Michael Vey 7: The Final Spark (7)

Just finished the last book in the series. This series is being read by everyone in my family in turn. We fought over the books as a couple of us were on the same one at the same time. You would see a book mark in the book that was not your own and read all day until you passed the other bookmark. Excellent story! Fun to read!

5 stars, all the way. I ordered my copy the day it was available for pre-order, and finished the book within 5 hours of it downloading the morning of release. Had the entire book wrapped up before the kids were awake and getting ready for school. It's taken me a couple days to write my review, as life has a way of interfering with those sort of things from time to time. 😊I was horrified to learn the series was wrapping up, despite knowing it had to at some point. I'm not the type to spoil the book for those reading the reviews, so there will NOT be any "spoiler alerts" here. If that's what you're looking for, you need to read someone else's review.RPE nailed the conclusion to his Vey series. After the annihilation of Hades, I didn't know what to expect. All I knew was it was going to have to be epic.RPE did not disappoint.Surprises still around every corner, prophecies questioned and put to the test, and the best lessons about life that could possibly be taught.I am hoping, though it may just be wishful thinking than anything else, that there might be a spin-off to the series in the future... The next generation, perhaps? After all, the final couple pages seemed to lend to a possibility of that. But, again, maybe it's just a hope and a dream...?Whether you're new to the series or you're a Veyniac like myself, you won't be disappointed in RPE's series finale.Congratulations, Evans, on another amazing novel! You never fail to deliver!

What a fantastic book to end the Michael Vey series! I know this book series was written for teens, but I have loved reading it along with my teenagers. My daughter and I were able to go to the launch party for this 7th book, where we purchased this book a few days early. We both devoured book 7 within the next 24 hours (since the 6th book left with such a cliffhanger!) We couldn't put it down since we had to find out what happened to Michael Vey! I won't spoil it for you, but I will say this: 1. Dr Hatch only gets to be worse of a bad guy, 2. Everything seems to go from bad to worse for the Electroclan, and 3. The ending is epic and I was very satisfied with how this series ended.Richard Paul Evans has written another best seller! I love that his characters are so relatable. They are real. I love that this series is "clean." I have no problems with even my young teens reading it. I also love that one of the heroes of this series is a boy that has a disability (Tourettes). As the mother of kiddos on the autism spectrum, I want to champion any series that teaches teens that they are awesome in spite of the things that make them different. Great read, great morals, and great end to the series!

