The battle lines are drawn: it's destiny versus free will, good versus evil, but the boundaries between are much blurrier than they seem. Pacat specializes in these kinds of revelations that alter, in retrospect, every scene that came before them, and sudden twists lurk throughout Dark Rise to keep the plot plunging forward and the brave, determined characters in thrall to their dark fates. That sense of dark, looming destiny courses through the novel, building to a stunning twist of a climax that will make your stomach drop. No matter how hard Will, Violet, and the Stewards fight it, there are chilling signs that history is set to repeat itself. And Will's new friend Violet is caught between the two worlds: she's a student of the Stewards, but they don't know that her family is one of Simon's staunchest allies. Figures from the ancient past are reborn in terrifying new forms. Stewards are dying while the Dark King's descendant, the shadowy Simon Creen, clears the way for his return. Will learns he might be the missing piece, the only one who can defeat the Dark King, but the magic the Stewards swear is inside of him remains locked up tight, and time is running out. "When familiar heroes falter, who is left to fight?" and all signs show that he's coming, and fast. All that remains are the Stewards, an ancient order of knight-like guardians who keep watch over the world should the Dark King ever return.
Magic once was real, he learns, but it died along with the rest of the old world in a catastrophic battle between the forces of light and darkness. Suddenly, Will is ripped from the world he knew in a series of stunning revelations.
Will must find a group called the Stewards, or else "darkness will come for us all."
Then an old servant reappears with a cryptic message: something evil is rising in the world. In this first book of a planned YA trilogy, would-be hero Will is 16 years old and working as a dock boy in 19th century London, secretly on the run from the mysterious men who murdered his mother. 28) and you'll realize you've never seen them done like this before. These elements might sound familiar, but crack open C.S. An orphaned hero plucked out of obscurity.
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