Hmmm... I like Nyroc, but I miss the story about the Guardians of Ga'hoole!! I want Soren and the band back! :-(

-Lu

I thought it was a good book. I liked how the end was so suspenseful! :) I also liked how Nyroc had escaped the Pure Ones. And how he went to Beyond the Beyond, and waited for Outlisa.

The story continues with a new character added to the cast. Nyra has a hatchling and because he is born in line with an eclipse she names him Nyroc. She's training and raising him to be the next leader of the Pure Ones. She wants him to hate, to be cruel and to be like his father. But Nyroc is special, and it's not long before others begin to see that.
This is an engaging story that follows Nyroc in his early months of life. The author does a good job with this story but for me, it seems that there are some inconsistencies with a couple of the characters. It seems that she switches things up with Stryker and Uglamore. In the previous books it was always Stryker who questioned, Stryker who began to doubt, Stryker who began to think that maybe the Pure Ones weren't as powerful as they once thought. Now it is Uglamore who is thinking these things and Stryker is back to being "brainwashed." I found this to be confusing. Has this change come for Uglamore because of the death of Kludd? The author never really clears that up and remains muddled.
This is an engaging story and my daughter enjoys the series, so it's a win at the end of the day.

This was, by far, the weakest of the books thus far in the series. I have a strong suspicion that this book and the one that follows it should have been one book, not two separate ones. The writing was good, but the story felt unnecessarily drawn out. I haven't read the next book yet so I'm not sure, but if I'm right about the next book, then honestly, my son and I would have much preferred one longer book that moved along than even one dragged out story like this. It still deserved three stars because the characters are strong and we have come to really care about them... This just wasn't up to par with the previous books. It reached its climax in the first half and then just dragged.

I was unsure about this new perspective at first, but Nyroc and Phillip stole my heart.

I thoroughly loved this book, I feel every page of it was a blast to read because everything served a purpose. This new beginning for the franchise was a welcomed one, a new protagonist that serves as new eyes to experience this world and previous events was a great thing to do. The scope of this new adventure feels more grand even if it relies on the "chosen one" trope, although it's a nice change of pace considering the story of Soren from books 1-6 was a more straight forward "misfit fantasy group". I really enjoyed how much they explored the lore of the owls and provided so much foreshadowing to Beyond the Beyond, heck, I feel this is when Kathryn Lasky started to push for a more diverse world with the wolves and probably started to picture Wolves From The Beyond. Despite not having a big scale fight or too many "conventional action scenes", I feel so far this is my favorite book of the franchise, it's using all that has been introduced in previous books and brings it to the next level.

I've really enjoyed this series, but this book brought so much more emotion into everything. I actually cried once or twice when reading this. I was so enthralled with the interesting story line...yes, it's less about the owls we've come to know, and more about a new character (Nyroc) and I didn't think I'd like him very much...but he is such an admirable and upstanding character and I feel so bad for him. I want to reach out and help him! Yes, this book is slightly different from the ones up until now, but it's still very good. As a matter of fact, it might be my favorite by far, sad bits and all.

I thought I wouldn't like this as much as the others but the story of Nyroc, little Philip and the cold-hearted Nyra really spoke to me.

It was good book and I think that it does a good job of introducing Nyroc to the story.

This book fits perfectly in the series. I’m looking forward to reading more of Nyroc’s story.

I love this book series, and highly recommend to kids. The first three in the series I particularly enjoyed. But I read them all as I loved the premise.

Es el libro que más a echo que me preocupe por un personaje, Nyroc, solo quiero que este bien