Overview of plot (beware, spoilers):
Sophie agrees to carry a message to King Dimitar from Lady Gisela.
Dex continues to try to get into Fintan's cache.
Mr. Forkle reveals that he is still alive and that his secret identical twin was the Mr. Forkle who died. Sophie learns that the surviving Forkle was the one who reset her memories and the one who was present as Magnate Leto when the ability restrictor was placed on Sophie. The late Forkle is the one who rescued Dex and Sophie and left them in Paris.
Mr. Forkle and the kids go to Norway to plant the late Mr. Forkle's seed.
Lady Cadence requests to join the Black Swan, and she wants an ogre-Black Swan alliance. Cadence reveals that she knows that Leto is Forkle.
Dex presents Sophie with crush cuffs with their names on them. Sophie knows that she can't wear them and that she and Dex don't belong together. Sophie kisses Dex as a test, and both of them find it very awkward, so they know they aren't right for each other.
Lady Cadence, Blur, Sophie, and Keefe meet with King Dimitar. They learn that the ogres kept the knowledge of soporodine from the Council. Soporodine is an extremely strong sedative.
Keefe bests King Dimitar in a sparring match, so Dimitar gives the starstone to Sophie. Ro is appointed Keefe's new bodyguard, at Lady Gisela's request via the message that Sophie delivered to Dimitar.
Silveny refuses to come visit Sophie.
Lady Gisela gives Sophie advice on how she can rescue her parents from Nightfall. She also informs them that Nightfall was the focus of the mysterious escaped prisoner.
The Neverseen planted wildflowers at the sites of all the Everblaze fires. Gisela's gorgodons were hatched by using the fires. The Black Swan members gather ash, which will help them cover their scents at Nightfall.
Slumberberries, dreamlilies, aethrials, and sweetshades are found at the sites of the fires. These flowers are connected to sleep and dreaming.
Sophie and her friends go to Nightfall and find Alvar inside, beaten up and brutalized. Sophie is devastated that her human parents are not inside the facility. They take Alvar to the Songs' home, Choralmere, where Livvy discovers that Alvar has been given soporodine.
Half of Sophie's group looks for the original Nightfall in Atlantis while the other half searches through the books in the library at Eternalia.
Sophie enters Prentice's mind to catch him up on what has happened over the years. Prentice appears to Sophie as Cirah. Sophie ends up telling Prentice everything and even heals him.
Sophie learns that the name of the escaped prisoner is Vespera.
Lady Gisela tells Sophie that Cyrah was important because of starstones. She still owed Lady Gisela one starstone when she was killed by Gethen.
Lady Gisela leaves scrolls at Sophie's house. Mr. Forkle studies the scrolls and learns that the elves experimented on humans in Atlantis in the original Nightfall. Hundreds of humans disappeared. The humans are not responsible for breaking the treaty with the elves. It was the elves.
Lord Cassius makes a deal with Keefe. Keefe must come live with him at his seaside home. Keefe must also tell Mr. Forkle it's okay to let him join the Black Swan. In return, Lord Cassius tells Keefe that Nightfall is at the Unity Fountain in Atlantis.
Lady Gisela teams up with Vespera after the Black Swan raid Nightfall.
The Neverseen breach the dome that surrounds Atlantis. Linh patches it.
Fintan is taken captive. He requests a private prison and no memory break. In return, he will provide the antidote to soporidine. The Council also demands that Fintan work with Bronte to recover the secrets in his cache.
Sophie's human parents are rescued. Sophie chooses to have herself completely erased from her human parents' memories so that their traumatic memories can never be triggered. Amy gets to keep her memories, and Bronte gets the Fosters settled into a new home.
Alvar awakens, and he has no memory.
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Keeper of the Lost Cities Summaries, Reviews, and Theories
Stop reading NOW if you have only read the series up through to this book. The rest of this post contains plot spoilers from later books in the set.
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Page 43: "We didn't know you'd caught on to Prentice until it was too late," Livvy said quietly. "Even when he called swan song, I thought it had something to do with what he was investigating, not that he was about to be arrested."
