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Review: The Fate of Ten

The Fate of Ten The Fate of Ten by Pittacus Lore
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Oh my god....... is the only way I can think to start this review. This series.... Kills me.

Okay I'll try to just hop right in, mimicking this book. The Fate of Ten got straight to business and destroyed me from page eight. Even from the way the previous book ended I was still unprepared. After that initial shock... I must say, it... Well I mean, it didn't slow down per-say but... Let's just say that John took two naps and then that was the first 100 pages gone.

This was something that slightly worried me ever since they announced they were splitting up th last book. That in order to get that ($)page count($) they might need to add some filler or draw out scenes. Welp. The whole begining of the book was John and Sam dicking running around the city, complaining about being tired (which I totally get, but still), napping, and seeing the hopelessness of their situation. I totally get that they were trying to make it realistic, I completely understand that what John was doing was extremely exhausting, but they could have not spent one hundred pages on this.

This book got very depressing, and stayed so for the whole first half of the book. I don't know if you noticed, but it took me nine whole days to finish this thing. I finished the second half of the book in one sitting. Before that I just wasn't in the mood to read about how fucked they were. And they were very fucked indeed. Pardon my French. After about the middle, more actual THINGS started happening and my wrists stopped looking so tasty.

After that it was pretty good. It had all the great characters we've come to love, and there was actually quite a bit of Adam which almost made up for the lack of Nine. Almost. Adam in the main series has just never been as good as the Adam I fell in love with from the Novellas. Sigh.

Anyway, this review seems pretty negative for a four-star review. And you don't know how much it pains me to give this four stars. My first instinct was duh, it's a Lorien Legacies book, automatic five stars. And that's what I've given it on Goodreads it as a placeholder while I'm writing this review. But during the writing of this... I've come to accept that OVERALL... This was not as good as the other books. Just because the first half wasn't up to snuff. The second half was pretty good though.

I started writing this review right after I finished the book, and as you can see from how I started this review, the last part of this book was definitely some of that good good. Things actually went down, go figure. Though the end wasn't as intense or shocking as the last book, it still left me dazed. More about my thoughts on the ending in the spoilery section.

Soooo yeeah. I don't even want to say that, "ohhh this the worst book in the series" because in the end it was still a good read and very much worth it, and I can't wait to see how the series'll end from here. This doesn't feel like "the worst book" (even if technically it might have been) or whatever. It was just a little bumpy. It (eventually) moved the plot along and enough (ended up) happening that it feels sufficient.

I just feel like they could have cut some stuff out, moved it along and just had everything in this book instead of splitting it between two books. Sure, having it split up looks better on my shelves because all of the books are the same width, but I would have prefered just one bigger better book honestly. Like what Marissa Meyer did with the last book in The Lunar Chronicles, Winter. That book has over 800 pages but they didn't split it up and it was magnificent. No filler, nothing extra, just pure bliss. And Meyer didn't rush anything either which could have potentially been a problem.

All said and done, I can't wait for the last book, and I absolutely can not wait for the next novella collection to come out. I have a really good track record with those.

Spoilery Section Yay!!
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Pre-Read Review:
I can't waaiiiitttt!!!!!!!!!!! :D

Edit: YES I'M SO HAPPY THERE'S GOING TO BE SEVEN BOOKS!!! MY BODY IS READY!!!!!!!!


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