With Ambroses death, Mechanic Green is devastated and blames Liana. Her best fighter, Madics, is now out for the count and isn’t going to be able to join for the rest of the tourney. The last challenge awaits, the battle of the bells.
Will Liana be able to stay out of Greens crosshairs, win the tourney, all without her biggest ally?
Review
This book is filled with action from the very beginning. Like her last series this book is right in the middle so you have good character and story building. Plenty to keep you reading from beginning to end. Looking forward to the next book coming out.
Allison from Goodreads
The main character doesn’t seem to grow or mature from her many harrowing experiences — she continues to be an insecure, self-doubting individual even though she is a successful leader of her group.
Kathryn Joy from Goodreads
Challenges that would make most people cringe and Liana and others find a way over, under or around to get the truth about what really matters. Can’t wait for book 5 at the end of the month….Who will head up the Knights and will they save everyone…
Deb from Goodreads
Spoilers
Mechanic Green is now trying to find any excuse to get rid of Liana but needs her to become the Champion simply because there is no-one else on her side within the Knights. Liana and her group now have to get through the final two challenges.
The first challenge (which was my personal favorite of all the challenges), is the best thing to happen to Liana. In this challenge, each team is randomly put together with two other teams. Now there are two sides with 12 people on each team. At the very beginning, Liana’s new group member wants to be in charge so Liana lets her. But after a few minutes of the leaders of each of the three groups arguing about who should be in charge, Liana just goes around to all the other team members and puts them to work to create defenses.
Doing this inadvertently makes Liana in charge. The three other leaders are furious but can’t do anything about it because that would look even worse on them. The battle commences and Liana has proven to be the best leader there is amongst everyone else there.
(A small point that comes up later, in one of the groups that Liana is with, her parents are fighting along with her. Liana never has gotten along with them and hasn’t talked to them since the first book. Now her mom feels really bad about the way they treated her and wants to pay her back somehow.)
Next challenge comes and it is the battle of the bells. This challenge is in the largest room of the tower with rotating columns people need to use perfect par-core skills to get through this and ring the bells before anyone else. Fighting is allowed. About halfway up, Liana comes in contact with her mom and sees that she is trying to help her. Then a sentinel brakes through the wall and starts to kill contestants.
A sentinel is a machine build 100 years before the events in this book takes place. Liana says screw the tournament and tries to fight it. Her mom joins her and sacrifices herself to save Liana.
Now Liana’s mom is dead.
The book ends with Liana losing her mom, and Likely to lose the tournament. Mechanic Green is going to have a fit and lock Liana and her gang up forever.
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