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Keeper of the Lost Cities
By Shannon Messenger

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Setting: Keeper of the Lost Cities mainly takes place in the Lost Cities, The place where Sophie spends the most time is probably the Foxfire Academy, and her home Havenfield. (Shown above in the picture) It takes place in the early 2010s.

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Link to voice over: https://watch.screencastify.com/v/V14B32a2hDbl8dvPl6tc

In the exposition, Sophie is living in San Francisco, she is a 12 year-old senior. On a field trip to the local museum, she runs into Fitz, an elf, who tells her that she is also an elf, and that they've been looking for her for 12 years. Sophie doesn't believe him and thinks that he's crazy, so Fitz "blinks" which makes him invisible for a second and then light leaps her to Eternalia. The next day, Fitz brings her to his house where they have lunch with three of the counselors. (Counselors are the elven leaders, there's 12 of them) Sophie is being tested to make see if she qualifies for Foxfire, the elves most prestigious academy. She passes and is told that she can't go back to her human family so she is moved to live with Grady and Edaline, a couple who lost their only daughter in an accidental fire.(though Grady believes that his daughter was murdered) Sophie starts school and quickly becomes friends with Dex, Edaline and Grady's nephew, Marella, and Jensi. Later on she becomes friends with Biana, Fitz's brother, Keefe, Fitz's best friend, and Fitz.
In the rising action, Sophie is getting notes from a mysterious rebellion group, The Black Swan, Sophie quickly becomes aware that The Black Swan, who were responsible for her living with humans since birth, had implanted memories into her brain. Sophie was ordered to record any dreams and memories that she remembered into a journal and to tell Alden, Fitz's dad, if she found anything. A while later, Sophie found out that there were fires burning all over the forbidden cities (the lands of the humans) all burning bright yellow and all started on the same day across the globe. The council ruled out elven involvement and ruled it by being set by a human arsonist. Sophie believes that it is a fire called Everblaze, that can only be set by elves, however the only pyrokinetic capable of surviving setting Everblaze is Fintan, one of the original three Councillors. Sophie believed it was him, so she broke the law and went to bottle up the fire as evidence. Not only had she broken the law, she had broken a promise she had made with Alden earlier that day. The Council called for a tribunal in the next few days. The next day when she went to school, she ended up leaving early and running down to the caves at her home, when she got there, people in black cloaks were waiting for her with a sedative, Dex who had been told by Fitz that he should go check on her came down to the caves, both her and Dex were kidnapped by the cloaked elves. The cloaked men took off their registry pendants, given by the council to elves to monitor their movements, staged a tsunami and threw in the registry. The investigation didn't find any bodies, but they found their registry pendants and everyone believed they were dead. A funeral was held for them.
In the climax, they were being held in the basement of a building in the forbidden cities, Sophie was going in and out of consciousness because of the sedatives they were giving her. When she was "awake" she tried reaching out to Fitz through her telepathy, a great feat making her one of the strongest telepaths in the world, however Fitz thought it was his imagination since Sophie and Dex were "dead". However, a mysterious elf from the Black Swan came and rescued her and Dex. The mysterious elf quickly abandoned them in the forbidden cities with only three words on a note to guide them home. Sophie quickly figured out the clue and went to the bridge which should help them get away.
In the falling action, the kidnappers find them at the bridge and hit Dex with a melder gun, Sophie gets angry and another special talent awakens, the "inflictor" talent and she quickly knocks the kidnappers out and leaps Dex to the Four Seasons Tree in the Lost Cities. However, Sophie lost too much of herself in the leap and started to "fade away". She called out to Fitz again telepathically, and told him the description of where she was. Fitz told Biana and Keefe about it and Keefe identified that the place "Sophie" had described was the Four Seasons Tree and convinced him to go check the Four Seasons Tree just in case they were there. When they arrived Sophie had nearly faded away completely and they leaped Dex back to Everglen, Fitz and Biana's home. Elwin came and poured a sedative down Sophie's throat and they leaped her back to Everglen, to give her further treatment. Sophie was unconscious for 2 weeks before she woke up.
In the conclusion, Sophie had to face the tribunal because of the laws she had broken, however the sentences would go up in her record as "already served" since the Councillors had failed to keep her safe and they thought it would be inappropriate for them to further punish her. Since she was gone for 3 1/2 weeks, she had missed the finals and so her teachers found stuff that she had done that would make it so she'd get 100% in the finals. All of them except one, who said she couldn't find any way for her to pass Sophie since Sophie wasn't doing good in her class. Because of this, people thought she was going to be kicked out of Foxfire, however Alden brought up that the rules only said she had to qualify for 8 subjects, not that she had to pass 8 subjects and since Sophie had manifested as an inflictor, it would be reasonable to replace that subject, that she obviously didn't have any future career prospects with, with a subject of studying inflicting. The council assigned Sophie a goblin bodyguard and Sophie went back to living with her adoptive parents, Grady and Edaline.

