Dex has faded into the background for several books now, reappearing as necessary to bestow technology before disappearing again. This makes it difficult to root for them.Īlso making it difficult to root for the Black Swan is the fact that there are just too many of them at this point and Messenger is not adept at handling them all. Lady Gisela is running the show with impunity because apparently everyone in the Black Swan is out of their depth here. Instead of fighting the Neverseen or going after her human parents (which is the ostensible goal), the Black Swan keep running errands for their enemy, bringing her back items and information in exchange for very little. It makes the book read like a video game full of side quests. They fail to do a single thing in this book without the aid of Lady Gisela. Meanwhile, Sophie and her friends continue to be all but useless.
She just chooses not to…because she’s holding out an increasingly foolish hope that her son will join her in her quest. She keeps asking them to perform tasks for her, but it seems pretty evidence that she could perform the tasks herself, if she really wanted to. Is there any particular reason that she needs to ally herself with Sophie and Co. Is there any evidence that she is working against her former allies? No. are working with a previous villain because…why? Did she do anything to earn their trust? No. However, I think the real reason I could not understand the plot is that it is not really understandable. Altogether, this is a disappointing installment that feels very much like the stereotypical “middle book”: it is doing nothing but taking up space.įor a long time, I could not get my bearing in the story and I feared that it had been too long since I had read Book Five. Many of the characters we have come to know and love fall by the wayside, as Shannon Messenger struggles to handle her large cast. There is no clear point to the story or to any of the characters’ actions.
In Nightfall, the series has finally lost its way. Still, I have loved every ridiculous minute of the series until now. I recognize that the Keeper of the Lost Cities series is not well written and that it often borders on farce, especially with its love square (pentagon? hexagon?) and the fact that the characters give themselves ship names. And Sophie isn’t sure she should trust one of the villains. But only one person knows how to get there. The Neverseen have taken them to Nightfall. Sophie is looking for her parents–the human parents she’d forgotten she’d had, until it was too late.
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