Lutta deserved so much better :(

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Je ne sais pas quoi vous dire. Je pensais que ce tome on retrouvait nos protagonistes principaux, mais non, nous sommes encore dans le passé. J'aurai préféré une trilogie (??) spin-off, et que je ne sois pas obligée de tout lire de peur de rater quelque chose !
Il y a vraiment des soucis avec ce livre, des retournements de situations qui ne sont pas bons, tout simplement.
J'attends de voir, espérant que celui-ci était bien le dernier. Même si je comprends pourquoi ça a été écrit. Je ne sais pas quoi en penser, je suis déçue.

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I don't know what to tell you. I thought that this volume we found our main protagonists, but no, we are still in the past. I would have preferred a spin-off trilogy (??), and that I don't have to read everything for fear of missing something !
There are really problems with this book, reversals of situations that are simply not good.
I wait and see, hoping this is the last. Although I understand why it was written. I don't know what to think, I'm disappointed.

The conclusion to the 3-part spin-off of the Gaurdian's of Ga'hoole in which Hoole discoveres the Great Ga'Hoole Tree.

This book finished the myth of Hoole.

This was a good book i really liked it

In the eleventh installment of author Kathryn Lasky’s Guardians of Ga’Hoole series, the final book in the Legends trilogy, Hoole sits in his father’s thrown and goes to war against evil forces, with his first collier Grank using his skills to forge battle weapons. Hoole himself further seeks a place to establish a kingdom, ultimately finding what becomes the Great Ga’Hoole Tree. The prologue focuses on Soren and company stumbling upon the book-within-a-book with the same title as this entry, with the main story itself commencing with Hoole flying not as a king, but as a knight.

Hoole quickly hides his identity as a monarch, learning about parliamentary procedures and establishing himself as the first Guardian of Ga’Hoole. Meanwhile, in the Ice Narrows, the hagsfiend Ygryk awaits the hatching of a Barn Owl she names Lutta, whom she personally grooms. This entry like its predecessors has some original terminology, such as katabat, a northern draft, and other characters such as Theo and Svenka returns, with readers introduced to the latter’s sire of her cubs. The book ends with a prophecy tying into the present-day Ga’Hoole stories, and is overall an enjoyable read for those who enjoyed its precursors.

Guardians of Ga'Hoole: To Be A King (Guardians of Ga'Hoole Book 11) Summary: Nachtmagen rages through the N'yrthghar as hagsfiends and traitorous lords conspire to defeat new king. With Grank and Theo at his side, Hoole must forge an army of free owls strong enough to defeat the forces of darkness massing on the horizon. The power of the one Ember fires the young king's very gizzard and he grows great. But for young Hoole there us a danger much closer than treacherous lords and the poison of half-hags. For magic - even good magic - brings great peril to those who would wield it. So Soren, Coryn, and the Band read the final legend and glimpse what the future may demand of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole.

Rating: 2 stars

Opening Line: "'Nachtmagen!' The word hung in the air treacherous, insidious."

Quote: "I am an old wolf, my time has come. You must not go against such things just because you have the ember."

great.

When it comes to the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series, I can't say I'm a fan. Kathryn Lasky and I are just on two totally different pages, so to speak. She's trying to write anthropomorphic fantasy with an anti-racism moral, and it's all coming across as vaguely pseudo-racist and lazy to me--as I've mentioned in previous reviews of the series, the protagonists and their goals are hypocritically prejudiced while the world-building has only the vaguest internal consistency. Both of these factors annoy me to no end.

It's disappointing, because there are a lot of moments over the course of the last eleven books that had the potential to be undeniably awesome... only to be squandered one way or another. Examples:

Lasky built an awesome team of characters... only to eclipse them behind a new protagonist who quickly morphed into a Sue and then a whole new set of prequel characters (in the middle of the series rather than via spin-off).

She writes great battle scenes with (quite appreciated) attention to war tactics... that are few and far between, as well as peppered with preachy nonsense about the protagonists' self-righteous and stereotypical morality.

She sets up two separate groups of villains to facilitate varying shades of morality... and then opts for strict black and white ideals that unreasonably favor her protagonists.

Worst of all, though, is the character of Lutta. In her, Lasky has created an intriguing, morally ambiguous character suffering from lifelong brainwashing and emotional rejection and struggling to resist a budding What Is This Thing You Call Love? epiphany.

See, Lutta is a shape-shifting creature created by a powerful hagsfiend sorceress. She's been sent to steal the Ember of Hoole from King Hoole himself while disguised as his acquaintance, Strix Emerilla. As so many other undercover fictional females seem to do, she starts falling in love with the hero. Ultimately, of course, she's found out as an impostor and met with a brutal Heel Face Door Slam.

She dies with everyone believing that she's a vile, evil beast bent on stealing the ember, and Hoole ends up married to (wait for it...!) Strix Emerilla.

...excuse me? The most heartbreakingly tragic subplot in the entire series is over just like that, with no resolution--and then the Ga'Hoole universe offers up one last slap in the face, having Hoole marry someone who looks exactly like her but isn't "sullied" by any moral ambiguity.

Seriously, just thinking about it's making me angry all over again. I'm really looking forward to being done with this series.

One of my favourites in the series. A truly enjoyable read, filled with copious amounts of information that shows just how much information has been researched for this to reach completion.

Took so long to finish because I'm just burnt out from the writer's style. Good thing i guess because i rushed through the end and so did they.

I loved this book! The new young King Coryn & the Band are reading the books Ezylryb left for Soren.
This is a good prequel.

**SPOILERS**

This legend tells of the first Hoole, how he grew up and fought against the hagsfiend armies... about how he got the Ember from the volcano and it's power... and about the beginning of the Tree.

The Band learns all about the evil magic, Nachtmagen, from this legend book.
It tells about how the world they currently live in came to be, the beginning of the Guardians and their daily lives. They learn a great deal about how to battle the evil magic and how it was fought against in the great War in the North, The N'yrthghar Wars.

Can't wait to read the next book!