Legacy of Light

I don't remember the last time I was so disappointed in a book that I was looking forward to so much. I mean...I'm not entirely sure what I just read.

There are some good points in the book - like the awesome feminism, the point Lake makes that the POC Effigies aren't there to just be POC Effigies - and I love the fact that we finally have a series about people with special powers that isn't, really, a book about people from America with special powers. That goes for the previous two books in the series, as well. But this book...

It feels like the first two books were cohesive, that they were working towards an obvious end. This book doesn't even fit in the general feel. It was political (which meant I found it boring) and until the final fifth, I don't even remember a single phantom battle on screen. (It could have been there, considering that I think it took me about two months to read this book, but still.)

So much of the first 150 pages Maia is not even around the other Effigies and to me that's when this story is at it's worst. That's why it took me so long to get involved with the first book. Because the only Effigy I like less than Maia is Belle and she was the second one we actually dealt with in this book. (As well as the first book, too.)

And I reread the first two books before reading this one. Where was the foreshadowing? Where were any hints that the big reveal was going to be damn goddesses? I mean, what the hell was that even?

No, I'm sorry, the first two books were awesome. This one doesn't even feel like the same story to me.