This series has been an incredible, action packed journey for me. I started the series 7 years ago when the 2nd book had only just come out. Every single year I would keep re-reading the previous books while I waited for September to come and the next book to come out. I'd shared this series with all my friends and I couldn't imagine how amazing the finale would be.But it wasnt.And I really wish it was.The other books had set a certain standard that, while pretty good, was still easily surpassable.SO WHAT WAS WRONG?A lot if I'm honest.Here is the SPOILER FREE take on it.1. Plot wise it was extremely uneven. There were some parts that went waaaaaay to slowly, and the most important parts were totally rushed through. The previous books had generally had good, steady plots and storylines which made you want to finish. That was definitely not the case here.2. The author spent way too much time on introducing insignificant new characters and probably the majority of the chapters on the Tavulu resistance taking back their islands.3. Yes, there are many revelations, most of which came out of nowhere and aside from almost making no sense, had no buildup from the previous books or even the start of this one. If you're going to drop a bombshell on the readers, at least make it look like you're trying.4. I didn't feel Evans did justice to any of the main characters. They didn't have many chapters focused on them, and it didn't even feel like it was THEM. Personality wise, dialogue wise, nothing. I guess it was hard to distribute focus on so many characters (espcially all the members of the electroclan) but no excuse. When I see Torstyn having more lines than Ian, Abigail, maybe even Mckenna... thats not okay.5. This book we didn't get to see almost anyone actually using their power. It was so cool in the other books how they used their power and fought. Another reason why the book was way less exciting.5. Usually the sciency parts of this series can kinda sort of make sense if you really try....NOT in this book. Simply put, nothing made sense.5. I wasn't so satisfied with the conclusion, I had so many questions left unanswered.**********SPOILER VERSION DOWN BELOW************For all those who have read books one through six and you just want to see it end, it will at least give you closure. Not much, though. Since my bitter disappointment with Blood of Olympus which ended the percy jackson series (and along with it my respect for the author ) I've seen too many series finales falling dramatically short on every level and expectation. This will probably be the only Vey book I won't reread and I'm fine with that.********************SPOILERS************************(or for people who have now been convinced not to read the series and just want to know what happens. Thats good too.)1. for the life of me I will never understand why all the main action of the ENTIRE BOOK happened between page 290 and 299. Or close to that. SERIOUSLY? I bought the book for 9 pages of semi enjoyable reading. That is not okay.2. Biggest mistake was waiting till the end of the book to bring back Michael. He was one of my favorite characters and he gets less than a chapters worth of appearance. AND THE SERIES IS NAMED AFTER HIM.3. Michael didn't even act like michael. He sounded way too smart and had none of the sass we'd seen in the rest of the series. Michael had had such a good character arc and it was really great watching him grow throughout the series. And all that great characterization seems like it disappeared. That being said, most of the characters didn't act like themselves. Hatch's glows like Quention and Tara seemed to have transformed over night into good people. Yeah, so hatch betrayed them and all that, but they were still selfish, jaded, spoiled, violent teenagers. Cassy doesn't sound like cheeky, confident Cassy at all, not once. And all the other Glows barely had any dialogue4. When everyone sees Michael alive they're all like "hey what's up, we knew you really weren't dead" I'm referring specifically to Taylor and Ostin and honestly everyone else. Only his mother cried and reacted at all.5. No reason that made actual sense why michael survived, and it did't elaberate how it changed him at all. He got all this new power and weird abilities and the book just blips over that.6. Carl Vey. No buildup from the other books and a false alarm in book #5 = really unnecessary bad reveal. And, wasn't Michael's Mom interested in that other guy from the resitance. And it never mentions in the epilogue how it is to have his father back in his life or anything about his parents relationship now. Big miss out.7. This new glow Zara was completely unrealistic, and thats saying something for a sci-fi book. Her powers were way to powerful and unbelievable, and it didnt expain HOW it was possible for her to do that like it did with the other glows. Also, if Hatch had had her all this time, he wouldve used her a million times ago to defeat the Electroclan. She also had no backstory and what was she even doing this whole time and where was she. And did she die at the end? I couldn't tell8. Hatch's death was way too uneventful. he was an evil man who killed millions and he just gets vaporized?!?8. So apparently they just moved back to meridian after being missing and some presumed dead for who knows how long and no one bats an eye, no one calls the cops. They just went back to school?!9. ********IMPORTANT ONE******** THEY NEVER EXPLAINED WHY ONLY THOSE 17 KIDS SURVIVED AND NO ONE ELSE AND THEY LITERALLY WERE BUILDING UP TO THAT FROM BOOK ONE AND ON. I waited 7 years to hear an answer I'd never get.10. hated the epilogue. None of them sounded like themselves and it seemed too perfect and made no sense11. what happened to the elgen? Really, i wouldnt even have minded if Michael narrated what happened after the last battle in story form like many books do. At least I could've been satistfied with the ending a bit more.I probably could harp on this book a lot more but for now its enough. Definitely the worst book out of all of them and I still feel left hanging

The seventh and final Michael Vey book, The Final Spark picks up where the sixth book left off. The big question is whether Michael is gone for good or not and if he is, whether the Electroclan can succeed without him. By 3/4 of the way through the book I was pretty sure there was no way it could be wrapped up in just a few more pages. A couple things I had guessed a few books ago were almost, but not quite, right. This is an amazing end to a wonderful series. I highly recommend reading The Final Spark (and the entire Michael Vey series) to people of all ages. My 11- and almost 16-year-old sons enjoy Michael Vey as much as I do and I enjoy them as much as my 70-something parents!

Magnificent, simply magnificent.Great book , great series: it has everything;- danger excitement etc...Looooooove it !!!One of the best books ( and series ) i've ever read.Definitley recomend. defo gonna read the whole series again.Brilliant...

Awesome Awesome Awesome AwesomeAwesome. This book is literally one of the best books ever written in the history of the universe.

Libro quasi perfetto, storia particolare peccato finisca subito.

Awesome product !

Great