Alliance: The Paladin Prophecy Book 2 (Paladin Prophecy, #2)

by Mark Frost

After exposing the sinister underground society of students known as the Knights of Charlemagne, Will West stays at the Centre over the summer to explore his newly developing physical and mental abilities. Meanwhile, his roommates investigate the Knights' shadowy purpose and discover unsettling information about their own backgrounds. Will and his friends must quickly figure out what's going on and separate friend from foe as they prepare for the coming fight.

• ISBN10: 0375970460
• ISBN13: 9780375970467
• Publish Date: 7 January 2014 (first published 26 December 2013)
• Publish Status: Cancelled
• Out of Print: 5 February 2015
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Random House Books for Young Readers
• Format: Hardcover (Library Binding)
• Pages: 352
• Language: English

Reviews

It's a bummer that my 2020 reading year started off like this... 

Alliance answers a lot of questions and there are plenty of plot twists, but none of them surprised me. I was bored while reading and I even skimmed certain parts. I don't know if my lack of interest was because I'm in a reading slump. I also couldn't take the monsters, villains, fantasy and sci-fi aspects seriously. 

The main characters who sometimes veered into stereotypical territory in The Paladin Prophecy are straight-up stereotypes in Alliance. I didn't care about the characters because I had a sense that they would always succeed or make it out alive.

The one thing that is a complete failure in Alliance is the romance. I hate that Will leads both Elsie and Brooke on and I also couldn't stand the kisses and declarations of love that came out of nowhere. 

I can't think of anything that I liked about Alliance and I'm hoping that Rouge redeems The Paladin Prophecy series.