The Awakening of Roku by Randy RibayMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Randy Robay concludes his first duology in Chronicles of the Avatar with Roku leaving his adolescence behind and truly becoming a man of the world. Tracing a mysterious illness to its source, learning the ways of waterbending and witnessing for himself that the Water Tribes have much more distinct customs than we ever thought (Ribay shouts out some good research material he made use of while learning about real Inuit peoples), but also, this is where we start to really see the corruption of Fire Lord Sozin and his eventual fall to the dark side, which gives the very end of this book a bittersweet note. My guess, though? Based on the considerable presence of Avatar Kuruk in this book, I wouldn’t be surprised if Ribay was setting up to finally write his duology next.
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