Review: The Lost Years - The Guardians #4
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 29, 2013
I received a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.We're four books into a series now, so while as always I'm going to give as spoiler-free of a review of this current book, all bets are off for anything from the previous ones. So if you're not caught up.. Go away! Turn back! Save yourself before it's too late! (In all honesty I don't know if I will spill anything, but this way I'm covered)Somehow this is the shortest book in the series by almost half, and it took me longer than any of them to read! I think I was just savoring it because it was a treasure trove of information about the entire rest of the series.From the excerpt I expected for Uri and Sophie to also have a big chunk of the story focused on them but The Lost Years is primarily Dina's (and Raimie too) story. Never fear though! What we don't get in quantity, we get in quality as some doozies get tossed out for us in regards to Sophie and Uri(What's with Seraphina??). Poor Haim reminds me of Ving Rhames, always the muscle in the background but never getting the spotlight. Dina gets the bulk of this book though with a heartbreaking tale of all the wrong decisions for all the right reasons."I'm hungry," he moaned. "I know, baby, I know."We also get some more peeks of the sketchy workings of the Council and I can't help but wonder how much of a hand they had in what happened at Rampart. We're treated to  a wonderful look at the human side of Michael (If only he and Gabe shared something like this back in book one!).I think one of the year 1 classes should be ethics though, because there are a lot of liar liars with their pants on fire up in The Guardians! See if you can spot the ginormous whopper! No, not that one. The other one!The best thing about this book is that it put the final pieces into a lot of puzzles from the previous three books that really help put things into perspective. We get to catch up with everyone and  how they got to where they are from book three, before we take off into book five!