Seven Wonders Book 5: The Legend of the Rift audiobook

i really want to know if Jack ends up with Aly

This was a really good book to finish off the series. The end is like every other book with a bad guy, and a good guy. However the last couple pages after they defeat the bad guy is kind of like a cliffhanger because it introduces a new world where the main character is a normal regular person, and just ends without any extra information, or without an explanation of how that happened. This book has a lot of twists and unexpected events like when who you thought were the bad guys, end up joining with the good guys. Overall this book, and the entire series were great, and they were about my 3rd favorite series.

This is the final book of the series and as book four ended on a bit of a cliff hanger, boy was I eager to read this. With the twists and turns you'll come to expect in this series, not much goes as planned. Thankfully the ending is satisfying and wraps up the series nicely. I enjoyed the author's writing style and hope to read more from him in the future. Hoping anything else is just as good as this series was.

I absolutely loved this book. It contained the right amount of mystery, suspense, and action. Jack and his friends must save their lives by finding seven magic loculi. They find the last three loculi in this book to complete their quest. They also travel back in time to Atlantis. I would recommend this book to someone who likes action, suspense, and a little bit of mystery.

GREAT BOOK! WISH THERE WERE MORE

The Legend of the Rift is the fifth and final book in the Seven Wonders series written by Peter Lerangis and illustrated by Torstein Norstrand. The series concludes as Jack McKinley and his friends try to save themselves and, while they're at it, the world.Jack McKinley, Aly Black, Marco Ramsey, and Cass Williams just had two Loculi to collect at different ancient wonders of the world when disaster strikes – the rift opens up on Atlantis, carrying Aly and the Loculus of Strength back into ancient times before closing again.A massive earthquake then rocks the island in the present, causing the island to sway and partially sink. Jack, Marco, and Cass don't think they have much time to find the other Loculi before Atlantis disappears for good. Adding to their problems, warring factions on the island need to make peace before they can move forward and when a shaky truce enables the Selects to head off on their next Loculus quest – the Temple of Artemis, which is a dangerous fortress crawling with supersized Amazon warriors.The Legend of the Rift is written rather well. The narrative is action-packed with lots of complicated subplots to wrap up this high octane pentalogy. The Amazons, giant blob beasts, and underwater escapes are exciting, but the character depth is rather shallow as well as their motivations.Overall, the Seven Wonders series was written rather well. The series is based on Greek mythology and set around the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Jack McKinley discovers a secret organization on a hidden island, and becomes the leader of a mission to retrieve seven lost magical orbs. As Jack and his three friends realize their lives are at stake, they have no choice but to accept the quest and embark on the challenge. The narrative is high on action octane, but rather sparse on character motivation and growth.All in all, The Legend of the Rift is written rather well and is a wonderful conclusion to an equally wonderful series.

My name is Jack, and I only have a few more months to live. All of us Selects will die on our fourteenth birthdays if we can't find a way to reunite all seven Loculi. Each one enhances an ability, the Loculus of healing has been very handy, but they must be destroyed in order to correct history. Unfortunately, the followers of Massarym and Karai are fighting over the fate of the Loculi, and my friends and I are always caught in the middle. We must travel to the last two Wonders of the World, collect the last two Loculi, and travel through the rift to an ancient world. Hopefully, we'll save Aly and end this curse that's been killing Selects for centuries. Recent events give me hope that we'll be successful, but there's still a nagging feeling that something unexpected will complicate things. I enjoyed this conclusion to the series, but I wish I'd read the previous book more recently. It'd been six years, so I'd forgotten most of the past events. However, this book contained plenty of action, mystery, and suspense to carry the plot without knowing past details. Jack was leader of the Selects and displayed the uncertainty of being thrust into that position. His decisions were complicated by new revelations about characters and past events. This all created tension and suspense to keep the plot interesting. It was a bit unusual that the touch of a Select was necessary to activate the Loculi. Imagine several kids holding hands and touching the Loculus of Language to understand what someone else was saying. It made sense, but it was strange. It was also unusual that there wasn't a clear antagonist for most of the book. The main conflict was like fulfilling a quest to return the Loculi through the rift, but there wasn't an actual bad guy until the book neared the end. Overall, I really enjoyed the series and recommend you give it a shot. You'll probably appreciate it more than I did, because you'll read all the books straight through. You won't wait six years to finish the series!

