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The Power of Five #3
Nightrise
The third heart-pounding book in #1 NYT bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's spellbinding The Gatekeepers series
A gate has been opened. The Old Ones have been released. And now the third and fourth of The Five -- twins with a mysterious psychic bond -- are joining the fight.
A gate has been opened. The Old Ones have been released. And now the third and fourth of The Five -- twins with a mysterious psychic bond -- are joining the fight.
368 pages, Hardcover
First published May 1, 2007
About the author
Anthony Horowitz
430 books17.6k followersAnthony Horowitz, OBE is ranked alongside Enid Blyton and Mark A. Cooper as "The most original and best spy-kids authors of the century." (New York Times). Anthony has been writing since the age of eight, and professionally since the age of twenty. In addition to the highly successful Alex Rider books, he is also the writer and creator of award winning detective series Foyle’s War, and more recently event drama Collision, among his other television works he has written episodes for Poirot, Murder in Mind, Midsomer Murders and Murder Most Horrid. Anthony became patron to East Anglia Children’s Hospices in 2009.
On 19 January 2011, the estate of Arthur Conan Doyle announced that Horowitz was to be the writer of a new Sherlock Holmes novel, the first such effort to receive an official endorsement from them and to be entitled the House of Silk.
http://us.macmillan.com/author/anthon...
On 19 January 2011, the estate of Arthur Conan Doyle announced that Horowitz was to be the writer of a new Sherlock Holmes novel, the first such effort to receive an official endorsement from them and to be entitled the House of Silk.
http://us.macmillan.com/author/anthon...
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June 9, 2018
Nightrise (The Gatekeepers, Also known as: The Power of Five; O Poder dos Guardiães [Portuguese]; Le Pouvoir des Cinq [French]; Die fünf Tore [German]; Los cinco guardianes [Spanish]; I 5 guardiani [Italian]; Moč Petih [Slovenian] #3), Anthony Horowitz
Nightrise is the third book in The Power of Five series, written by Anthony Horowitz. It was published and released in the UK on 2 April 2007 by Walker Books Ltd. It is preceded by Evil Star, released in 2006, and followed by Necropolis, which was released on 30 October 2008. The title refers to a fictional organisation represented in the book. And also it refers to the Old Ones' presence on Earth, and their spreading darkness.
عنوانها: طلوع تاریکی ؛ مجموعه قدرت پنج نگهبان - کتاب سوم؛ طلوع شب: چه کسی زنده خواهد ماند تا فردا را ببیند؛ نویسنده: آنتونی هوروویتس؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش: دوازدهم ماه اکتبر سال 2014 میلادی
عنوان: طلوع تاریکی ؛ مجموعه قدرت پنج نگهبان - کتاب سوم؛ نویسنده: آنتونی هوروویتس؛ مترجم: گیتا گرکانی؛ تهران، تندیس، 1390، در 359 ص، شابک: 9786001820410؛ موضوع: داستانهای نوجوانان از نویسندگان انگلیسی قرن 21 م
عنوان: طلوع شب: چه کسی زنده خواهد ماند تا فردا را ببیند؛ نویسنده: آنتونی هوروویتس؛ مترجم: ندا شادنظر؛ تهران، نشر قطره، 1392، در 413 ص، شابک: 9786001191473؛
جیمی و اسکات تایلر، دوقلوهای چهارده ساله، نمیدانند که هستند، یا از کجا آمده اند. اما همیشه میدانسته اند توان خارق العاده ای دارند. وقتی شرکت خبیث «طلوع تاریکی» اسکات را میدزدد، و جیمی را به قتل متهم میکند، آنها متوجه میشوند اگر میخواهند زنده بمانند باید از نیروهایشان استفاده کنند. اما جیمی هزار سال به عقب برگردانده میشود، با همه ی قدرت هولناک پیشینیان رودررو قرار میگیرد. در اینجا جیمی میفهمد او یکی از پنج نگهبانی است که تنها نیروی آنها میتواند در برابر هرج و مرج ابدی ایستادگی کند. عاقبت پنج نگهبان باید با نیروهای اهریمنی مبارزه کنند. و باید برنده شوند. ا. شربیانی
Nightrise is the third book in The Power of Five series, written by Anthony Horowitz. It was published and released in the UK on 2 April 2007 by Walker Books Ltd. It is preceded by Evil Star, released in 2006, and followed by Necropolis, which was released on 30 October 2008. The title refers to a fictional organisation represented in the book. And also it refers to the Old Ones' presence on Earth, and their spreading darkness.
