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A review by vidhi26p
Generation One by Pittacus Lore
4.0
3.5 Stars
This was a starkly contrasting novel in comparison to the original Lorien Legacy series. First and foremost, the characters aren’t introduced cautiously and organically, but are rather thrown into the readers face, as we start off with 4 different POVs. Which is normal and fine usually, but felt awkward in this world and vastly different from what I expected. Second, the stakes are considerably lowered as our new cast of heroes are no longer fighting for the survival of the world as we know it and instead are merely fighting smaller battles. Untrained and green, these heroes are thrust into the throes of battle against their greatest enemy — themselves.
Overall, if you’re yearning for a return to the world Pittacus Lore splendidly illustrated in the Lorien Legacies, this novel isn’t for you. Besides our devilishly handsome and favorite Garde Nine — this is a new generation with new battles to fight and the background with the Mogadorian Invasion might as well not even have occurred for its importance in this novel and the lives of most of the characters. As lovely as it was hearing Nine’s vivid insults again, this remained your average “teens with superpowers fight supposed bad guys” novel with its stereotypical tropes — nothing remotely close to the magnificence of its predecessor series. Nonetheless, if read for pure entertainment and without begetting comparison to the Lorien Legacies, it still remains a fairly mediocre and passable work of fantasy.
This was a starkly contrasting novel in comparison to the original Lorien Legacy series. First and foremost, the characters aren’t introduced cautiously and organically, but are rather thrown into the readers face, as we start off with 4 different POVs. Which is normal and fine usually, but felt awkward in this world and vastly different from what I expected. Second, the stakes are considerably lowered as our new cast of heroes are no longer fighting for the survival of the world as we know it and instead are merely fighting smaller battles. Untrained and green, these heroes are thrust into the throes of battle against their greatest enemy — themselves.
Overall, if you’re yearning for a return to the world Pittacus Lore splendidly illustrated in the Lorien Legacies, this novel isn’t for you. Besides our devilishly handsome and favorite Garde Nine — this is a new generation with new battles to fight and the background with the Mogadorian Invasion might as well not even have occurred for its importance in this novel and the lives of most of the characters. As lovely as it was hearing Nine’s vivid insults again, this remained your average “teens with superpowers fight supposed bad guys” novel with its stereotypical tropes — nothing remotely close to the magnificence of its predecessor series. Nonetheless, if read for pure entertainment and without begetting comparison to the Lorien Legacies, it still remains a fairly mediocre and passable work of fantasy.