I can not put down Shannon Messenger’s Keeper of Lost Cities series. Lodestar continues Sophie Foster’s waking nightmare.
Sophie Foster thought she was human pre-teen. Sophie loved her family and her pet cat. She had no idea that in reality she was a genetically tweaked elf with super super-powers! Ever since she found out things have been off the hook bad, but somehow she perseveres. No matter how bad it gets, Sophie rises to the occasion and then it gets worse.
After nearly destroying the Ogre capitol city in the last book,Lodestar picks up with one of Sophie’s best friends, and budding love interests, betraying the cause and joining with the bad guys. He claims to be doing it for Sophie, and all living creates, but his Mom was the leader of the baddies and who knows what he is really up to!
Sophie makes ridiculous decisions about who to trust and why. Much like W, she goes with her gut.
Destroying the elf school where elf kids all learn their magical powers is just a start. Torture, immolation and wanton destruction follow as Lodestar leaves Sophie with little new information and several fewer people she can trust.
More parents and parental figures lie to Sophie than die on her in book 5, so there is that.
The novels are dancing towards Sophie picking a boyfriend! This seems to be momentous and cruel as elves apparently pick only once and are immortal. Big choice for a 12 or 13-year-old being constantly flirted with by every remotely age-appropriate boy.
Lodestar (5) (Keeper of the Lost Cities) via Amazon
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