عنوانها: طلوع تاریکی ؛ مجموعه قدرت پنج نگهبان - کتاب سوم؛ طلوع شب: چه کسی زنده خواهد ماند تا فردا را ببیند؛ نویسنده: آنتونی هوروویتس؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش: دوازدهم ماه اکتبر سال 2014 میلادی
عنوان: طلوع تاریکی ؛ مجموعه قدرت پنج نگهبان - کتاب سوم؛ نویسنده: آنتونی هوروویتس؛ مترجم: گیتا گرکانی؛ تهران، تندیس، 1390، در 359 ص، شابک: 9786001820410؛ موضوع: داستانهای نوجوانان از نویسندگان انگلیسی قرن 21 م
عنوان: طلوع شب: چه کسی زنده خواهد ماند تا فردا را ببیند؛ نویسنده: آنتونی هوروویتس؛ مترجم: ندا شادنظر؛ تهران، نشر قطره، 1392، در 413 ص، شابک: 9786001191473؛
جیمی و اسکات تایلر، دوقلوهای چهارده ساله، نمیدانند که هستند، یا از کجا آمده اند. اما همیشه میدانسته اند توان خارق العاده ای دارند. وقتی شرکت خبیث «طلوع تاریکی» اسکات را میدزدد، و جیمی را به قتل متهم میکند، آنها متوجه میشوند اگر میخواهند زنده بمانند باید از نیروهایشان استفاده کنند. اما جیمی هزار سال به عقب برگردانده میشود، با همه ی قدرت هولناک پیشینیان رودررو قرار میگیرد. در اینجا جیمی میفهمد او یکی از پنج نگهبانی است که تنها نیروی آنها میتواند در برابر هرج و مرج ابدی ایستادگی کند. عاقبت پنج نگهبان باید با نیروهای اهریمنی مبارزه کنند. و باید برنده شوند. ا. شربیانی
March 23, 2017
The third in Horowitz's Power of Five series sees the action move to Nevada where Scott and Jamie Tyler perform a mind-reading act to bored casino audiences. Only their act is real and one night they are ambushed by two mysterious men who kidnap Scott and frame Jamie for murder. Jamie escapes with the help of Alicia McGuire, a former aide to Presidential nominee Senator John Trelawney who has been searching for her son, Danny. Together they discover that children all over the country have been disappearing - children with strange abilities - and all roads lead back to the sinister Nightrise Corporation. To find Scott, Jamie must go undercover into a youth detention centre that's run by Nightrise. Doing so will place Jamie in terrible danger, danger that that will send him back 10,000 and put him in the middle of the first fight between the Gatekeepers and the Old Ones.
This is a terrifically paced read, full of thrills, fights and perilous situations. Horowitz does well to convey Jamie's confusion at what is happening to him and his fear of his extraordinary ability and Jamie grows from being in need of his brother's protection to becoming his brother's protector. There's a strong political backdrop to events, with Trelawney's Presidential campaign likely to draw a wry smile from adults. Horowitz also throws in some scenes from the side of the Old Ones, helping to flesh out what is happening among their supporters.
There is very much a sense of story strands coming together in this novel and Horowitz ends his tale with a teaser that will leave readers desperate to read the next in the series. This is a deeply enjoyable series with a strong fantasy element and I look forward to finding out what happens next.
This is a terrifically paced read, full of thrills, fights and perilous situations. Horowitz does well to convey Jamie's confusion at what is happening to him and his fear of his extraordinary ability and Jamie grows from being in need of his brother's protection to becoming his brother's protector. There's a strong political backdrop to events, with Trelawney's Presidential campaign likely to draw a wry smile from adults. Horowitz also throws in some scenes from the side of the Old Ones, helping to flesh out what is happening among their supporters.
There is very much a sense of story strands coming together in this novel and Horowitz ends his tale with a teaser that will leave readers desperate to read the next in the series. This is a deeply enjoyable series with a strong fantasy element and I look forward to finding out what happens next.
December 22, 2017
This book took me a little longer to read than planned. I blame this entirely on me struggling to get properly in to the story.
Firstly, this book was the dullest of the series so far. I enjoyed "Ravens Gate" It had a sense of mystery to it, and I thought the story was intriguing. This however, had zero charm to it, the plot was slow and I could already anticipate exactly what was going to happen.
The character development is tolerable, but not in the sense of actually getting excited by the entrance of new characters.
The ending was poor and rather anticlimactic and I was seriously expecting something more. There are two more books left in this series, but, to be honest, this series is becoming quite tiring.
Firstly, this book was the dullest of the series so far. I enjoyed "Ravens Gate" It had a sense of mystery to it, and I thought the story was intriguing. This however, had zero charm to it, the plot was slow and I could already anticipate exactly what was going to happen.
The character development is tolerable, but not in the sense of actually getting excited by the entrance of new characters.
The ending was poor and rather anticlimactic and I was seriously expecting something more. There are two more books left in this series, but, to be honest, this series is becoming quite tiring.
November 19, 2022
Overall Rating : B
Good but I'm hoping for greater in the next book.
Good but I'm hoping for greater in the next book.
May 30, 2010
I'm a stickler for series. I love Darren Shan and the like and when I first opened Raven's Gate I was immediately drawn in, it was a good book. Evil Star was alright and with this: book three in the Gatekeepers saga dubbed Nightrise I wasn't too immersed. It's a young adult's fiction novel of two orphans abandoned in a tunnel near a Washoe native American reservation. Scott, the apparent protector of the two, and Jamie Tyler, the doubting protagonist, performing in a rundown play house in Reno, Nevada called... the Reno Playhouse. Why are they in this book, could they be two of the five? Well, yes. As members of the five it is there sworn duty to return the world to order when the Old Ones, the first ever evil, returned. The admittance by the main character of feeling inferior to his twin brother despite not knowing who was born first can only lead one to assume that this is going to be a coming of age novel meant to inspire our youth to "come into their own".
It starts fairly slow with the characters; Jamie and Scott have the uncanny ability of reading each others thoughts. An assumed parlor trick they pull as part of their "Circus of the Mind" act. When two men arrive and abduct, or at least try to abduct, the boys from the play house. They succeed in taking Scott but Jamie is rescued by an Alicia McGuire. The subsequent storyline revolves around Jamie's quest to not only return to the side of his brother but rescue Daniel the abducted son of Alicia. Throughout the story it's revealed that Nightrise the multibillion dollar corporation is behind the abductions as they are working towards the rebirth of the old ones.
