Friday, September 27, 2019

Rogue: The Paladin Prophecy Book 3

These days, it is all the rage to stretch out the last book in the series to a multiple movies. With Rogue, it feels like they really good have used more stretching out. The book starts with Will seemingly joining up with his grandfather on a quest to create super-humans. Later we learn that they have not really bought into Grandpa's story, and are planning to subvert his plans. That leads them to an adventure into the neverwas. Their powers seem to have been augmented, allowing them to always "know what to do". They eventually destroy the bad-guys machine that they would use to take over the earth. In the process, they run across one of their former friends who has teamed up with the "other side". They also rescue the "dead" angel and then return back home. It felt like a lot of details were missing from the story. There were also many enticing bits that were not explored. (I would have loved to see what happened when they finished with the bad guys and returned to face the "human baddies". How did time work? Was there any connection between the neverwas and their "mini-mes" on the computers?
There were many interesting avenues to explore. However, instead of going there, most of the book was just a series of battles with various monsters. The book used the excuse of "their powers getting stronger" to explain how they always "knew" the best path. However, even with that explanation, things were still too predictable. On the other hand, their "meanness" towards their former friend Brooke seemed to be way out of hand. The relationship with the "bad creators" also left a lot of questions. Why were there powers getting stronger? Why were they able to use these power to defeat the "creators", even though these powers came from the creators? There was some potential in this book. Alas, it was ruined by sloppy writing and too much focus on the action.

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