Well, Peter Lerangis managed to pull it off. After Seven Wonders #3 and #4, my interest in the series had seriously begun to decline. But Lerangis pulled it all together in this final run. I actually had trouble putting it down, which is saying something. It was fast-paced, energetic, and emotional. There was a real sense of urgency to the book which you shared with the characters; whenever something went wrong, I felt the same frustration that the characters did. This sympathy also extends to the characters' struggles with trust. The uneasiness which came with the alliance between the Karai Institute and their long-time enemies the Massarym was felt throughout the entirety of their interactions. The book ends with a satisfactory and surprising ending which I honestly think was probably one of the only ways it could have concluded. I gave a number of answers, but still left some questions open for the reader to interpret.Jack, the protagonist, developed the most in this book. His leadership abilities, present throughout the entire book, were finally realized by himself and others. However, some aspects of his character, such as his whole claim to the Atlantian throne, were left up in the air with little direct resolution. Overall though, he developed well enough to satisfy the reader in the end.Marco and Cass had little development, but they developed enough in the previous four books to warrant their neglect in this one. Two characters who actually suffered from Lerangis' neglect were Eloise and Aly. Eloise remained a static and unchanging character, with little to redeem her aggravating nature. This could be explained by her being more of a child than the rest of the cast, but if this was a case, her role should have been less prominent. Aly suffered the most, though. She was a fantastic character with great relationships in the previous book, and her absence through the majority of the book is sorely felt. However, when she does make a return, that hole is never filled. She returns to the story, but never returns to that place of prominence she held throughout the rest of the book.Overall, Lerangis managed to pull things together to end his series in a satisfying manner. Though I complained of Eloise and Aly, the main focus of most of the book is on Jack, Cass, and Marco. Those three characters carry this story to a great conclusion to a good series. I'd recommend this series highly, not only to the younger audiences, but to older ones as well. It was a breath of fresh air to me, and I think it will be to others as well.

** spoiler alert ** AHHHHHHH!!!! Be still my beating heart, I'm fangirling so bad right now. Oh my gosh, I loved the ending build-up!!! I'm usually into YA fantasy, but I must say I loved this middle grade book! The unexpected betrayals, the bending of reality, Aly+Jack. I just can't. I highly recommend this entire series, it starts off a little slow but picks up considerable by the second book. And leaves the fourth book off on a crazy cliffhanger. THE SELECTMarco: This kid is hilarious, he is so laid back and chill. A much needed comic relief when situations get tough. His betrayal in the second book had me really upset though. Good thing he fixed it. All in all, love you Marco.Cass: At first he was really shy, but as the book progressed he gets braver. And I love his fighting-but-actually-protective love of his little sister. It's so sweet. Aly: I love this girl. She is so feisty and smart. One of my favorite characters by far, this girl makes the best of her situations and is a tech genius. Also she should totally date Jack. They are adorable! "I heard you say it Jack McKinnley, you said 'I love you', I heard it." -One of my all time favorite parts.Jack: Ah, Jack McKinnley, where to start? The tailor, the destroyed, the one who brings it all together. This guy is all that and more. I love how he always tries so hard and loves a good problem. He is a great main character and shapes up to be a pretty good leader too. And finally, Eloise: I'm so happy that Cass got her for a little sister😝 because she is INCREDIBLE. No more needs to be said.

I raced through this series almost immediately after finishing the Percy Jackson/Olympians books.Maybe I'm jaded, maybe I'm too old for this type of series, but after Rowling and Rick Riordan, each series seems a little less special than the last. I was grateful for the 'primer' on the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (with maps on the endpapers of every volume as a reminder and a resource), so I found that aspect very interesting. Atlantis has long been a source of fascination for writers and readers of speculative fiction, but I almost didn't see enough of Atlantis as the series went on. That's a minor quibble.In the Harry Potter movies, Daniel Radcliffe mentions there's a "Wow! I love magic." moment in each of the early films, certainly, and that sense of wonder is vital to the success of these fantasy adventure series. It's almost not enough to make it believable, to make it seem logically real, but there has to be moments of wonder and awe when the reader encounters these ... Wonders.I suppose I'm saying, it sort of worked for me. I enjoyed it, but wasn't in awe myself, over it.

This book talk is for a book that I have recently read and enjoyed very much called The Seven Wonders, The Colossus Rises written by Peter Lerangis and I am very excited to share it with you.He wakes every morning from a strange dream. He is running from a terrifying beast. It is no use. He knows that he is running to his death anyways. The ground opens up beneath him. He wakes just before he hits the ground.Jack is a normal kid from Bellville, Indiana, except that his mom died when he was six and ever since, his dad has been going on so many business trips that he is barely ever home. Jack also just discovered that he has a very rare genetic disease called G7W, that will kill him in one year on his fourteenth birthday but turns your best ability into a superpower, and is taken away to a secret lab on the island of Atlantis where his own ancestors are from. On the island he meets three others like him called the select, named Marco who is amazingly strong, Aly who is a technology genius, and Cass who is able to give directions to anywhere from anywhere.Now Jack and his new friends must retrieve the loculi, seven relics holding the ancient power of Atlantis that each give the user a certain power. The loculi are also the only thing that can save Jack and his friends from their death that is quickly approaching.But the loculi are scattered around the world hidden at the sites of the seven wonders of the ancient world, six of which have been destroyed for centuries. Another thing to make matters worse is that the only people able to retrieve the loculi are the select, meaning Jack, Marco, Aly, and Cass are the only ones able to find the ancient artifacts that are the only thing that can save them.As Jack soon discovers, his G7W ability is nothing and he begins to wonder if he should even be with the rest of the select or if this whole thing is a mistake.As the select begin their quest to recover the first loculus of the seven, they have no idea what they are getting into.This book is one of my favorites with characters that stick with you long after you finish, I hope that you enjoy it as much as I have.