Jamie is shot,you know how and why, and in his trauma induced stupor he is transported 10000 years into the past to take the place of his deceased ancestor in the first battle between the five and the old ones and it is truly an oasis of action to break up the tedium.
The climax comes when after Jamie's return to the present he is rejoined with his brother who has been severely mentally altered in his time under Nightrise supervision. Scott has been tasked with assassinating the president to be and that is the setting of the brother's reunion. Jamie saves the day and the good guys win another battle...
It's a "to be continued" sort of affair and if you didn't pay attention to the hero's plight you might not notice how he ends up being his brother's keeper. You wouldn't notice how completely incapacitated Scott was and how Jamie went threw all the trials of: getting shot, participating in a battle to decide the world's fate, scrounging for his own survival as well as his brother's. And how all these have made him along with his powers that much stronger. I like subtlety, a proud book is an easy book, but the lack of thrilling pace, and the detached writing really hurt this book. It was saddening and I really hoped it would bring back memories of Raven's Gate but sadly it came up just short.
It starts fairly slow with the characters; Jamie and Scott have the uncanny ability of reading each others thoughts. An assumed parlor trick they pull as part of their "Circus of the Mind" act. When two men arrive and abduct, or at least try to abduct, the boys from the play house. They succeed in taking Scott but Jamie is rescued by an Alicia McGuire. The subsequent storyline revolves around Jamie's quest to not only return to the side of his brother but rescue Daniel the abducted son of Alicia. Throughout the story it's revealed that Nightrise the multibillion dollar corporation is behind the abductions as they are working towards the rebirth of the old ones.
Jamie is shot,you know how and why, and in his trauma induced stupor he is transported 10000 years into the past to take the place of his deceased ancestor in the first battle between the five and the old ones and it is truly an oasis of action to break up the tedium.
The climax comes when after Jamie's return to the present he is rejoined with his brother who has been severely mentally altered in his time under Nightrise supervision. Scott has been tasked with assassinating the president to be and that is the setting of the brother's reunion. Jamie saves the day and the good guys win another battle...
It's a "to be continued" sort of affair and if you didn't pay attention to the hero's plight you might not notice how he ends up being his brother's keeper. You wouldn't notice how completely incapacitated Scott was and how Jamie went threw all the trials of: getting shot, participating in a battle to decide the world's fate, scrounging for his own survival as well as his brother's. And how all these have made him along with his powers that much stronger. I like subtlety, a proud book is an easy book, but the lack of thrilling pace, and the detached writing really hurt this book. It was saddening and I really hoped it would bring back memories of Raven's Gate but sadly it came up just short.
August 13, 2017
4.5
loved it.
loved it.
December 6, 2022
This was a great addition to this series I liked diving deeper into the characters as well as the villains of the story. The characters were interesting I really liked Jamie I liked the story starting on a different character than Matt he starts as someone who relies on his brother for everything and end up being so much more by the end. The plot is very interesting it starts out with a pair of twins who have to perform in side show some things go wrong one is kidnapped while the other is framed for murder things just go from bad to worse from there now Jamie is with a woman looking for her son while he is trying to find his brother Scott so he finds the woman's son things go even worse and he find himself in the past how the past gatekeepers saved the day is shown looking forward to where the story goes from here.
November 13, 2012
Reviewed by Sally Kruger, aka "Readingjunky" for TeensReadToo.com
Anthony Horowitz's THE GATEKEEPERS series continues with NIGHTRISE. The Old Ones are still a threat to the safety of the world, and the five young gatekeepers are the only ones equipped to help.
Previously, Matt and Pedro were in Peru attempting to close the second gate. Their attempt failed and Matt was seriously injured. The adventure continues in a new location - Reno, Nevada. A small, rundown theater is hosting a performance called The Circus of the Mind. The featured act involves twins named Jamie and Scott. They amaze the audience by reading each others' minds. No one seems to know the secret of the trick. Actually, the secret is, there is no secret. They really do read minds and not just each others'.
Readers will soon guess that Jamie and Scott are the next two of the special "five." The problem is how will they learn about their responsibilities and how will they find out about the others. When the evil corporation, Nightrise, becomes involved, it is clear that the Old Ones' power still reaches around the world.
When Scott is kidnapped by Nightrise and taken to an isolated juvenile detention facility in the desert, Jamie begins his rescue attempt with the help of Alicia McGuire. She wants inside the prison as much as Jamie because she suspects her son has been kidnapped, as well. Nightrise seems to be making it a habit to kidnap teens with various "special" abilities. Could they be looking for the five young gatekeepers?
Horowitz thrills readers with kidnapping, adventures in the present day world, a world 10,000 years in the past, and the dream world Matt became familiar with in the first books. There are shape-changers, fire-riders, and mutilated humans to be battled. Some might find the story filled with twists and turns a bit confusing, but fans of the earlier books will be pleased with the surprises Horowitz has hidden in this new episode. The "to be continued..." ending promises even more surprises to come.
Anthony Horowitz's THE GATEKEEPERS series continues with NIGHTRISE. The Old Ones are still a threat to the safety of the world, and the five young gatekeepers are the only ones equipped to help.
Previously, Matt and Pedro were in Peru attempting to close the second gate. Their attempt failed and Matt was seriously injured. The adventure continues in a new location - Reno, Nevada. A small, rundown theater is hosting a performance called The Circus of the Mind. The featured act involves twins named Jamie and Scott. They amaze the audience by reading each others' minds. No one seems to know the secret of the trick. Actually, the secret is, there is no secret. They really do read minds and not just each others'.
