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April 25,2025
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The Coming of Hoole is the tenth book in Kathryn Lasky's The Guardians of Ga'Hoole seires. And the second of three instalments in the Leagends of Ga'Hoole seires. THis second instalment in the Leagends of Ga'Hoole seires follows grank trying to raze Hoole to be the next king of the owl Kingdom. The story also senters around Siv in several plases and even senters arond Pleek and Ygryk (Don't ask for a pronunseation). This book also intraduces some new karaters including a few Gluaxian Brothers and some more Dire Wolves and it goes into more deatale about the Hagsfiends overall plans for the owl kingdom, aswell as finally explaining why Ygryk wants Hoole. Those two points were injoable and cleared up a few klif hangers that were there after the end of the last book.I acturly liked the length if this book because it was atualy longer than the others.The thing about this book that I don't like I can't actualy say because they will be clasifide as spoilers.
like the last book it is optional to read this book but i whont recomend you skipping it.
April 25,2025
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I think that this book would be good for kids that love to read and love a little adventure as well as a little love, a few gruesome images, and a tad of war, this will be a great book/series
April 25,2025
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Not as thrilled with this one either. Still getting sidetracked with other stories that don't really pertain to the original storyline.
April 25,2025
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I'm dying to read the next book in the series. These looks into the history of Ga'Hoole are completely gripping in themselves and also in that they're setting up what will happen next in the current Ga'Hoole story. Such a good, fast read.
April 25,2025
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Very conflicted on this one. Again, I only ever read it once, and basically all I remember is how traumatizing the eye-gouging scenes were (seriously, who greenlighted this book for kids?). Large chunks of it were very evocative, feeling like a sweeping, ancient epic as told to you by a beloved relative. Other parts were cringe-inducingly bad, like the amount of times we're told, by both the prose and the characters, how noble and graceful and SPESHUL and better-than-everyone-else Hoole is. A very mixed bag overall, but I'm still enjoying looking back on this series with adult eyes, as there are layers I didn't see when I was younger. On to the next!
April 25,2025
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This whole series is an amazing epic, and you don't even have to know anything about owls to like it! I didn't before I started, and now I'm way up on owl lore. If you want to check out of your life for a bit, check in here.
April 25,2025
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I enjoyed hearing more about the legends and Hoole's life on the island and in beyond the beyond. as all of the other books are I thought this one was great. definitely would recommend reading
April 25,2025
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My son loved these! He read them in about 3rd grade. I didn't share his love, but then I'm an adult and I experienced the story from a totally different point of view (I mean, fighting owls??! It was hard for me to get into.) I was willing to let him read whatever it took to get him to reading fluently and I was just happy to see him immersed in a book.
April 25,2025
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The tenth main entry of author Kathryn Lasky’s Guardians of Ga’Hoole saga, for the most part, tells a prequel story to the other entries in the franchise, with Grank the collier shepherding the exiled Prince Hoole. Unlike the book’s immediate predecessor, narration is third-person, with Soren and his friends finding in the prologue that it’s unknown who exactly wrote the second part of the series’ backstory. The chief chapters open with Queen Siv holding the scimitar of her late husband King H’rath as she faces Lord Arrin, refusing to divulge the location of her egg.

Meanwhile, the titular Hoole begins to hatch on an island in the middle of the Bitter Sea, with Theo present and officiating the young prince’s First Worm ceremony, after which hunting for voles is suggested. As Theo ultimately hears the chanting of Glauxian Brothers, Hoole yearns for his first branching, with one among the monks’ ranks, Berwyck, taking a liking to the young prince. Svenka from the previous book returns, having named her cubs First and Second due to the fact that polar bears in the saga’s universe tend to die often in infancy, although both survive long enough so that she can give them proper monikers.

Hoole, like Grank, has a fascination for fire, although Grank himself has trouble exercising his gift of firesight at points. Hordweard the wolf yearns for revenge, as well, with battle occurring in the final chapters, Hoole needing to become a knight before he eventually becomes a king and acquires the longer name Ga’Hoole. The epilogue details the reason for reading the world’s history, which is to understand the power of the embers. Overall, this entry of the series is pretty much on par with its predecessor, not a bad thing, although it can be easy at times to forget the species of / characters.
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