Trapped in a cargo plane. High over the jungle. The DARE winners have no choice. They must jump!
If they can get off the plane alive, and survive an attack by the remnants of Marco Bravo’s army, the DARE winners will have to confront Felix Scott with all the evidence they have that he is The Signmaker.
What will their enemy do if he’s backed into a corner?
From Bogota, Colombia, to Sydney, Australia, the DARE winners have to risk everything to get to the truth and stop The Signmaker’s plan for world destruction–before time is up. But it’s not just the clock that’s against them.
The tide is turning and they’re about to face their most deadly challenge yet.
If you could be a hero, would you DARE? Seven Signs. Two days left to save the world.
HOLY GUACAMOLE!!! THIS! IS! MY! FAV! SEVEN! SIGNS! I love it because it's in Australia! MY PEOPLE!!!!! YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND! IT WAS ALL LIKE CIRCULAR QUAY AND I WAS LIKE "AYYYYYYYYYYYYYY" I FREEEEAAAAAKING LOVE DYLAN!!! I LOVE WHEN HE IS JUST REFERRED TO AS THE AUSSIE!!!! AHHHHHHHHHH I LOVE IT!!
I AM SO PUMPED FOR BATTLEFRONT!! SET IN ANTARTICA!
At this point, there's a formula in these novels that's getting old - start and end are action-packed, middle is a bit more mellow, and it's the middle that I'm more interested in, despite this series being focused on action.
Giving this novel what little credit I can, it does capture the feeling of a world entering political meltdown, however outrageous the circumstances are, and when Felix explains his motivations, that does add something. But aside from that, what can I say? The front cover gives things away, and if it doesn't, as soon as a nuclear sub is mentioned off the coast of Sydney, it's immediately apparent what the disaster is going to be this time. Also, apparently, NSW police are willing to shoot at teenagers. Yeah...sure, buddy. I know this takes place in the 2020s/30s (or less semantically, some undetermined place in the future a few decades from now), but I can't see things changing THAT much.
That's part of my gripe with the series overall, really. It's not just that action is tiresome when it's the bulk of the work, it's not just that the DARE Seven are still barely defined characters six books in (to the extent that of the seven, four are interchangeable to the point that I often forget which character comes from which country), it's that so little time is spent on defining the world that things take place in, and whatever issues it raises about the digital age is nothing but allusions. Even by the standards of an action story, it still falls short.
Meh. I'm reading the final book now, so we'll see if things get better.
This series is like a car crash it is just terrible but you can't look away. The set ups are just so ridiculous and the plot is just astounding (in not a good way) The ultimate was the how many people went to St Ives part where no one among the brightest and best knew the answer (sigh) Lots of action and very little substance. This is the top of a cappuccino book!