Michael Vey 8: The Parasite

This is a great redemption of the author to start the second series off, and even give them another enemy (or 3...). Now based on the multiple books I've read I'll assume the next few books will be about Saving Tara from the Jungle, Find/Saving Abigail from the Lung Li, and going against Jack (and the social brainwashing) finally having the 3rd sprout from the Tree Dream to emerge sometime between these books and the finale. The reason I rated it so low is that the writing is mostly bland/lackluster and cliché'd, but in either case it is pretty good for the introduction into the second incarnation of the series.

Even tho I feel like book 7 was a slightly disappointing end to the series, I still feel like I had a positive experience as a teenager with the series. Book 8 is a big drop in quality. Their are character assassinations, events happen that disregards information you know from previous books, and zero character development. A lot of dialog could have been cut and replaced with something better for us to understand our older main protagonists, I felt like the first few books did this much better. Please don't continue past book 8 and save your money (book 9 is somehow worse, and book 10 is only a little better, maybe). Please save your money and pretend that book 7 was the end of the series