The Rise of Magicks by Nora Roberts

The Rise of Magicks (Chronicles of the One, #3)

by Nora Roberts

'On the shield, one of seven forged in the timeless past to hold back the dark, fell a single drop of blood. So the shield weakened, and the dark, spider-patient, waited as the decades passed, and the wound spread under the grass and ground.'

The brilliant conclusion to the Chronicles of the One trilogy - an epic story of love, war, family and magic.

Fallon Swift has spent all her life preparing for this moment. No longer can she stand by whilst her fellow Magicks are hunted by the fanatical Purity Warriors or rounded up and experimented on by the government.

Fallon must follow her destiny to restore the magical shield that once protected them all. But she can't do it alone. It is time to build her army, to take on her nemesis and take down the enemy.

She has learned to fight, now she must restore the light and banish the dark forever. The final battle has begun...


Series praise:

'A match for end-of-the-world classics like Stephen King's The Stand' - New York Times Review of Books

'Breathtaking' - Heat

Reviewed by Melanie on

5 of 5 stars

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4.5 stars.

Review originally posted at BooksOfMyHeart.net.

This is the third and final book in The Chronicles of The One trilogy. This is a series you must read in order to follow the storyline. So this follows Fallon Swift, who was born in an apocalyptic world where the Doom has wiped out a large portion of the population of the planet. Then you have the people who survived, many of them become supernatural creatures, shifters, fairies, elves, witches and more. There are also people who stay strictly human.

Fallon is destined to lead the light, people who want to see happiness for all. She must help protect these people from those who seek to just harm. There are the Dark Uncannies, supernaturals who use their new powers just to take what others have, the Purity Warriors, who are humans who use religion to demonize anyone with supernatural powers and then raiders who are sometimes a mixed group and just take from the weak because they can.

After reading all three books, I have to say I just fell in love with all the characters in these stories. This is my first time reading Roberts and I love how she creates characters. I really feel an intense love and sometimes an intense dislike for the characters she developed with these stories. I really rooted for them to win each fight and I mourned the loss of the ones who didn’t make it, just like the characters did. I like watching Fallon, Dillion, Mick and the others grow from children to warriors.

Ending a series can be extremely difficult. I’ve read some I loved and many that really disappointed me. I can strongly say this series falls into the first category. I thought Roberts did a great job bringing the story to a great ending. I’m sure it will not be the last series I read by Nora Roberts.

Narration:
Julia Whelan does an amazing job with the narration of this series. It has a very large cast of diverse characters, from children to an extremely old Malik. She really made you feel all the different emotions of the characters from anger to sadness to joy. I really feel that she brought something extra to make this story come alive in her telling of it.

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