"OPEN ALL DOORS AND AWAKEN."
The Paladin Prophecy is another one of those books that have shown me how much my reading taste have changed. I liked this book when I read it years ago, but now it's just meh.
The Paladin Prophecy is a fast-paced action and thriller read. However, everything is cliché, generic and predictable. There's nothing exciting or unique.
I would have been okay with the predictability if I liked the characters, but the characters are also meh. The main character, Will West, is one of those I'm-good-at-everything characters and I alternated between feeling meh about him and disliking him because his actions scream entitlement. While Will has some really cool friends - Ajay, Nick and Elise - they sometimes went into stereotypical territory. I also wasn't a fan of Brooke because she's there to be Will's love interest and damsel in distress and nothing else.
Also, the characters can literally do everything and anything. Will and his friends have an interesting set of abilities that always appear at the moments where they are needed and because of that, I never felt that the characters were in immediate danger. I also had to suspend disbelief when it came to the monsters and the technology, but I found the technology and sci-fi aspects interesting.
The Paladin Prophecy reads like a movie and it's quite interesting that one of the life lessons that Will's father tells him is:
"Don't watch your life like it's a movie that's happening to someone else. It's happening to you. It's happening right now."However, I think The Paladin Prophecy would have been much better on the big screen.