(Disclaimer: This is a review through a Christian perspective, so if you don't identify your self as a Christian or don't know anything of that nature, you may have a hard time understanding)
In Faulkner's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, he said the main job of the writer is to write about the human heart.
I've been reading a lot of books lately, and all of them have had really good stories, but are missing one thing: the demonstration of the human heart.
Luckily for Lisa T. Bergren's Remnants series, she does just that.
Through the adventure of Adriana (or Dri) and her friends, they are called by the Maker to a journey to overthrow the powerful kingdom Pacifica and rid the world of darkness as righteous, literally God-sent-warriors. Furthermore, I feel like this book is pointed more to teen Christian girls such as myself.
One of the best things about this book is the morals I can take away on each chapter. As a Christian, there a lot of books which denounces God and His will. However, this book does just the opposite. Bergren does an amazing job encouraging me and reminding me of how good and great God is! The subjects that Bergren touches such as temptation, dating/marriage, and forgiveness, it really inspired me to do more of these things and follow what God wants me to do and be a warrior for Him too, in a sense. All of these subjects do touch on the subject of the human heart, and how to overcome that pesky sin nature. Because of all the morals Bergren includes in her book, it really made reading this series so much more filling and complete.
Furthermore, the characters make the book so much more elevated. When I step back and look at the characters, together they represent the church, a group of believers. In books, I would see characters be overall the same. However, Bergren really diversifies the characters, such as Bellona, a bold, strong, and serious warrior, and Tressa, a gentle healer. These two may be very different, but they both serve an important role as the Knights of the Last Order. (which represent the body of Christ/ the church) Overall, Bergren really diversifies each of her characters and I love it! (My favorite is Vidar, unbelievably charming and hilarious)
Unfortunately, in one part of the second book, it got really slow. Nothing really was going on. I could see that the purpose of that part of the book is, but I felt like Bergren really extended it longer than it should have been, making it boring in just that one part of the second book.
Overall, I really enjoyed this book through and through. It was written with great quality, and it will not fail you from encouraging you in your daily life as a Christian.
I rarely give books a five-star rating, but this series really deserves a ten star, because it is SO rare that I see books with such good morals to it.
Thank you so much for reading my review and I hope this was a help to you!
Kandice