Everblaze - Shannon Messenger (KOTLC #3) [Review]

Title: Everblaze [Keeper of the Lost Cities #2]

Author: Shannon Messenger

Genre: Middle grade, Fantasy, Fiction

Publisher: Aladdin

Publishing date: November 4^th, 2014

Pages: 624

Rating

★★★★✩

 Hello! I’m finally reviewing the third installment of Keeper of the Lost Cities, now it’s pretty hard to write my own synopsis without spoiling everything, so I’ll just copy the one in Goodreads:

            Sophie Foster is ready to fight back. Her talents are getting stronger, and with the elusive

Black Swan group ignoring her calls for help, she’s determined to find her kidnappers—before they come after her again. But a daring mistake leaves her world teetering on the edge of war, and causes many to fear that she has finally gone too far. And the deeper Sophie searches, the farther the conspiracy stretches, proving that her most dangerous enemy might be closer than she realizes.

            I totally loved this installment, it has action nonstop since the beginning, so the whole book is fast paced and really entertaining with action, sad moments, funny moments and a plot that unravels some mysteries but also arises even more questions.

Event: Shannon Messenger in San Diego

Hello, on Thursday November 17, 2016 I had the chance to attend the signing of Shannon Messenger

Fifth installment of KOTLC

at the bookstore Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego.

            Shannon Messenger is the author of the Keeper of the Lost Cities series, and the Sky Fall trilogy. The reason of her visit to San Diego was the tour she is doing for the release of the fifth installment of Keeper of the Lost Cities, Lodestar. The event was supposed to start at 6:00 pm, but it started a few minutes late. Messenger looked tired, and with a good reason, she flew from Arizona straight to San Diego.

            The first part of the event was a talk about the new book, the author thanked the public for being there and talked about how successful the series has become thanks to the fans, now Keeper of the Lost Cities is in the list of bestselling series of the New York Times.

            After the talk the event took the format of a Q&A session, the public was really participative, and most of the participants were kids (I felt so old), during the session Messenger said interesting things about the series, how she became an author, what is like to be an author, and some tips to aspiring authors.