In the previous book, for two years Fallon Swift will train with Mallick and it will be hard. He will offer her an indoor bathroom if she completes three tasks: get the apple from the owl Taibhse, get the golden collar from the wolf Faol Ban, and find the horse Laoch with the golden saddle. Each of these a seemingly impossible task, but ones that she figures out. Before the two years will have come to a close, she will have found the Book of Spells and taken the knowledge into herself and lifted the shield and sword. But she is not yet ready to lead and stays on to train a while longer until her two years are up before going home. Once home she talks to her parents and they train the boys, but that isn't enough. She must start building her army and with the help of her dad, she goes through the town and begins a training program. Soon, though, she must leave and begin training programs throughout the land on the way to New Hope in order to begin at New Hope what was started so long ago. She has a crystal ball that she can see things in and step through and go to places via it. When she sees during her training that the New Hope rescue team, who is out to rescue magicals from a government lab, is walking into a trap she steps through and warns them and offers an alternative plan and helps them with it. It is here that she finally meets Duncan, one of the twins, whom she has been dreaming about and his twin Tonia, two people who will be important to her in the future in helping her.
In this book, Fallon has become The One and is leading the people of New Hope. But she has grand plans of taking a new installation in Utah, the one at the beach in South Carolina, and the huge one at Arlington all in one night. It's an ambitious plan that will take careful timing and planning. Meanwhile, she sees Duncan for the first time in almost two years in a flash dream where they meet up and make out a bit. Neither one wants to be bound to the other as it is fated basically because it is fated.
Next will come to D.C. where they are experimenting on magicals and have been for over twenty years. They've also been impregnating the women in order to get more magicals to experiment on. And they've been gathering up the nation's wealth and hoarding it. D.C. will be a place to keep prisoners--not a place to live or govern out of anymore. The big fight will be New York, though it won't be the last fight. That will take place in Scotland where the whole thing started. Fallon will still have to face Allegra and Petra who has a mighty evil dragon.
This book wasn't as good as the other two. It dragged on at the end and I felt could have ended sooner. It was still a great book and a fine ending to the series. I think I related to Duncan a bit too much who was always rushing things and got irritated with her cutting him off when she goes away for a while. Fallon was a stellar character who was amazing to watch evolve, even if sometimes you wanted to throttle her. I give this book four out of five stars.
Quotes
“Your ancestors slaughtered mine, sole their land, brought them disease and starvarion.” “Maybe. My mother’s people came from Scotland. The English slaughtered out people, stole their land, burned their homes. But if some English dude’s ready to fight with me against the PW’s, the DUs, and the rest of the guckers, I don’t give a rat’s ass about what his ancestors did to mine. This is now.”-Nora Roberts (Chronicles of the One Book Three: The Rise of Magicks p 162)“A coward shoots in the back.” “Or an opportunist.”-Nora Roberts (Chronicles of the One Book Three: The Rise of Magicks p 184)
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