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The Legacy Chronicles #3
Up in Smoke
The X-Files meets The X-Men in this digital original companion series that's set in the world of Pittacus Lore’s #1 New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series and coincides with Generation One.
This is the third 100-page novella, continuing the exciting story of fan favorite characters Six and Sam. Following their dangerous battle in the mountains of Montana, the couple has now been ripped apart.
Sam is imprisoned aboard a ship that’s miles off the coast of Mexico. His Legacies have been taken away from him. He doesn’t have any back-up. And if he can’t find a way to free himself soon, he’s going to become a lab experiment.
Although safely recovering at the Human Garde Academy, Six has had her abilities stripped as well. Ignoring everyone’s warnings, though, she decides to mount a rescue mission with the help of Nine and her young charge Nemo. But it’s three of them versus who knows how many teens with Legacies who may be working for their enemy….
Six and Sam may no longer have their powers, but does it mean they’re truly powerless?
The Legacy Chronicles novellas are published as individual digital originals, and the first three stories will also be available together in one print volume: The Legacy Chronicles: Trial by Fire.
This is the third 100-page novella, continuing the exciting story of fan favorite characters Six and Sam. Following their dangerous battle in the mountains of Montana, the couple has now been ripped apart.
Sam is imprisoned aboard a ship that’s miles off the coast of Mexico. His Legacies have been taken away from him. He doesn’t have any back-up. And if he can’t find a way to free himself soon, he’s going to become a lab experiment.
Although safely recovering at the Human Garde Academy, Six has had her abilities stripped as well. Ignoring everyone’s warnings, though, she decides to mount a rescue mission with the help of Nine and her young charge Nemo. But it’s three of them versus who knows how many teens with Legacies who may be working for their enemy….
Six and Sam may no longer have their powers, but does it mean they’re truly powerless?
The Legacy Chronicles novellas are published as individual digital originals, and the first three stories will also be available together in one print volume: The Legacy Chronicles: Trial by Fire.
185 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 29, 2018
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April 30, 2019
3.5 stars
I have conflicting feelings about this book.
The world building and story were good, I will remain in love with this universe and all the possibilities that it has, the direction that is taking and the pace in which it moves. There I had no issues.
But the characters were... Well lacking. Not even exactly the characters but rather their interactions with each other. It just felt like some of the chemistry was missing. It may have been due to the situation, but in any way, it just wasn't satisfying.
Leaving that behind, the plot just got more interesting. It took a surprisingly dark turn that I wasn't expecting at all - responsible to most of the rating at the end - and adds a great depth to the story.
Still, these side stories are not that bad. Is useful to remember that these side stories and the main action happens in the main books. This is ways to fill us in, in what may become important details.
I have conflicting feelings about this book.
The world building and story were good, I will remain in love with this universe and all the possibilities that it has, the direction that is taking and the pace in which it moves. There I had no issues.
But the characters were... Well lacking. Not even exactly the characters but rather their interactions with each other. It just felt like some of the chemistry was missing. It may have been due to the situation, but in any way, it just wasn't satisfying.
Leaving that behind, the plot just got more interesting. It took a surprisingly dark turn that I wasn't expecting at all - responsible to most of the rating at the end - and adds a great depth to the story.
Still, these side stories are not that bad. Is useful to remember that these side stories and the main action happens in the main books. This is ways to fill us in, in what may become important details.
July 28, 2018
"Up in Smoke" no está a la altura de la emoción de las novelas anteriores. En esta separados, Seis y Sam se esfuerzan cada uno por descubrir qué está pasando para poder vencer las amenazas más recientes en su contra. Utilizando la inteligencia y sus habilidades de combate (aunque no sus legados, que han sido bloqueados), determinan en la medida de sus capacidades cómo vencer a estos enemigos más nuevos.
Me encanta leer aventuras de Nueve, pero todo ese drama romántico que siempre ocurre con Seis y Sam, es tedioso y la trama en general se pierde.
Me encanta leer aventuras de Nueve, pero todo ese drama romántico que siempre ocurre con Seis y Sam, es tedioso y la trama en general se pierde.
April 13, 2020
Final Rating: 3 Stars
June 2, 2018
Rating: 3.5/5
Review to come!
Review to come!
July 12, 2018
Obsessed with anything Samix to be honest, so if it has Samix in it it's getting 5 🌟
January 11, 2022
Story happening in the novellas seems as big if not more complex than the story in main books .