Readers will soon guess that Jamie and Scott are the next two of the special "five." The problem is how will they learn about their responsibilities and how will they find out about the others. When the evil corporation, Nightrise, becomes involved, it is clear that the Old Ones' power still reaches around the world.
When Scott is kidnapped by Nightrise and taken to an isolated juvenile detention facility in the desert, Jamie begins his rescue attempt with the help of Alicia McGuire. She wants inside the prison as much as Jamie because she suspects her son has been kidnapped, as well. Nightrise seems to be making it a habit to kidnap teens with various "special" abilities. Could they be looking for the five young gatekeepers?
Horowitz thrills readers with kidnapping, adventures in the present day world, a world 10,000 years in the past, and the dream world Matt became familiar with in the first books. There are shape-changers, fire-riders, and mutilated humans to be battled. Some might find the story filled with twists and turns a bit confusing, but fans of the earlier books will be pleased with the surprises Horowitz has hidden in this new episode. The "to be continued..." ending promises even more surprises to come.
September 25, 2011
So, this is the third book of one of my favorite series, The Gatekeepers!. When I finished reading Evil Star, I was a bit dissapointed, not with the story, but with some mistakes I found there. I started to think that maybe this book had an extraordinary plot like the others, but maybe it would contain some errors that would make me start disliking it. But fortunately, i'm glad to say that it didn't. This was super amazing!!! I was starting to compare this with Necropolis which is the most incredible, fantastic, awesome, outstanding book in the series.
In this third part of The Gatekeepers, you meet a new element of the 5, or better yet 2 of the 5, they are brothers. The storyline was good, and in this volume you get to see how a war, from a thousand years ago between the gatekeepers and the Old Ones, was held.
Even though the stories in these books are always great for my taste, full of adventures, non stopping action, and suspense that keeps you on the edge of your seat , there were some things that weren't clear for me
5 stars because it's awesome!
In this third part of The Gatekeepers, you meet a new element of the 5, or better yet 2 of the 5, they are brothers. The storyline was good, and in this volume you get to see how a war, from a thousand years ago between the gatekeepers and the Old Ones, was held.
Even though the stories in these books are always great for my taste, full of adventures, non stopping action, and suspense that keeps you on the edge of your seat , there were some things that weren't clear for me
5 stars because it's awesome!
January 3, 2021
I have to be honest and admit that I didn't like this book as much as the previous 2 in the Gatekeepers series. The good news is that I know exactly why that is: I really disliked that huge ~fantasy battle against the Old Ones in the past!~ section. I very rarely care about ~huge battles~ like that, because it's usually crystal freakin' clear that the "good guys" will win, with minimal losses on their side, usually at the very last second just for ~suspense~.
Not to mention that the entire "random group of Native Americans comes together to save the main character, loyal to them til death" was a copy of the Incas plotline from the previous book. Indeed the twins were Native American, but we never get any answers about where they came from. We barely even got any scenes with both of them together (when the boys got separated in the beginning, the entire thing was also reminiscent of how Matt and Richard were separated in the beginning of Evil Star).
I will be reading the next book(s) in the series, but I was definitely underwhelmed by this installment.
Not to mention that the entire "random group of Native Americans comes together to save the main character, loyal to them til death" was a copy of the Incas plotline from the previous book. Indeed the twins were Native American, but we never get any answers about where they came from. We barely even got any scenes with both of them together (when the boys got separated in the beginning, the entire thing was also reminiscent of how Matt and Richard were separated in the beginning of Evil Star).
I will be reading the next book(s) in the series, but I was definitely underwhelmed by this installment.
June 11, 2017
i didn't think i would love the new characters as much as i did
May 23, 2017
so, the third book of "gatekeepers" , as i expect from each and every book Anthony Horowits writes, it was perfect, the story line, excitement and characters were all great, though being the first time i read from Jamie's perspective, it was a bit new and needed getting used to, but i liked it at the end.
and just at the moment about page 250 that i was going to give up having any updates from Mat and Pedro's life, once again i felt satisfied with Horowits's great story telling technique, i can now be sure to announce "He never lets you down"
درباره ی این کتاب همه چیز خیلی عالی و حرفه ای ساخته شده بود. اولش که شروع کردم یکم شک داشتم چون نویسنده نقش اول دوتا کتاب قبل و ول کرده بود و از زبون یه نقش اول دیگه داشت میگفت و من اول هر فصل منتظر بودم مت شروع کنه. مطمئن نبودم از این کتاب خوشم بیاد و بیشتر از اون که حقش بود تو خوندنش لفتش دادم. ولی با توضیحات عالی نویسنده که در عین حال که کنجکاوی آدم رو ارضا میکرد توضیح الکی نمیداد و به خواننده میدون میداد تا خودش فکر کنه. عالی بود مثل همه ی کارهای این نویسنده.
and just at the moment about page 250 that i was going to give up having any updates from Mat and Pedro's life, once again i felt satisfied with Horowits's great story telling technique, i can now be sure to announce "He never lets you down"
درباره ی این کتاب همه چیز خیلی عالی و حرفه ای ساخته شده بود. اولش که شروع کردم یکم شک داشتم چون نویسنده نقش اول دوتا کتاب قبل و ول کرده بود و از زبون یه نقش اول دیگه داشت میگفت و من اول هر فصل منتظر بودم مت شروع کنه. مطمئن نبودم از این کتاب خوشم بیاد و بیشتر از اون که حقش بود تو خوندنش لفتش دادم. ولی با توضیحات عالی نویسنده که در عین حال که کنجکاوی آدم رو ارضا میکرد توضیح الکی نمیداد و به خواننده میدون میداد تا خودش فکر کنه. عالی بود مثل همه ی کارهای این نویسنده.
