chrisvigilante's review
5.0
Attempting to not spoil anything really really hard.I believe I succeed.
I think I liked this book even more than the first Loka Legends book. Dylan is back and thrown into another crazy adventure,but this book starts off with new characters Cole and Jonah. Cole and his boyfriend Jonah's story is heartbreaking in that first couple chapters. I knew this was going to be a great book with the implications of the magic Cole becomes capable of at the beginning of the book.I was excited because it was one of the magics that wasn't highly involved in the previous book.
I felt that the other magics we got to see the most were like that as well. You get to see more of Natasha with her White Loka and new dimensions of the way the Brown, Orange, and Gray Lokas could be used. That was exactly what I wanted going into the second book. Seeing the new magic and characters brought a freshness to the world.
I loved Natasha, and Cole so much by the end of this story.I did not love either of them 100% of the time. They actually did some annoying things quite a bit,but they are young and powerful.Great power, great responsibility yada yada. I feel like what happens to them in the book pulled me in so much more than Dylan, Kio, and Tyjinn.
I did like that we get a big focus on Kio in this. I felt like he really had his own adventure arc where Dylan just backed him up for once. I love this big talking cat in this book and his friendship with a human that he was raised with. It's just fantastic.
Nikolai is werewolf bae. That is all. He's super sweet and protective. I was not disappointed when we were able to see Lali in this. She's such a great leader. One of my favorite characters in this world for sure. I liked that this book had Dylan's father Jack along for the adventure. It's great seeing him involved in protecting his family.Don't see that a lot in fantasy/adventure YA books.
As always I loved the illustrations. One of Natasha is completely one of my favorites. I was on the plane finishing up the book and woke my boyfriend to show it to him because I liked it so much.
I want to know how every Oligarch becomes an Oligarch. I kept thinking that in this book. Oligarchs over the centuries would be a cool little collection to read because the Oligarch origins we know are really varied.Also, really intriguing to me. I'd also totally read a story set hundreds of years later with newer oligarchs kind of like in Josh Whedon's comic Fray where you get the story of a new slayer a hundred years after Buffy.It would be so cool. I just want more from this world honestly.
I think I liked this book even more than the first Loka Legends book. Dylan is back and thrown into another crazy adventure,but this book starts off with new characters Cole and Jonah. Cole and his boyfriend Jonah's story is heartbreaking in that first couple chapters. I knew this was going to be a great book with the implications of the magic Cole becomes capable of at the beginning of the book.I was excited because it was one of the magics that wasn't highly involved in the previous book.
I felt that the other magics we got to see the most were like that as well. You get to see more of Natasha with her White Loka and new dimensions of the way the Brown, Orange, and Gray Lokas could be used. That was exactly what I wanted going into the second book. Seeing the new magic and characters brought a freshness to the world.
I loved Natasha, and Cole so much by the end of this story.I did not love either of them 100% of the time. They actually did some annoying things quite a bit,but they are young and powerful.Great power, great responsibility yada yada. I feel like what happens to them in the book pulled me in so much more than Dylan, Kio, and Tyjinn.
I did like that we get a big focus on Kio in this. I felt like he really had his own adventure arc where Dylan just backed him up for once. I love this big talking cat in this book and his friendship with a human that he was raised with. It's just fantastic.
Nikolai is werewolf bae. That is all. He's super sweet and protective. I was not disappointed when we were able to see Lali in this. She's such a great leader. One of my favorite characters in this world for sure. I liked that this book had Dylan's father Jack along for the adventure. It's great seeing him involved in protecting his family.Don't see that a lot in fantasy/adventure YA books.
As always I loved the illustrations. One of Natasha is completely one of my favorites. I was on the plane finishing up the book and woke my boyfriend to show it to him because I liked it so much.
I want to know how every Oligarch becomes an Oligarch. I kept thinking that in this book. Oligarchs over the centuries would be a cool little collection to read because the Oligarch origins we know are really varied.Also, really intriguing to me. I'd also totally read a story set hundreds of years later with newer oligarchs kind of like in Josh Whedon's comic Fray where you get the story of a new slayer a hundred years after Buffy.It would be so cool. I just want more from this world honestly.
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