Cant believe that three novellas in and its still getting even more complicated.
Four and Marina were rude af tho
Cant believe that three novellas in and its still getting even more complicated.
Four and Marina were rude af tho
August 26, 2024
I love all things Six and Sam, their side quests deserved to be written!
May 16, 2020
Still enjoying this set of short stories focusing on Sam and Six set after the original series and overlapping with Generation One (the Reborn series).
July 24, 2018
Six is amazing. Like, she just is. Even without her powers, she still kicks butt and it's amazing. She'll be back, no doubts.
I like how Nemo has gotten to the "capable" level where she can fend for herself. Her character has really grown during the past two shorts. I feel like she's kinda stubborn about Ghost, but I get it, they were friends.
Honestly when Seamus said that there was something Sam should've known about his dad, I thought McKenna was going to become some secret Mogadorian double-agent or something. I didn't forget about what Seamus said, and I'm glad that Sam remembered to follow up.
The tease of John and Marina... I wanted them to show up so badly.
I like how Nemo has gotten to the "capable" level where she can fend for herself. Her character has really grown during the past two shorts. I feel like she's kinda stubborn about Ghost, but I get it, they were friends.
Honestly when Seamus said that there was something Sam should've known about his dad, I thought McKenna was going to become some secret Mogadorian double-agent or something. I didn't forget about what Seamus said, and I'm glad that Sam remembered to follow up.
The tease of John and Marina... I wanted them to show up so badly.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 6, 2018
I really enjoyed the original series. This departure is painful. The only reason I read this book is because I’d already bought it. I’ll use dialogue from the book to make my point.
“I have to say, it’s hard to believe you
guys defeated the entire Mog army.”
I’m in total agreement. To keep this plot on track, the author had to remove all of Sam’s and Six’s legacies. Then, Sam is captured and is held in a room with a computer and internet connection which he uses to email his location to Six. OMG. What luck!
“He went over to the desk and looked at the computer.
It was on. He searched around the desktop, found an icon
for an internet browser and clicked on it. When it opened,
he said a silent thank-you for his luck, then went to his
email account. As it opened, he fished out the paper in his
pocket and unfolded it. Then he typed a quick email to Six
and hit Send.”
This spin-off? Doesn’t sound so successful.
“[O]ur Legacies gone, and now we find out we’re actually
working for some group no one wants to give us any real
information about and who has taken the technology our
mission brought back. Doesn’t sound so successful. Not to
me, anyway.”
And finally, the dialogue was so stilted. ‘He said’ or ‘she said’ or somebody ‘said’ was at the end of nearly every sentence.
“I have to say, it’s hard to believe you
guys defeated the entire Mog army.”
I’m in total agreement. To keep this plot on track, the author had to remove all of Sam’s and Six’s legacies. Then, Sam is captured and is held in a room with a computer and internet connection which he uses to email his location to Six. OMG. What luck!
“He went over to the desk and looked at the computer.
It was on. He searched around the desktop, found an icon
for an internet browser and clicked on it. When it opened,
he said a silent thank-you for his luck, then went to his
email account. As it opened, he fished out the paper in his
pocket and unfolded it. Then he typed a quick email to Six
and hit Send.”
This spin-off? Doesn’t sound so successful.
“[O]ur Legacies gone, and now we find out we’re actually
working for some group no one wants to give us any real
information about and who has taken the technology our
mission brought back. Doesn’t sound so successful. Not to
me, anyway.”
And finally, the dialogue was so stilted. ‘He said’ or ‘she said’ or somebody ‘said’ was at the end of nearly every sentence.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 8, 2024
Are we even sure that James Frey is *actually* writing these novellas and wasn’t replaced by another author? cause damn. The storytelling and writing went completely downhill compared with the original series. Algo, repeating every few pages that Nemo is /exactly/ like Six won’t make it real. It’s awful when authors start milking their projects with a bunch of low quality spinoffs.
June 10, 2023
3.8🌟
"Physic is complicate, help your friends that's not"
Después de una misión fallida para la Garde, Sam y Seis están en aprietos ya que no solo no pudieron recuperar a los chicos secuestrados, si no que ellos también fueron secuestrados y no solo eso, perdieron su mayor ventaja en batalla.
Al ser liberados se dan cuenta de que han estado trabajando para alguien que no es completamente honesto con ellos, al enterarse, deciden confrontarlo y tras ver sus verdaderas intenciones Seis decide dejar todo, ya que ha pasado por mucho y nadie le ha sido honesto.