February 21, 2021
Scott and Jamie are 14 year old telepathic twins. They work at a mind reading show owned by their guardian. 2 men pay the twin’s guardian to take them. They capture Scott but Jamie manages to escape. Jamie ends up wanted by the police. He has to rescue Scott whilst also learning they are a part of something much bigger than he could imagine.
This is my favourite book of the series so far. I love the characters, Jamie in particular, and the plot. It’s exciting and we find out more details about the past and how the final fight against the old ones might go down. The story was really well thought out. A lot happened and the ending was really cool. Everything is starting to come together and build up for the last book. I’m looking forward to it. I don’t have anything negative to say about this book.
This is my favourite book of the series so far. I love the characters, Jamie in particular, and the plot. It’s exciting and we find out more details about the past and how the final fight against the old ones might go down. The story was really well thought out. A lot happened and the ending was really cool. Everything is starting to come together and build up for the last book. I’m looking forward to it. I don’t have anything negative to say about this book.
December 28, 2023
Okay, firstly, this is a GOOD book. So any criticism that I make should not be misinterpreted otherwise. As compared to the first 2 parts, the pace lagged alot. There were way too many side quests and side stories that the flow seemed slightly jumbled up. The lack of Matt (kinda) seemed slightly vague since his character arc was going uphill and he had become an extremely likeable character.
In any case, time for Book 4!
In any case, time for Book 4!
June 1, 2018
Nightrise is book 3 in the series.
This book took me a while to get into. But it got better after Jamie ends up 10,000 years back.
This book took me a while to get into. But it got better after Jamie ends up 10,000 years back.
July 25, 2020
I thought this was a good story. To be fair, I hadn't read the previous books. It was well-written and I liked Jamie but I would recommend reading the others first.
January 21, 2021
Glad I didn't stop listening! Jamie came into the story and things started to get more interesting and exciting. I wanted to see the battle scenes on film. (audiobook)
January 7, 2008
I've always enjoyed Anthony Horowitz's books, and this is no exception.
The power of five series I find to be, in my opinion, far greater than the Alex Rider series.
The 1st power of five books, Raven's Gate and Evil Star were brilliant, and this one is no exception.
Nightrise I found, starts off fairly slow, as it's the third installment I expected there to be more use of the five's 'powers', as they are no longer a mystery to the reader, but like before, the powers are rarely used.
However, the story was revived when the main character, Jamie, is transported back in time. Horowitz presented a fantastic battle scene, with just the sort of detail of the 'Old Ones' as I'd hoped for. This, for me, was truly epic, and well worth reading!
I enjoyed reading about the character Jamie, but I feel he is slightly shadowed since the 1st two books are centered around the other character, Matt. I felt a longing throughout the book to know what was happening in Peru with Matt and Pedro, now that the second gate is over and the Old Ones have escaped.
I am looking forward to the forth book, which I believe shall be called 'Necropolis: City Of The Dead' and mainly about the female character Scar.
Hopefully, this time Horowitz will update the reader on what is happening with Matt, Pedro, and now, Jamie and Scott, as well as including lots about what the Old Ones are doing now that they are loose within our modern world.
Certainly a series to read, and the next books are certainly ones to look out for.
The power of five series I find to be, in my opinion, far greater than the Alex Rider series.
The 1st power of five books, Raven's Gate and Evil Star were brilliant, and this one is no exception.
Nightrise I found, starts off fairly slow, as it's the third installment I expected there to be more use of the five's 'powers', as they are no longer a mystery to the reader, but like before, the powers are rarely used.
However, the story was revived when the main character, Jamie, is transported back in time. Horowitz presented a fantastic battle scene, with just the sort of detail of the 'Old Ones' as I'd hoped for. This, for me, was truly epic, and well worth reading!
I enjoyed reading about the character Jamie, but I feel he is slightly shadowed since the 1st two books are centered around the other character, Matt. I felt a longing throughout the book to know what was happening in Peru with Matt and Pedro, now that the second gate is over and the Old Ones have escaped.
I am looking forward to the forth book, which I believe shall be called 'Necropolis: City Of The Dead' and mainly about the female character Scar.
Hopefully, this time Horowitz will update the reader on what is happening with Matt, Pedro, and now, Jamie and Scott, as well as including lots about what the Old Ones are doing now that they are loose within our modern world.
Certainly a series to read, and the next books are certainly ones to look out for.
February 23, 2010
I've enjoyed this whole series -- but then, I generally enjoy Anthony Horowitz's work. While the mythologies present may be familiar to students of world religions and apocalyptic literature (both religious and contemporary fiction), like Horowitz's other work, the characters are interesting and well-written. This would also be a fine series read for a family with middlers and early teens, but probably a little too scary for younger children (more horror elements than the Alex Rider series). Some thematic elements in this series: adoption, abandonment, torture, cruelty, bullying, evil, violence, meaning-making, trust, alienation, courage, compassion, wisdom, supernaturalism, supranaturalism, time-gates, child abuse, neglect, exploitation, and cooperation. The series runs on the polarity of good v. evil, but most of the characters have to slide along that polarity and find their place in it. As in Horowitz's other works, violence is required for evil to be controlled.
