The Prophet of Yonwood

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While visiting the small town of Yonwood, North Carolina, eleven-year-old Nickie makes some decisions about how to identify both good and evil when she witnesses the townspeople's reactions to the apocalyptic visions of one of their neighbors.

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The Prophet of Yonwood submitted by halofriendly on July 23, 2011, 5:53pm As much as I yearned to love these books and add them to my bookshelves at home, I just couldn’t. While the storyline was intriguing enough and the characters likeable (especially Lina), what bothered me the most was the lack of a climax in all three of the stories. And when the story line began driving toward a climax, the author chose instead to veer away from it and let our imaginations do the work (which I normally wouldn't be opposed to, but there were a number of chances to make the plot exciting which the author skipped over).

All in all, I wanted this story to have more punch than it ever did. I found myself skimming through The Prophet of Yonwood pages at a time in the hope that I’d come across a more interesting passage. And although I agree with the author when it comes to the dangers of religious intolerance and fanaticism, I felt dragged down by the constant harping on how these two things make the world bad. The not-so-underlying message throughout The Prophet of Yonwood that the Disaster that led to Ember being built underground was caused by religious wars was its own character and I wish she hadn’t been so heavy-handed with it.

Okay, what did I like?
The storyline (Honestly! Aside from my aforementioned disappointments with it, the story arc was fantastic)….I love dystopic literature and this one sucked me in: underground city, adventure, demolished cities above ground, people living off the land and creating civilization again, etc.

The characters…Lina, a strong female who really carried the story, is 12 years old, a newly christened Messenger in Ember, and incredibly devoted to her baby sister, Poppy. Doon, a 12 year old radical who stands up to authority and joins with Lina to save his city, is incredibly inspiring, even as he struggles with what is right and what is wrong.

not so good submitted by ferdoble on August 2, 2011, 4:53pm let me just go ahead and bomb this book. IT WAS AWFUL. Like the others it made me want to shout USE YOUR GROWNUP VOICE, its not a huge secret kits don't like to be talked down to, no one does.

Unlike the first book in this series that made up for that fatal flaw with a great story, this one had exactly nothing going for it. I was able to listen through Steven Hawking book and I couldn't even understand it, but this was just garbage, it made me angry it was so bad.

Prophet of Yonwood submitted by unknown on July 12, 2012, 6:13pm i like this book and i think you will too if you aren't too emotional about dogs. the main character is nickie.






SPOILERS!

there was this really sad part about otis and the other dogs. i was really happy when i found out that they get their dogs back in the end.

Okay submitted by Motomori on August 1, 2012, 3:27pm To me, it felt like it had NOTHING to do with the last two books. All of a sudden they start to talk about this girl named Nickie and only Lina is the original person from the book!!

The Prophet of Yonwood submitted by yaldah on August 27, 2013, 9:15am It's true that, like a couple people have said in there reviews, the Books of Ember aren't written all that well. But it's not written *terribly* badly, and I thought the storyline to this book (and all of them!) was pretty good, all in all. I was really confused when I first started reading it - I was thinking, "But this is not a third book in the series! It's a totally different story, with totally different characters, and a totally different world! (Okay, not totally different, but quite different.) I almost stopped reading it, but I eventually kept on reading it, and was I glad! By the time I was halfway through the book, I was really enjoying the book in it's own right, and when I got to the end, I finally saw what it had to do with the other books in the series. It is a prequel to the first two Books of Ember, but it really should be read after the first two, although I'm sure I would still have liked it even had I not read the other two books.

... submitted by jmock on August 27, 2013, 12:44pm My little sister couldn't even get through this thing because it was so boring. I skipped this book, went straight to the next one, and didn't miss a thing

Amazing submitted by peterflorence on June 13, 2015, 1:54pm This book is a must read if you like action and fantasy.

story time! submitted by rainhong on July 5, 2018, 7:06pm Kinda talks about something different, but then yall will understand at the end!

Eh... submitted by squirrellynut on June 9, 2019, 7:57am I'm agreeing with a lot of people that the Books of Ember had a lot of potential, but most of it wasted. I liked that The Prophet of Yonwood was a prequel, but this book might have been a bit more helpful and appreciated if the author had published it after The City of Ember, The People of Sparks, and The Diamond of Darkhold, and called the City of Ember series a trilogy, and had this as like a standalone, like the Warriors super editions.