Ahora ella tendrá que decidir si cumplir con la promesa que había hecho y seguir peleando o renunciar a todo por lo que ella cree correcto.
"Physic is complicate, help your friends that's not"
Después de una misión fallida para la Garde, Sam y Seis están en aprietos ya que no solo no pudieron recuperar a los chicos secuestrados, si no que ellos también fueron secuestrados y no solo eso, perdieron su mayor ventaja en batalla.
Al ser liberados se dan cuenta de que han estado trabajando para alguien que no es completamente honesto con ellos, al enterarse, deciden confrontarlo y tras ver sus verdaderas intenciones Seis decide dejar todo, ya que ha pasado por mucho y nadie le ha sido honesto.
Ahora ella tendrá que decidir si cumplir con la promesa que había hecho y seguir peleando o renunciar a todo por lo que ella cree correcto.
March 15, 2019
If you've read the entirety of the I am Number Four series and absolutely need more, then this 4-novella-long miniseries (soon to be 6-novellas-long) is perfect for you. If you haven't read the entirety of the I am Number Four series, or you did and didn't quite enjoy it, then don't read these. They're basically a sequel series to the original series except much shorter and quite a bit more disappointing.
June 26, 2018
Separated, Six and Sam each struggles to figure out what's going on so that they can defeat the newest threats against them. Using cleverness and their fighting skills (although not their Legacies, which have been blocked), they determine to the best of their abilities how to overcome these newest enemies. "Up in Smoke" does not quite live up to the excitement of the earlier novellas.
October 20, 2023
Up in Smoke queda muy por debajo de la aventura que caracteriza esta saga. Sus acontecimientos son repetitivos respecto a la trama de los dos libros antecesores. Los momentos de tensión o peligro no logran transmitirlo realmente, haciendo que se vuelva muy monótono. Pero en fin, siempre es bueno volver a ver a la garde original.
November 27, 2021
I just want to say that the scene when Nemo was in the water with Dennings and she called the sharks to kill him. That was THE best and most satisfying part of the whole story. I loved it. Anyways that’s all I have to say.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 27, 2021
Acho que esse livro foi uma boa finalização pra primeira parte dessa história, fiquei surpresa e puta com alguns acontecimentos mas tudo se resolveu na medida do possível. Infelizmente o sentimento de preguiça permanece, o que me impede de aproveitar e gostar mais do livro.
June 3, 2018
Ni sé porqué sigo leyendo esto, bye.
June 14, 2018
Definitely my favorite of the novellas so far, and I’m very interested to see how this will tie into the next book.
September 7, 2018
Full review here: https://alexandrabemm.wordpress.com/2...
October 21, 2018
I really enjoy reading this series about another planet and another race. It is fast paced and lots of action.
October 27, 2019
Please refer to my reading progress.
January 27, 2020
Me encantó pero es muy corto!
October 29, 2020
Fun, but very simple, lacks the development and creativity of the previous I Am Number Four books.
February 2, 2021
Sam has always been my favorite. I love that I get more of him in these books.
July 23, 2021
Ghost that little bitch. I hope she gets what she deserves on the next book.
March 14, 2025
This one is the best short story in this series so far.
May 8, 2025
3.5 ⭐
cuáles eran las probabilidades de que vayan a una mision en ARGENTINA y hablen de un TUCUMANO
nemo convirtiéndose en mini seis kskdkskfk las amo
cuáles eran las probabilidades de que vayan a una mision en ARGENTINA y hablen de un TUCUMANO
nemo convirtiéndose en mini seis kskdkskfk las amo
April 30, 2023
In this third and final Novella, Six and Sam, along with there gang of misfits realise that Dennings is organising not just fights between the Human Garde, but he is bringing them to locations so that rich people can actually hunt and kill them like trophies. Further to this, they have also realised that they are being run by someone else, and that this person wants to remove certain parts of their brains so that he can harvest glands from them, and try and gain access to their powers, not only for himself, but for other rich people (older rich people of course, who are annoyed that only teenagers gained access to Loric Legacies).
In this final part of the first three Novella’s, there is a race against time to save several lives, as Sam has been taken by Dennings and his crew. But there are others still missing also, and it is only a matter of time before they turn up dead.
I don’t want to give anything away, no spoilers for the third Novella.