What was Prentice investigating? I bet this information is important.
Page 63: [Fintan] shifted the Neverseen's focus to something he'd vaguely called his "vision," which seemed to have something to do with breaking an unidentified prisoner out of the dungeon at Lumenaria.
Since we now know that the original Nightfall involved experimentation on humans by Vespera, this vision must have something to do with humans.
Page 84: The Neverseen had tipped their hand several weeks back, giving a hint of what they needed. They'd kidnapped Prentice's son, Wylie, and interrogated him about his mom's murder.
Page 116: "Fintan was always going on about the wonder of fire and how things need to burn so that something stronger can rise from the ashes."
Page 116: "Fintan wouldn't have abducted Wylie if there wasn't something crucial he needed from him."
Page 125: "Starstones always remember the last place they've been," Lady Gisela confirmed. "I told you that would be important someday."
Cyrah had a starstone, so what the Neverseen need from Wylie might have to do with a starstone.
Page 169: "This area has a rather complicated history. But I shouldn't be the one to tell you that story." "Who should?" Biana asked. "The person who was affected."
I originally thought that Tiergan meant Forkle and that Forkle was affected by Brumevale. I drew that conclusion as I read the book for the first time, since the reader is aware that something very important is about to be revealed and that it is according to Mr. Forkle's wishes. I no longer think that Forkle is the one affected.
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199: Apparently the late Mr. Forkle had told Oralie how to contact the
Black Swan, and Wraith had snuck into the ruins and brought the body
back to one of the Black Swan's hideouts, where Physic made sure it was
given a proper burial.
I now think that the person affected by Brumevale might be Wraith. This is partly because of a vague idea I have due to him being the one to retrieve the late Mr. Forkle's body. But also, it is because we are told in Book 9 that Wraith got the alert when the lighthouse was attacked. If Wraith is the person who got the alert when the lighthouse was attacked, then Wraith might be the one affected by the lighthouse.
Page 201: "You should also know that the balance in the Council is shifting. Those who mistrust your order are finding their voices overruled. I suspect Councillor Emery will be contacting your Collective soon about truly joining forces.
It's interesting to see how far the Council has come with how it views the Black Swan.
Page 202: Oralie frowned. "All I've ever been told is that there is a way to recover the secrets. But the specifics of how have never been explained. Accessing a cache is supposed to require a unanimous vote, so I've always assumed we'd be given instructions then."
I believe Oralie is telling the truth about the process, but she is also lying by omission. She knows exactly how to get into Kenric's cache, since she and Sophie do so in Book 9. She is choosing not to say. Since the plot with Kenric, Forkle, and the Black Swan appears to have been meticulously planned from the beginning of the series, I very much doubt that this is a continuity error. Oralie is keeping information to herself.
Page 451: "All these decisions we keep questioning, like the prejudice against multiple births and the ban on Pyrokinesis? Those are all things Fallon probably decided."
I believe that Fallon is more important than we realize. I have a theory about him, but I have found nothing in the books to support my idea, which is why I don't mention it. I only mention a theory if I can find something to back it up.
Page 480: "Why would the Neverseen make a bunch of soporidine?" "I'm guessing the obvious answer is: to drug a lot of people," Physic said, tilting her head to study Alvar's pale face.
I assume the Neverseen plan to drug humans.
On pages 497 and 498, Tam wonders why Prentice told no one about the Lodestar symbol right before his arrest. Everyone else agrees that it's weird but has no explanation.
I believe that Forkle washed Prentice's memory sometime before Prentice's arrest. Prentice had no idea who was in the Black Swan, so he didn't know who to trust with whatever information he had.
Page 612: "I guess it could be Evespar," Linh said. "Or Apreves, or Pravese, or... are those actually names?" "We could play with ugly anagrams all night," Keefe told her. "Or we could solve this the faster way."
I think this is Shannon's hint to look for anagrams in characters' names.
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