The Legacies

By Pittacus Lore

351 Pages

Published by HarperCollins

★★★★★

By Em 

 

Phew! So, here I am! I finally have some time to breath, and I am taking it quite happily. Volleyball season has just ended (until November when club starts up...), and I'm easing in to high school, so I can finally spend some time catching up. (Mel promises she will try to too.)  And though I did read this back about a month ago, I am so excited to get to write about it! Like I've said countless times, I LOVE this series, and this bonus material was outstanding! We got a recap of some things we knew, and a lot of things we had only imagined before. It was a great read giving great content and unexpected points of view.

Quick heads up, but there may be a few spoilers! The first story was Six's Legacy, where we got a little more info on what happened with her and her Cêpan. We were actually told this story in an early book, but we got more of a front row seat to everything Six had to go through. From responding to the online cry for help, to being hunted down by Mogs, to seeing Katarina, her Cêpan tortured and murdered in front of her very eyes. It adds some nice depth to what happened before Paradise.

The next story was Nine's Legacy, which was filled with a few more surprises. Everyone who's read the books knows that Nine is arrogant and hot-headed, a little vicious, and has obviously experienced some pain in his life. Now we know just why he is like that. Nine was a lot different that what he's like when John finds him in the caves. Nine and his Cêpen Sandor had taken a very different approach to the "blending in" tactic. They had been living in a penthouse in the John Hancock Center in Chicago for a long time. Nine has trained and trained, and thinks he's ready for anything. Sandor disagrees. So Nine trains, and trains, and, then, gets a touch of reality, when he falls head over heels for a girl named Maddie. But, it's natural for trouble to follow a Loric. Nine's in for more of a fight than he ever thought he was ready for. 

I found this story to be really, really sad. Now, I don't let my emotions out very often when I read (if I did, every book would have me bawling when my favorite characters always die), but I honestly got really sad at the end of this one. You remember Nine being a certain way in the second and third book, and then you read this, and finding out how different he was and what made him the way he is now? It's a sad tale. But an interesting one at that.

The third story was by far my favorite. It was called the The Fallen Legacies and we got a LOT of info. The story I was expecting was going to be the first three Lorics and how they lived and how they were captured and killed. WRONG! ( I know! Isn't Emma always right?) This story was actually told from the point of view of a Mogadorian named Adamus, Adam for short, who is the son of General Andrakkus Sutekh. The General and the many other Mogadorian who live in their small Mog neighborhood are the ones who originally killed One. But, once they have killed One, a scientist by the name of Dr. Lockam Anu melds Adam's and One's memories, so Adam can experience everything One did. And, once he does, he begins to question everything that his people stand for, and all that he has ever learned. 

Now, it actually took me a lot longer than it should have to realize that this was from a Mog's point of view. I probably should have caught on when Adam was talking about how someday he was going to rule all of the humans, but honestly, I didn't. So, mild confusion for Emma for a while. But I was really intrigued by how Mogadorians worked and how they searched for the Loric. I was also interested by all of One's memories that we got to relive, and how Adam interacted with numbers Two and Three. Ir was a very surprising installation to the Lorien Legacies story.

So, after doing a little bit of Wikipediaing these books to make sure I got the names right, I stumbled upon something else... In December, there is this lovely little book called The Lost Files: Search for Sam. I nearly fell off my swivel chair! A whole book dedicated to Sam! I feel like I'm dreaming. And I can't wait for that to come out. And then the fourth book sometime next year. I'm very excited, and sad that authors are such slow writers! Until December!