March 17, 2020
Yeah FINALLY! I finished my first book in 2018! It still amazes me how much I have forgotten about this series in 6 1/2 years. My memory really is horrible. I wasn't much into reading for the last three weeks, so I didn't enjoy the first 80% that much, but after that it got way better and exciting.
May 31, 2015
I liked this book but I kind of wish that he kept the same characters. Just kept the plot going with the two and then they find Jamie and Scott...somehow.
July 27, 2019
It is both better and worse than the previous two books. It is also so much darker than its predecessors, and occasionally I thought it was a YA or Juvenile book written for adults as some of themes were quite mature, but I think this is what I enjoyed most.
I have to give credit to Horowitz - I do like the perspective of other members of the Five becoming the focus of this story, and I do like the tone that was quite different from the previous two books. The sense of place was quite palpable, and I could literally ... hmmm ... virtually feel this hot dry air on my lips and in my lungs.
The characters were mostly very believable, and I did want to be with them to help them. The telepathic connection between the twins and their abilities to be in someone's minds as well as manipulate people is eerie, but it is also a burden to twins and causes anguish and pain. I really liked the scene when Jamie "jumped into the mind" of one of the villains, and how he felt the anger, hatred, and darkness that were temporarily his and how you can not undo it as it becomes the part of Jamie, albeit temporarily.
Some might say that the book is too dark for its target audience, and I would like to thank the author for the darker themes of violence, penitence, assassination. Teens need to be exposed to it in the way Horowitz did it - when you fight for the good and when there is hope ahead, and there is light in your heart, like Jamie, who was trying to rescue his brother from the oppression of the Nightrise, and still stayed in jail to help Daniel.
There are parts that I was on the fence about. The dreamscape scene was a little bit longer than I wanted it to be, but it was important for us to understand how the Five works. I did like this liminal space that members of the Five go to, and I liked the idea of cyclicity of time, and the doors that take you through space and or even time, a certain wormholes in this universe.
Overall, thoroughly enjoyed it, and I did like some occasional political commentary about corporations and some other cursory remarks that were left here and there, and oh, please do not tell me that teens and tweens should not be exposed to politics in book. They should; they most definitely should.
I have to give credit to Horowitz - I do like the perspective of other members of the Five becoming the focus of this story, and I do like the tone that was quite different from the previous two books. The sense of place was quite palpable, and I could literally ... hmmm ... virtually feel this hot dry air on my lips and in my lungs.
The characters were mostly very believable, and I did want to be with them to help them. The telepathic connection between the twins and their abilities to be in someone's minds as well as manipulate people is eerie, but it is also a burden to twins and causes anguish and pain. I really liked the scene when Jamie "jumped into the mind" of one of the villains, and how he felt the anger, hatred, and darkness that were temporarily his and how you can not undo it as it becomes the part of Jamie, albeit temporarily.
Some might say that the book is too dark for its target audience, and I would like to thank the author for the darker themes of violence, penitence, assassination. Teens need to be exposed to it in the way Horowitz did it - when you fight for the good and when there is hope ahead, and there is light in your heart, like Jamie, who was trying to rescue his brother from the oppression of the Nightrise, and still stayed in jail to help Daniel.
There are parts that I was on the fence about. The dreamscape scene was a little bit longer than I wanted it to be, but it was important for us to understand how the Five works. I did like this liminal space that members of the Five go to, and I liked the idea of cyclicity of time, and the doors that take you through space and or even time, a certain wormholes in this universe.
Overall, thoroughly enjoyed it, and I did like some occasional political commentary about corporations and some other cursory remarks that were left here and there, and oh, please do not tell me that teens and tweens should not be exposed to politics in book. They should; they most definitely should.
June 25, 2017
401 pages, it's a good book and the authors style is fantastic!
This book, I couldn't put down.
Although it's such a good book, it did get a bit confusing at times. I figured it out in the end. It was confusing that Jamie is Sapling, Scott's Flint, Pedro's Inti and so on. Jamie was dead, he comes back in another world where Sapling's dead. He replaces Sapling. This bit I understood.
Scott is imprisoned by Nightrise, and Jamie and Alicia go to look for him. Alicia will only help Jamie if he brings back Daniel, her son.
It is just a bit confusing in places. That is the only negativity that's coming from this review.
The book blew me away with the astonishing style. I got 401 pages of the author's style and I never got bored of it!
My favourite character was Jamie, who happens to be the main character.
My least favourite character would be Colton Banes. Banes is mean and kills his friends.
Highly, highly recommended.
This book, I couldn't put down.
Although it's such a good book, it did get a bit confusing at times. I figured it out in the end. It was confusing that Jamie is Sapling, Scott's Flint, Pedro's Inti and so on. Jamie was dead, he comes back in another world where Sapling's dead. He replaces Sapling. This bit I understood.
Scott is imprisoned by Nightrise, and Jamie and Alicia go to look for him. Alicia will only help Jamie if he brings back Daniel, her son.
It is just a bit confusing in places. That is the only negativity that's coming from this review.
The book blew me away with the astonishing style. I got 401 pages of the author's style and I never got bored of it!
My favourite character was Jamie, who happens to be the main character.
My least favourite character would be Colton Banes. Banes is mean and kills his friends.
Highly, highly recommended.
April 3, 2019
Another thrilling read in this series! This time, this instalment diverges from Matt and introduces new characters and a story that's filled with adventure, deception, and magic. I liked how this story progressed alongside Matt's and delved more into the lore of the Five. It took them in a direction I didn't expect and I found myself unable to stop reading!
