Overview of plot (beware, spoilers):
Sophie and Fitz are attacked by Gethen, Umber, and Ruy. The Neverseen members inform Sophie that the caches they have are fake. Sophie and Fitz are seriously injured, which results in them staying in the Healing Center for what seems like an eternity.
Sophie learns from Lady Zillah that she carries the echoes of shadowflux from the Neverseen's attack. The echoes carry rage.
Sophie and Keefe begin skill training in the Healing Center. Elwin now knows that Leto is Forkle.
Fintan asks to meet with Sophie and Fitz. Meanwhile, Sophie and Fitz help Keefe search through his memories. They find one memory where Lady Gisela has Keefe deliver an envelope to a man in London.
Mr. Forkle takes Dex and Sophie to meet Tinker, the Black Swan's technopath. Tinker hates fire, and she was recruited by Wraith. She is the tallest elf Sophie has ever seen, and she has curly red hair.
Dex will begin working with Tinker on several projects.
Sophie now has five bodyguards, including the troll, Tarina. Tarina proposes an alliance with Sophie.
Sophie begins weapons training with her bodyguards. Alvar begins his stay at Everglen.
Silveny goes into premature labor with twins. Tarina tells Sophie that the trolls have pods that can be used to save the twins. Sophie agrees to a troll alliance so that Tarina will help Silveny.
The troll hive used to be at Everglen, but now it is on Luzia Vacker's property.
Sophie and Fitz come to an understanding where they are kind of boyfriend and girlfriend, but not quite. They also finally meet with Fintan.
The Council, Collective, and others discuss whether to cancel the Celestial Festival, after Fintan indicates that the Neverseen have some kind of plan. The Council and the Black Swan work together to make sure that the festival is safe.
During the Celestial Festival, the Neverseen get inside Everglen and open up a secret troll hive with very powerful newborn trolls. Umber is killed. Later, Lady Gisela injects both alicorns with soporodine. Tam is forced to join the Neverseen as their new Shade to replace Umber. The alicorns will be given an antidote in return.
A tribunal is held for Luzia. The Vackers are investigated. Alden removes the gates to Everglen, so that it won't appear that they are hiding anything.
Sophie decides to register for the match. She learns that she is unmatchable.
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Keeper of the Lost Cities Summaries, Reviews, and Theories
I skimmed over half the book on this third reading. This is my least favorite book in the series.
Page 33: "One room does, yes," Alden agreed. "The space I use for my personal office has been there since the beginning. Why does that matter?" "I can't say for certain." Fallon's eyes shifted to Bronte. "But things from our past are often more than they seem."
Fallon knows something, and it is connected to Bronte somehow.
Page 39: Fallon hummed a few bars of a soft melody, and Sophie wondered if he realized he was losing credibility with every note. "That doesn't sound familiar?" "Can't say that it does," Alina told him. He hummed a few more beats, rocking back on his heels. "I believe it's from a wedding. I can see the gown so clearly. It looked like... spun sunlight. And I think there was some sort of commotion. Wait! You were the one who interrupted!"
I love this. I suspect that Fallon is dissing Alina on purpose. He's pretending to be half out of it, when he knows exactly what he is doing. There's more to Fallon than meets the eye.
Page 104: "Cyrah was no fool. She knew anything she told you would put you in danger. But she also knew that something might happen to her if she chose to cross us, and then the information would be lost. If she'd written it down, I would've found it by now. So she must've had one of her Telepath friends hide her secrets deep in your head."
Cyrah was married to Prentice, who is a Telepath. Did Prentice hide something in Wylie's brain? If he did, then he apparently doesn't remember doing it.
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