I gasped and worried over these characters. Fun. I'm falling more in love with these characters as they grow and mature. Looking forward to the next book.

I haven't read these since like, 5th grade, and it's so much more than satisfying.

Personal response:
I think this was a good book. I liked this book because it was full of action. I thought this book was a good book because it was not long but it was full of words I can understand. This book was good because there were a lot of characters. They all played a very important role I thought.

Plot:
In this book Soren gets a shiny pair of battle claws from Ezylerb. Soren also has to face several challenges. Eglintine has a new hollow mate. Eglintine has a best friend and she woke Eglintine up because she thought she was having a nightmare. Eglintine woke up and asked her why she woke her up. Her friend said I thought you were having a nightmare. Eglintine said she was having the best dream she had ever had. After Soren had tea with Ezylerb he went to his hollow to go to sleep because he got tired from drinking the tea. After Soren left Ezylerb was dying.

Recommendation:
I would recommend this book to middle school kids because it is too small of a book for high schoolers. I would recommend this book to middle schoolers because it is full of action. This book would be good for them because its at their reading level and it is very interesting. This book would be good for them because it is not a very long book. I think they would like this book because it is short and very informational.

Eglantine gets to star in this book but, unfortunately, is a complete liability the entire time. She's too young to do a lot of the things older owls like Soren get to do, conveniently ignoring the fact that she's THREE WEEKS YOUNGER! Pretty sure she and Soren are both more than two years old at this point.

Unfortunately that's such a big part of the story this time that it ruins most of the good bits.

I liked this book a lot better than some of the others in the series, it was really interesting!
Also at one point it just became the movie Coraline but with owls and i enjoyed that.

I was not a fan of Soren's abrupt rudeness towards his sister.

Another great book, although I feel the Eglantine stuff during 60% of the book was played as a huge mystery, but the solution to that was extremely obvious early on, at least as a grown man, I didn't want to think it was so obvious, but yeah, it was pretty obvious. But aside from that nitpick, the story here is pretty good, specially how hard the themes can be, heck, even death. At least the last episodes of the book provided a lot of well needed action and specially a ton of foreshadowing to things to come.

This was a short one. More like an interlude than a full installment in the series. The band gets very little to do, with Twilight and Gylfie having maybe five lines each. The villains' plan feels vague and underdeveloped. And, as usual, the action at the end was all glossed over; a climactic decision and action made by one character happens entirely "off-screen," only to be recapped later. I thought my edition of the book was missing a couple of pages, it was so weird.
Also: Ginger just vanishes out of the story toward the end without any sort of closure, and if I'm not mistaken, she never shows up again. Primrose and Eglantine are developed more, but I don't remember them being especially important characters after this book. Huh.

A little confusing in where it chooses to take the story, but still entertaining. And extremely dark. Complicated and horrifying topics are brought up continuously in this series. I can't say that they're explored with much depth, but hey, they're good for starting a conversation.

Really enjoying the creativity of these books—the details about owl lives and physiology combined with an awesome Fantasy good vs. evil plot!

I like this book! I like the sudden turn of Ginger, the Pure One owl caught in a milkberry-vine net during a Pure One attack on the Great Tree, near the middle of the book. Ginger had been acting like a friend to Eglantine, younger sister of Soren, when it turned out that Ginger was actually trying to 'shatter' Eglantine to lead Eglantine back to the Pure Ones. But Primrose knew somehow that Ginger wasn't Eglantine's best friend, she was, and went out to save Eglantine from being shattered and sucked back into the P.O.U. by Nyra pretending to be Marella, Eglantine and Soren's mum.

when I read this book I was amazed at how they put the detail in it it's like you are in the story even though some people don't even feel that.

This is the fifth book in the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series, which I'm reading aloud to my younger daughter.

When Ginger (a Barn Owl raised by the Pure Ones and part of the attack on the Great Ga'Hoole Tree during The Siege, who was taken in by the Guardians because she was injured) becomes Eglantine's newest roommate, she begins to change. She sleeps more, and Ginger is always whispering into her ear about how she's always being left out. Ginger is trying to isolate Eglantine from the others, and Primrose is suspicious. Eglantine won't hear of it from anyone, because she trusts her new friend.

I thought the last one was my favourite, but this one is my new favourite! The story moved along at a good pace, and I enjoyed the focus on Eglantine. It always makes for a more interesting story when there is deception involved, especially when the reader can clearly see what is going on but the character involved is blind to it.

We are continuing on with the fifth book in the series, The Burning.

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