A review by pandacat42
Seeds of Rebellion by Brandon Mull

4.0

The zombies and the oracle brought this book down to a four for me. The Torivors were kind of cool and creepy. Loved that last sword fight, that was kind of awesome. This book was easily becoming more interesting than the last. But the journey to get to the Oracle was lame and the way she had to poison herself to see into the future was lame. I'm also annoyed with what she saw. I know writers have to make the chances of winning seem slim, but seriously, I thought the book could have done without The Oracle altogether. The Oracle was too much of a detour for me. And now it looks like conditions have to be perfect in order to win. Seems a bit out there to me. Okay, now that I've ranted on that. I certainly had the perfect recipe for nightmares between the Torivors and the Walking Dead. I am so not a zombie fan. There are reasons I don't seek out material with zombies. I could handle the Torivors because they were the perfect combination of interesting and scary. There are many other elements in the story I love. Rachel is learning Edomic. She undid a wizard monster. The group found a load of Oriantum. Jasher is back. The giant is kind of cool. Though I have to say that the giant town totally creeped me out. Okay, I seriously loved so much of this book. Just take away the zombies and the oracle, and add a little more of the brilliance that created the Torivors and the little people that turn into giants. My two cents.