– I saw something that might be a spoiler online and I am hoping with all my heart that it isn’t true. When this scene in the book happened I was imagining a forest/jungle with a few stones here and there as the ‘ruins’ not some intense stained glass window. It looks amazing but doesn’t fit my vision for the scene this cover is showing at all. Plus he’s meant to be super attractive and personally that art doesn’t look it.Īlso, the setting. He looks so different to the other cover he was on. The two guys in the background, one is Tam who is nice to see because he is a fairly new character to the series and hasn’t been on a cover before and the other one is Fitz which I don’t really like. Instead of comparing the different covers I’m going to talk about this one because I have a lot of feelings about it.įirstly the art style is amazing as always, Sophie looks so good and the clothes are really cool. I could only find one cover for this book so the format is going to be a little bit different. The council starts to figure out that thing are going to have to change and start making alterations to how they would normally do things. Lodestar comes to a dramatic close at a peace summit between the species of the world that the Neverseen seem to be far to happy about. Security threats are a constant problem and the kids want to do something to stop the Neverseen but find themselves grasping at straws as to what they can do. Marella and Jensi return and we get an insight into how Sophie’s focus on the Black Swan/Neverseen conflict affected her friendships. The kids (minus Keefe, Tam and Linh) return to Foxfire and we get to see them struggling to fit back into normal society. The Black Swan continues to keep secrets about Sophie’s purpose, their identities and their plan for the future however they do start to be a bit more open with Sophie about some aspects of their operations. Although Keefe told Sophie he had noble intentions of finding out what the Neverseen were up to so he could stop them his trustworthiness throughout this book is questionable, however he also grows a lot while he is away from the other characters and has to rely on his own judgement and really figure out what he believes in.

Lodestar picks up after Keefe has joined the Neverseen, an organisation that is hell bent on wiping the social order to the ground so they can build it back up in a way that suits them.

Note this review will have spoilers for the previous books in the series. You can read my review for the first book in the series, Keeper of the Lost Cities. I have been a fan of these book for year now, since just before the second one came out.

This series is aimed at middle graders however the later book show more ya themes. Lodestar is the fifth book in the Keeper of the Lost Cities series by Shannon Messenger.

Book 5 keeper of the lost cities