A boy who is made all that much worse by contact with the loculi to the point that it's pretty clear he played a large role in the destruction of his own people.
We meet the Queen who makes me pity her son and her people. She's condescending, chooses obvious favorites among her children, think she's smarter than everyone around her and entitled to play with powers that she doesn't understand even at the risk of her own people. She doesn't bother to listen to anyone even when they put proof of the havoc she's caused before her very eyes. She even thinks she's better than her own spouse which is made very clear in the way she speaks to him.
We meet the King who is almost worse because for the most part he stands by and does nothing while his oldest son is mistreated by both his mother and brother. Who stands by and does nothing when his wife endangers all of their people by playing with the powers that sustain the island. The thing is it's clear in his actions that he has a lot of the same concerns as Karai but he doesn't say anything. He keeps quiet and lets atrocities happen all around him. In a way that makes him so much worse than the people committing those atrocities.
And while Karai seems to be the best of the bunch, probably because this is his journal told though his eyes, he seems to think genetic experimentation is okay. Obviously he lived long before Mary Shelley and her book Frankenstein because this kid could certainly have benefited from reading that book. Of course you can't completely blame him considering his parental role models, but it doesn't exactly make him likeable either.
I guess this book is nice backstory for the main series, but it's not really necessary and definitely isn't Lerangis's best work.
The story was interesting yes, but pretty much none of the characters were likeable. When Jack looks through the eyes of Massarym in his dreams at least you can sort of understand his point of view. Here we meet a boy who's mean, rude and impulsive, jealous and vindictive toward his older brother because that brother will be the next king. A boy who is made all that much worse by contact with the loculi to the point that it's pretty clear he played a large role in the destruction of his own people.
We meet the Queen who makes me pity her son and her people. She's condescending, chooses obvious favorites among her children, think she's smarter than everyone around her and entitled to play with powers that she doesn't understand even at the risk of her own people. She doesn't bother to listen to anyone even when they put proof of the havoc she's caused before her very eyes. She even thinks she's better than her own spouse which is made very clear in the way she speaks to him.
We meet the King who is almost worse because for the most part he stands by and does nothing while his oldest son is mistreated by both his mother and brother. Who stands by and does nothing when his wife endangers all of their people by playing with the powers that sustain the island. The thing is it's clear in his actions that he has a lot of the same concerns as Karai but he doesn't say anything. He keeps quiet and lets atrocities happen all around him. In a way that makes him so much worse than the people committing those atrocities.
And while Karai seems to be the best of the bunch, probably because this is his journal told though his eyes, he seems to think genetic experimentation is okay. Obviously he lived long before Mary Shelley and her book Frankenstein because this kid could certainly have benefited from reading that book. Of course you can't completely blame him considering his parental role models, but it doesn't exactly make him likeable either.
I guess this book is nice backstory for the main series, but it's not really necessary and definitely isn't Lerangis's best work.
qemorio's review
3.0
I found it very simple, it's written like a journal but falls in and out of that format in manner of speech. My son (9yrs) didn't seem to mind this but as a reader I found it annoying. All in all a good companion if you like the Seven Wonders series.
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