Insgesamt war das Buch nicht so wirklich meins, da es abgesehen vom Prolog und Epilog nichts mehr mit der originalen Storyline zu tun hat. Außerdem ist mir vor allem in diesem Buch aufgefallen wie brutal es doch ist, obwohl die Zielgruppe ziemlich jung ist. Abgesehen davon bin ich gespannt wie es weitergeht und wozu die alten Legenden so wichtig waren.

Once again switching characters up a little, this starts a three book mini-cycle of this wonderful saga with insight on how owls "lived before this time."

Even though this is a part in a long series i had fun reading. Im sure i would have gotten more out of this book if i had read the stories before, but still i enjoxed the book a lot!

I really enjoyed the previous books in this series (Guardians of Ga'Hoole books 1-8), forgiving the slightly repetitive writing because its intended audience is children, and because the story was interesting. This book, however, was a HUGE disappointment! It was like an episode of friends made up entirely of flashbacks that doesn't have the decency to call itself a re-run. It was basically a memoir, taking the entire book to tell a legend that could have been summed up in a chapter, and taking what I consider a PAINFUL detour from the real characters of interest. Maybe I just don't like memoirs, owl or otherwise. I'm not one to put down a book in the middle, and I couldn't even finish it.

"what's happening?" lord arrin cried out. "I'm happening." ugh what a baddieeeee

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Alors, je peux comprendre pourquoi on fait un bon dans le passé pour comprendre l'histoire etc.
Mais c'est un non.
Je n'ai pas apprécié ma lecture, sans compter beaucoup de choses qui sont bizarres/erronées. Je suis très confuse !

ENG
So, I can understand why we go in the past to understand the history etc.
But it's a no.
I didn't enjoy my reading, not to mention a lot of things that are weird/wrong. I'm very confused !

In the ninth installment of author Kathryn Lasky’s Guardians of Ga’Hoole saga, which she dedicates to Craig Walker, whom she terms “the Guardian,” Soren and his nephew Coryn, in the prologue, come across a book that just so happens to bear the title of this particular entry, The First Collier, at the wishes of the dying Ezylryb. The main chapters are narrated by the titular protagonist of the story, Grank, who lives in exile in the Beyond the Beyond, developing his firesight and working with embers to create effective weapons. In a volcano in the desolate region, he finds an Ember that he wishes to keep secret for fear of misuse.

Grank acknowledges that the times of King H’rathmore, the High King of all of the N’yrthghar, were dark days, and that he himself is no fierce soldier. He has a fascination with fire alongside a sister named Yurta, and flies to the Beyond the Beyond to further his studies. In the Beyond the Beyond, he further learns about wolves, with various original terms coming into play such as Ga’, with his title of collier being coal miner, although other terminology such as spottilated don’t receive definition. Even so, the ninth entry of Lasky’s magnum opus is definitely recommended to those who enjoyed its predecessors.

Im only like on page 5 because on my B-day I got guardians of gahoole numbers 1 2 3 and 4

i borrowed this book in our school library but was not able to finish it because it's already our summer break.

But as far as i have read, The book is what i expected it to be.

There plenty of unexpected twist and turns that made it more exciting

three stars for being not-good. Not good at all. and yet, I just read four in a four nights running, so....

I actually really like this arc. At first I wasn’t sure I would but I’m really interested to see it play out.

I really liked this book. It had action and adventure. I would recamend this book to anyone who has read the other ones and likes adventure and action. One of my favorite charcters in this book is Grank. Grank is simlar to another character named Coryn(Nyroc) in a few ways. They are simalar because they both have something to fight for and they can both read fires(Firesight). The differnce between them is Grank is an adault. Also that Grank is not a king like Coryn, but Coryn is not a worrier in the southern kingdomes like Granke.