The Rise of Magicks (Chronicles of The One, #3) by Nora Roberts

The Rise of Magicks by Nora Roberts
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Synopsis:"The first battle is already over, but the big fight for good and evil is yet to come: The young Fallon leads their army to Washington D.C., to drive the black magic out of the world. She is the chosen one to rebuild the world after the apocalypse and unite her inhabitants. There is a great burden on the young woman, because the family of her father's murderer seeks revenge on her and her sweetheart. But Fallon's mission is now easier than the interpretation of her feelings for Duncan, whose fate is inevitably tied to hers."

I was surprised to find that I enjoyed this last book in this trilogy way more than the first two. It was a reasonably good way to end this trilogy but not a fantastic way to end it. However, if you have already read the first two books, then this is a must-read for you.



https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34311452-year-one

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38236125-of-blood-and-bone



I had some problems with the repetitiveness that Nora seems to embrace lately. She does like to repeat over and over, what we not only have learned from the first two books, but she did this with passages from this particular book too. Unlike other reviewers, I feel that Ms. Roberts was merely filling up pages to get to a specific word count. I did not like the fact that these books use a language more like what she uses in her J.D.Robb series -which I call 'text speak.' She tends to lose the flow of her sentences when doing this, and it makes it a bit awkward for a reader who is not used to this way of speaking. Ms. Roberts leaves out things like determiners and grammatical articles and even some crucial verbs!

I still do think that this series is geared more for the YA audience than a purely adult one.

There are new character's to enjoy, fights galore, and deaths of some secondary character's that we've come to know. I do wonder why Fallon is not using all of this fantastic magic she absorbed when opening "The Book of Spells" and then jumped into "The Pit".

The last fight is interesting ( not exciting as such, but interesting) but a little lackluster for a trilogy like this

I loved Vivienne especially and a lot of the secondary and tertiary character's. This idea would have made an excellent long-running series which would have given the characters more time to grow and mature into their roles. I did have a bit of a difficult time with the large jumps in time. Fallon is an infant -poof-Fallon is 13-poof-Fallon is 20 (I think). An extended series would have given us time to see what all the fights were like, to understand more about Vivienne and the other alliances, to feel more about the romance, etc.

*ARC supplied by the publisher.


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