Finally! The eagerly anticipated 8th installment in the best-selling Guardians of Ga'Hoole series! The Outcast, as all Guardians of Ga'Hoole fans would most certainly agree, was probably the most exciting and nerve-racking book so far. The tensiom between Coryn (once Nyroc) & Soren, his uncle? I was on the edge of my seat the whole time! This book includes many new phrases, which fans love to add to their vocabulary, like gnaw wolves, creelies, Sacred Ring, cheiftain, lochinvyrr, ect. Well, as most of you know, the series has been following a new character instead of Soren- Nyroc. Nyroc, son of Kludd & Nyra, is heir to the Pure Ones. Not the likely main character choice, eh? However, Nyraoc is, unlike his parents, very kind-hearted! The seventh book ends with him cursing his very father's scroom on the edge of a lake. This is where the Outcast picks up in it's Prologue. In this book, Nyroc changes his name to Coryn, which is Nyroc backwards. It also sounds a lot like Soren. The main point of these 2 books is the tension between an outcast and a guardian, and how they cannot meet eachother, for one is not welcome, and the other one doesn't know the other exists. Coryn, being a shadow king, is not welcome at the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, where his uncle, Soren, lives. To be accepted in the Great Tree, Coryn must retrieve the Ember of Hoole hidden deep within one of the volcanoes of the Sacred Ring, where noble King Hoole hid it 1,000 years ago. If Coryn succeeds, then that means he is the heir of Hoole and that he is king of Ga'Hoole. If Coryn gets the Ember, then he can meet his uncle. Read this book!!! It will be worth everything!!! Trust me!
