A review by biblioflick
Immortal Guardians by Eliot Schrefer

3.0


Thanks edelweiss for providing an e-ARC of the book.

Honestly, I only read the series for one reason - [a:Marie Lu|4342215|Marie Lu|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1285032806p2/4342215.jpg] is going to write the finale of the first series, [b:The Evertree|18114578|The Evertree (Spirit Animals, #7)|Marie Lu|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1417892131s/18114578.jpg|25441832]. But I quite liked the first series and it ended WELL.
But since this is popular to the children (like The 39 Clues) another series have sprung together with the Evertree.

A sequel series is in fact not needed but due to the reason above it went on. The second series focuses more about the history, since the enemy is an ancient one
Spoileran egg that holds the Wyrm cracked when the Evertree died but when it regrew it is still weak and the Wyrm/"worm/parasite" attacked it and causes the Evertree to die. And dying Evertree=something bad will happen to the bond between spirit animals and humans.
This book took place after 6 months, if I correctly remembered, the last book had ended.

The team will split into two, Abeke and Rollan will find the other Fallen Beasts,
Spoilerthey will find Tellun,
while Meilin and Connor
Spoilerwho is infected by the Wyrm and is healed by Jhi
is the one tasked to discover why the Evertree is dying together with an unusual ally,
Kovo. I really liked Meilin and Connor's adventure more than Abeke and Rollan's (in fact I didn't find theirs enjoyable).

The pacing is the book is good, especially on Meilin and Connor. Some chapters are too long while the others are short (that made me believe that it is short and I ended in reading the whole book in a few hours). But all in all I liked this book and after the cliffhanger on both teams, I can't wait to read the sequel plus the author is [a:Victoria Schwab|3099544|Victoria Schwab|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1336685438p2/3099544.jpg], who wrote [b:The Archived|10929432|The Archived (The Archived, #1)|Victoria Schwab|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1338729878s/10929432.jpg|15846509], [b:Vicious|13638125|Vicious|V.E. Schwab|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1362495700s/13638125.jpg|19250870] and [b:A Darker Shade of Magic|22055262|A Darker Shade of Magic (A Darker Shade of Magic, #1)|V.E. Schwab|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1400322851s/22055262.jpg|40098252], I can't wait more of the adventures of the four heroes.