Jamie and Scott have tragic backstories that made them some of my favourite characters. Though they're twins, they have wildly different personalities. Jamie's personality is sympathetic and easy to relate to. I was always rooting for him and wanting him to escape to find his brother.
I really enjoyed the plot and the twists and the glimpse into an alternate reality. There were a lot of creative ideas that led to yet another action-packed finale. I'm really looking forward to see how this series continues on!
Jamie and Scott have tragic backstories that made them some of my favourite characters. Though they're twins, they have wildly different personalities. Jamie's personality is sympathetic and easy to relate to. I was always rooting for him and wanting him to escape to find his brother.
I really enjoyed the plot and the twists and the glimpse into an alternate reality. There were a lot of creative ideas that led to yet another action-packed finale. I'm really looking forward to see how this series continues on!
October 31, 2014
Scott and Jamie are twins with a telepathic link. They perform in a private circus run by their foster parent, at least until he sells both of them to the Nightrise corporation. Although Scott gets caught, Jamie gets away, rescued by a Alicia, a woman who attended their last show. Alicia's son Danny had been kidnapped months before, and she offers to help Jamie any way she can. They trace Scott to a juvenile detention center owned by Nightrise, but when Jamie breaks in Scott is already gone. Jamie ends up on a journey stranger than he imagined, right back to the beginning of time, back to the first war with the Old Ones.
This is a revision of The Silver Citadel, and at 365 pages is well over twice as long the original's 150 page count. So what changed? Surprisingly, not too much. At the same time, it felt like everything was different. Everyone but Don White had a name change, many people had their looks changed, and in a few the nationality changed as well. The location swapped coasts: New York's dingy alleys became Reno's kaleidoscope casino town, the island detention center became a desert prison, New York's Silver Citadel became Hong Kong's The Nail, the few good policemen became a helpful tribe of Native Americans. The relationships between characters were mostly the same, the plot was almost exactly the same (though yet again, the heroin was taken out), and the ending leaves them in the same place.
So, differences. This is the tricky part. I think the main reason behind the location change was probably the fact that it deals with New York and a collapsing building, as well as having a few scenes in the actual World Trade Center. I still don't like it. The atmosphere of Reno is completely different than New York, and the book seems to go out of its way to avoid the city. Jamie spends most of his time in various smaller places around Reno; more of the original manuscript could have been kept if Horowitz had chosen to keep his setting in downtown Reno. Why does this matter? Atmosphere. The Silver Citadel created a great atmosphere of creepiness; in Nightrise I spent far more of the book wondering if Jamie was going to collapse from heat exhaustion.
The characters were subtly different as well. Jamie (Nightrise) never gave off the same vibe of dependence that Nicholas (Citadel) did, nor did I feel the same desperation for Scott (Nightrise) as I did for Jeremy (Citadel). Perhaps because Jamie actually went out and did a few things on his own, whereas Nicholas was afraid of virtually everything. Alicia is much nicer than Linda, and unlike Linda, has a personal connection to the case with the kidnapping of her own son. Bob's equivalent seems to be the presidential candidate, John Trelawny, who is way too nice to be believable as a politician. Oh, and Will, the last of the Five, who was briefly mentioned in Silver Citadel, was changed to a girl. Different does not have to mean bad, but in this case I don't think it added enough to the story to replace what it took away.
Susan Mortlake does a terrible job as a villain. Her name is an obvious reference to death, unlike the subtler (and funnier) Evelyn Carnitt. Susan's main bad points seem to be her ugliness and the fact that she doesn't mind ordering people to kill other people. She has nowhere near the role Evelyn did, and frankly, none of the power. Evelyn was an evil dark sorceress, possibly one of the lesser Old Ones. Susan was an old lady whose power lay in the fact that everyone was going to listen to her. And that took a lot of the fun out. Instead of running from undead horsemen and panther statues brought to life, Jamie is dodging one man with a gun and eventually the cops. Nightrise may have tension, but it lacks the distinctly supernatural element pervading The Silver Citadel.
So with the heroin gone, Jamie gets his ride to the past rather than a shot in the arm. This was the most expanded section of the revision, taking about 100 pages to cover what in the original took perhaps 10. So what does all the extra space do? Honestly, not much. Rather than meet Pedro, Jamie meets Scarletta and a few of her companions. The majority of the space is padding out their journey to reunite with the rest of the Five. It was very hard to care about any of the characters in the past outside the Five, since it's a given they'll all die in the battle or after; only the Five will show up again in the modern day, so why waste the pages to focus on anyone else? One thing Nightrise did do better was explain exactly what the Old Ones did in the past, like the details of their atrocities against humanity. Nicholas's ambush became Sapling's willing sacrifice (and did I mention I despise the way the names changed? It's hard to take the book seriously when suddenly everyone is calling Jamie Sapling); I thought it worked better as an ambush, although there were hints in The Silver Citadel that Martin knew it was going to happen. Nightrise had a much gorier depiction of the battle.
And for all that it was shorter, I think The Silver Citadel did a better job explaining the Old Ones and their powers versus the Five and their powers. Jamie's abilities don't work in the detention center---with no explanation beyond a lame "there must have been natural fluctuations." Jamie's powers seemed a lot more limited than Nicholas's.
Overall, this is worth a read if you've followed the series so far, but compared to the original book, I saw nothing worth adding the extra length. Conversely, I still thought many elements in the original book that had been removed worked a lot better than what replaced them. Neutral.