This is an intense end to this part of the Saga, with everything coming to a climatic end as Six and the other Human Garde start a desperate search, aided by Nine, Lexa and other elements of the HGA to find those missing before it is too late. They are joined by McKenna and his resources, but there are other aspects to McKenna’s story that become apparent in this third book that leave Six reeling and unclose all sorts of connections.
The Chronicles continue to be a political thriller that is very cleverly done, bringing in aspects of not just the Loric characters and the Human Garde, but all sorts of other factions from the previous stories and new aspects as well. It makes for a really great read.
The world building continues to be fantastic in this series, using well thought out locations that have been connected well (especially given the use of teleporters), but when they are described, you really feel like you are in those locations (The descriptions of the at-street level stuff is amazing, you really feel like you are watching some of the performance art, or walking down those streets, which as someone on the other side of the world, I really appreciated. It is something I quite often point out as an Aussie, that I don’t feel that connection sometimes, but this has been done very well).
As with each of the books – the character work has been brilliant, from Sam and Six, who continue to be exceptional characters, to the new list of Human Garde. I said in the last review, I really thought Sam had developed so well from the original character he was, into this new grown up (almost adult?), as he has seen so much, matured. He takes the younger Garde on, passing on his experience, not just Legacy, but also life experience, and does it so well. This is one of the really great parts of this series.
Six is another great character, who is struggling with the angst of her coming to grips with who she is after the end of the Mog War, and now being a Loric on a planet full of Humans. She is an alien out of time and space, in a time of supposed peace, without a war. She is really struggling, and it is interesting watching her character develop.
Added to that are the younger Garde, coming to grips with new Legacies that have been thrust upon them, in a world that seems them as freaks, parents disowning them, a world that is forcing them to go to the HGA, they have no rights just because some alien gave them superpowers? How is that fair? Their lives have been ruined in their eyes. It is fascinating to watch.
This is a really great series to read – and this final part is really brilliant as it wraps up this storyline with Dennings and the ‘Fight Club’, as well as some of these kids, and what is going to happen to them. This is an absolute must read for any fan of the series.
In this final part of the first three Novella’s, there is a race against time to save several lives, as Sam has been taken by Dennings and his crew. But there are others still missing also, and it is only a matter of time before they turn up dead.
I don’t want to give anything away, no spoilers for the third Novella.
This is an intense end to this part of the Saga, with everything coming to a climatic end as Six and the other Human Garde start a desperate search, aided by Nine, Lexa and other elements of the HGA to find those missing before it is too late. They are joined by McKenna and his resources, but there are other aspects to McKenna’s story that become apparent in this third book that leave Six reeling and unclose all sorts of connections.
The Chronicles continue to be a political thriller that is very cleverly done, bringing in aspects of not just the Loric characters and the Human Garde, but all sorts of other factions from the previous stories and new aspects as well. It makes for a really great read.
The world building continues to be fantastic in this series, using well thought out locations that have been connected well (especially given the use of teleporters), but when they are described, you really feel like you are in those locations (The descriptions of the at-street level stuff is amazing, you really feel like you are watching some of the performance art, or walking down those streets, which as someone on the other side of the world, I really appreciated. It is something I quite often point out as an Aussie, that I don’t feel that connection sometimes, but this has been done very well).
As with each of the books – the character work has been brilliant, from Sam and Six, who continue to be exceptional characters, to the new list of Human Garde. I said in the last review, I really thought Sam had developed so well from the original character he was, into this new grown up (almost adult?), as he has seen so much, matured. He takes the younger Garde on, passing on his experience, not just Legacy, but also life experience, and does it so well. This is one of the really great parts of this series.
Six is another great character, who is struggling with the angst of her coming to grips with who she is after the end of the Mog War, and now being a Loric on a planet full of Humans. She is an alien out of time and space, in a time of supposed peace, without a war. She is really struggling, and it is interesting watching her character develop.
Added to that are the younger Garde, coming to grips with new Legacies that have been thrust upon them, in a world that seems them as freaks, parents disowning them, a world that is forcing them to go to the HGA, they have no rights just because some alien gave them superpowers? How is that fair? Their lives have been ruined in their eyes. It is fascinating to watch.
This is a really great series to read – and this final part is really brilliant as it wraps up this storyline with Dennings and the ‘Fight Club’, as well as some of these kids, and what is going to happen to them. This is an absolute must read for any fan of the series.
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