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I’m sorry to say, this was the least favorable book I have read..or in this case listen too. I ignored the other poor reviews as I felt obligated to hear the entire stories in this series. However, that was a mistake and the reviews that advised this book had little if no relation to the prior books was spot on. Not to mention the actual story told was bad and uninteresting. A 10 year old roaming a new town by herself is unrealistic and hearing about old people jabberings is boring. The author wastes 30 chapters telling a lackluster tale and then the last chapter tries to tell 50 years of “what ever happened to” follow ups. No real story here. I agree with others that this was a separate book the author threw in this series. Only the last 2 pages linked to the first book and it wasn’t even new information! It was the same info we learned at the end of book one. I do not recommend readers buy this book. Skip it and buy book 4, and you will still know everything I do without having to sat through a badly written, unrelated story. Shame on the author for this one as it seemed more like background notes that was hurriedly thrown together to count as a book? It doesn’t.


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The Prophet of Yonwood Ember Book 3 Jeanne DuPrau Books Reviews

My 8-year old daughter read the first books in this series and absolutely loved them. I even read the first one (City of Ember), and it was GREAT. I decided to read this one in advance because I was concerned about some of the themes handled therein. There is a very, very strong ethical message here, as the main character attempts to avert catastrophe by being on the side of "goodness," but "goodness" ends up being misunderstood. There's a strong religious flavor to it, as well. The town where the book takes place is obsessed with an extremely legalistic, fictional sect of Christianity, and the ethical ponderings are sort of couched in that environment.

There are three major problems with this book.

1) It's actually very boring, compared to the others in the series. There's not much action or adventure. It's an "inward" book.
2) It has very little to do with the other Ember books. It's billed as a prequel, but you wouldn't know it from reading it.
3) The religious/ethical sensibilities in the book are extremely confused. In the previous books, this was part of the charm - the characters have grown up in a world so very different from our own. But in this prequel, they take place now or in the very near future, in our world. It damages the suspension of disbelief.

I have another issue that will be important for some readers, but not for others. As a Christian parent, I am also sensitive to the way religious, ethical, and theological issues are handled in juvenile fiction. In the first two books, I thought Jeanne DuPrau did a marvelous job of creating a world where questions of ultimate importance are teased out and given to young readers in ways for them to explore. This one just seemed strange and uncomfortable, in comparison, and presents the reader with what appears to be DuPrau's own answers to these questions as though they were self-evident to reasonable people, coming as they do from the most sensible characters in the book. I don't think this is a fatal flaw, but Christian parents should be aware if their child reads the book that DuPrau implies a false dilemma between a sort of "common sense deism" and legalistic religion. I don't think she intentionally closes the door to a more traditional Christian ethic, but she eliminates it by giving only one alternative to legalism. Be ready to talk with your kid about what love really is, and how we ought to live in the world where we find ourselves.

This would be a greater problem for me, but honestly, I wonder whether my daughter will even finish the book.
This one goes far off the storyline of city of ember and actually only catches up at the end. Unlike the other books, this one is not really a fast paced page turner.
The Prophet of Yonwood is (for some reason) the third book in the four-book City Of Ember Series. The story loosely fills in the background for the readers on why Ember was started. However, DuPrau's book is slow and needlessly detailed in trivial items. The book eventually gets to the point of the why's and wherefor's of the birth of the City of Ember, but much of the book is worthless. 3/4 of the book is filled with basically "teen angst" and could easily be cut without affecting the book. Essentially "Yonwood" descends into the kind of "teen book" that I felt DuPrau had resisted in the other three volumes - further distancing this book in quality from the rest of the Ember series. Beyond that, DuPrau only briefly touches on the beginnings of Ember which left many gaps in what we thought should have been explained, leaving both my son and I wondering about what could have been. We got through it, but we were mostly pushing through just to push through. We were both very happy when DuPrau release a 4th book so that the series wouldn't end on such a low note.

In my opinion, the Ember series should have been a trilogy with this book tacked on as prequel adder - much like what John Christopher did when he released When the Tripods Came 20 yrs after his Tripods Trilogy. Anyone who reads the Ember series should view "Yonwood" as an optional title to read if/when you feel like it and not as a necessary addition to the series. If you do read it, anticipate skimming pages and pages of useless filler material.
With thrill and excitement of books 1 and 2 number 3 was very disappointing. Not until the last couple and I mean couple of pages do you see how this book connects. The author did a disservice to their readers. I should have given it only one star.
I’m sorry to say, this was the least favorable book I have read..or in this case listen too. I ignored the other poor reviews as I felt obligated to hear the entire stories in this series. However, that was a mistake and the reviews that advised this book had little if no relation to the prior books was spot on. Not to mention the actual story told was bad and uninteresting. A 10 year old roaming a new town by herself is unrealistic and hearing about old people jabberings is boring. The author wastes 30 chapters telling a lackluster tale and then the last chapter tries to tell 50 years of “what ever happened to” follow ups. No real story here. I agree with others that this was a separate book the author threw in this series. Only the last 2 pages linked to the first book and it wasn’t even new information! It was the same info we learned at the end of book one. I do not recommend readers buy this book. Skip it and buy book 4, and you will still know everything I do without having to sat through a badly written, unrelated story. Shame on the author for this one as it seemed more like background notes that was hurriedly thrown together to count as a book? It doesn’t.