This is a revision of The Silver Citadel, and at 365 pages is well over twice as long the original's 150 page count. So what changed? Surprisingly, not too much. At the same time, it felt like everything was different. Everyone but Don White had a name change, many people had their looks changed, and in a few the nationality changed as well. The location swapped coasts: New York's dingy alleys became Reno's kaleidoscope casino town, the island detention center became a desert prison, New York's Silver Citadel became Hong Kong's The Nail, the few good policemen became a helpful tribe of Native Americans. The relationships between characters were mostly the same, the plot was almost exactly the same (though yet again, the heroin was taken out), and the ending leaves them in the same place.
So, differences. This is the tricky part. I think the main reason behind the location change was probably the fact that it deals with New York and a collapsing building, as well as having a few scenes in the actual World Trade Center. I still don't like it. The atmosphere of Reno is completely different than New York, and the book seems to go out of its way to avoid the city. Jamie spends most of his time in various smaller places around Reno; more of the original manuscript could have been kept if Horowitz had chosen to keep his setting in downtown Reno. Why does this matter? Atmosphere. The Silver Citadel created a great atmosphere of creepiness; in Nightrise I spent far more of the book wondering if Jamie was going to collapse from heat exhaustion.
The characters were subtly different as well. Jamie (Nightrise) never gave off the same vibe of dependence that Nicholas (Citadel) did, nor did I feel the same desperation for Scott (Nightrise) as I did for Jeremy (Citadel). Perhaps because Jamie actually went out and did a few things on his own, whereas Nicholas was afraid of virtually everything. Alicia is much nicer than Linda, and unlike Linda, has a personal connection to the case with the kidnapping of her own son. Bob's equivalent seems to be the presidential candidate, John Trelawny, who is way too nice to be believable as a politician. Oh, and Will, the last of the Five, who was briefly mentioned in Silver Citadel, was changed to a girl. Different does not have to mean bad, but in this case I don't think it added enough to the story to replace what it took away.
Susan Mortlake does a terrible job as a villain. Her name is an obvious reference to death, unlike the subtler (and funnier) Evelyn Carnitt. Susan's main bad points seem to be her ugliness and the fact that she doesn't mind ordering people to kill other people. She has nowhere near the role Evelyn did, and frankly, none of the power. Evelyn was an evil dark sorceress, possibly one of the lesser Old Ones. Susan was an old lady whose power lay in the fact that everyone was going to listen to her. And that took a lot of the fun out. Instead of running from undead horsemen and panther statues brought to life, Jamie is dodging one man with a gun and eventually the cops. Nightrise may have tension, but it lacks the distinctly supernatural element pervading The Silver Citadel.
So with the heroin gone, Jamie gets his ride to the past rather than a shot in the arm. This was the most expanded section of the revision, taking about 100 pages to cover what in the original took perhaps 10. So what does all the extra space do? Honestly, not much. Rather than meet Pedro, Jamie meets Scarletta and a few of her companions. The majority of the space is padding out their journey to reunite with the rest of the Five. It was very hard to care about any of the characters in the past outside the Five, since it's a given they'll all die in the battle or after; only the Five will show up again in the modern day, so why waste the pages to focus on anyone else? One thing Nightrise did do better was explain exactly what the Old Ones did in the past, like the details of their atrocities against humanity. Nicholas's ambush became Sapling's willing sacrifice (and did I mention I despise the way the names changed? It's hard to take the book seriously when suddenly everyone is calling Jamie Sapling); I thought it worked better as an ambush, although there were hints in The Silver Citadel that Martin knew it was going to happen. Nightrise had a much gorier depiction of the battle.
And for all that it was shorter, I think The Silver Citadel did a better job explaining the Old Ones and their powers versus the Five and their powers. Jamie's abilities don't work in the detention center---with no explanation beyond a lame "there must have been natural fluctuations." Jamie's powers seemed a lot more limited than Nicholas's.
Overall, this is worth a read if you've followed the series so far, but compared to the original book, I saw nothing worth adding the extra length. Conversely, I still thought many elements in the original book that had been removed worked a lot better than what replaced them. Neutral.
Shelved as 'zzzz'
November 14, 2021#1) Raven's Gate ★★★☆☆
#2) Evil Star ★★☆☆☆
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September 8, 2020
Reread
There were things I didn't like about this book but so many I loved so I can't get myself to give it less than 5. It's partly nostalgia but I also do believe that this book (and series) is great and I think it deserves it. Recommend.
There were things I didn't like about this book but so many I loved so I can't get myself to give it less than 5. It's partly nostalgia but I also do believe that this book (and series) is great and I think it deserves it. Recommend.
September 14, 2017
The story is building up and we find out about the evil nightrise corporation. Jamie and Scott are put in danger and an ancient tribe is their only hope.
February 3, 2018
4,
Because I love twins XD
Because I love twins XD
February 22, 2018
I wasn’t sure how to feel about this book, I found it a little confusing.
I second guessed myself thinking maybe I had read out of order. But I’d triple checked and held out, it does clarify itself later on!
I personally found this a bit slower paced but I think it ends up adding more information about Raven’s Gate that’s helpful to bulk out the realms.
I second guessed myself thinking maybe I had read out of order. But I’d triple checked and held out, it does clarify itself later on!
I personally found this a bit slower paced but I think it ends up adding more information about Raven’s Gate that’s helpful to bulk out the realms.
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