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Sophie Foster is the main character of this book, she is the only elf in the world that has brown eyes. She is brave, a little reckless, and she fights for what she believes is right. She is one of the strongest elves in the world even though she is only 13 years old. Most elves only have one special ability but Sophie has multiple. The abilities she has in the first book is telepath, inflicting, and polyglot. (She'll develop at least 2 more in the books after that though.) Sophie is also a loyal friend.

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Conflict: Person vs. Self-
When Sophie was preparing for the midterms, she was extremely worried about one of her subjects. She had always done bad in that subject and Sophie really wanted to know what the midterm test was going to be about. So during on of her class time with that teacher, Sophie used her telepathy skill and stole the midterm from her teacher's head. However, when she got home and was trying to sleep she felt extremely guilty about it. So she confessed to Alden what she had done, and the next day she was in a conference with Alden, her telepathy mentor, and the school principle over what she had done. Earlier that year, Sophie had won a pardon which would make it so she wouldn't have to receive punishment for one bad thing she did. Sophie felt really upset and guilty for letting the people around her down, so she took the detention instead of using the pardon.

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Sophie had been getting notes and packages from the Black Swan for a while. She had learned that there was a gigantic firestorm in the forbidden cities. All the fires were burning yellow and were all set on the same day. The Council rules it a human arsonist, however rumors were going around saying that it could've been Everblaze, a fire only elves who are pyrokinetic can cause, and only one elf can do it without killing themselves. That elf, Fintan, is one of the three original Councilors and is the friend of the Council so they didn't believe it. However, Sophie received an illegal spyball, along with three human names. Sophie quickly knew it was her human family and they were trapped in an evacuation center. The Council had forbidden any elf from going near the fires to stop rumors from spreading. Sophie ignored this rule and went to get evidence that it wasn't a human arsonist and that the fire was indeed Everblaze.

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Sophie suffers from a major allergic reaction and Dex picks her up and runs her to the school physician, Elwin. However, before he got there, Fitz, (who Dex didn't like either way) took Sophie saying that Dex would never make it The Healing Center in time.

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Page 94, "Adjust. Like she was a problem they'd have to get used to. And why didn't they call it Elf Lessons for Dummies, while they were at it?" This is a theme because not only will Sophie, but everyone else in the Lost Cities will have to adjust to a new normal. For Sophie it is living with elves, being able to light leap and lots of other things she deems impossible. For the elves, it is not having a peaceful world like they had before.

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Significance of the title, "Keeper of the Lost Cities"

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Significance of the title, "Keeper of the Lost Cities"

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I believe that the significance of the title is that Sophie, her friends, and the Black Swan are going to be the "Keepers of the Lost Cities" protecting them from the other rebel group who isn't good like the Black Swan.

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This story takes place a millennia after the treaty between the humans and the elves broke apart. After the treaty broke apart, the elves disappeared and the stories told by the humans evolved into the myths we know today. The treaty broke apart because the elves found out that the humans were plotting war against the elves so they could rule the world. The ancient elven councilors, fearing war, decided that it would be best for the elves to 'disappear'. After that a lot of laws were made, some of them turned out to be not so good, and now are causing troubles. One of the main troubles in the story is humans and how to deal with them.

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The elves in "Keeper of the Lost Cities" resemble the elves in "The Lord of the Rings". In the second book that I am currently reading, there's a part where it even mentions the author and the book. It said that at some point in his life, Tolkien had encountered an elf from "Keeper of the Lost Cities" who had inspired the book, "The Lord of the Rings".

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I rate this book and the series 5 out of 5 stars. I absolutely love the series and the characters and I am sad that there are only 2 more books left for the author to write tell the series is done.