For longer than anyone knew, they were there. Before half the world died, before the lies became the truth, before anyone understood, the List Keepers were there . . . waiting. Click now to read the thrilling conclusion to the Justar Journal! Inside the books, it had predicted everything, the Banoff, the Aylantik, the AOI, the Doneharvest, the end, and even itself. The Justar Journal had always been there . . . waiting. With so many secrets hidden, Grandyn discovers something more extraordinary than he ever dreamed. The AOI must stop him from sharing it; they are far from his biggest problem. Blaise, Deuce, and Lance all need to control the secret. But the greatest danger may be the Trapciers, who must destroy it. He can only count on one person. She’s been waiting . . . and she belongs to the List Keepers. When searching for the truth, you may find it never existed. This conspiracy thriller will appeal to fans of Ray Bradbury, George Orwell, Marcus Sakey, Ernest Cline, Hugh Howey, Daniel Silva, Clive Cussler, Orson Scott Card, Pierce Brown, Blake Crouch, Douglas E. Richards, A.G. Riddle, Ursula Le Guin, and Suzanne Collins. Praise for the Justar Journal "Pushed all the right buttons - SciFi, mystery, techno-thriller, quotes from great authors . . . " "Fascinating, clever story reminiscent of 1984.” “Richly deep characters. His words flow smoothly over a textured plot that's interlaced with an imaginative world of science fiction, captivating readers.” “A complex conspiracy that kept me guessing and reading until I consumed the entire series!" "Very engaging plot with thought provoking turns. Very exciting read.” Find out why nearly a million copies of Brandt Legg's books have been sold/downloaded worldwide. The complete series is available now! THE LAST LIBRARIAN (Justar Journal #1) THE LOST TREERUNNER (Justar Journal #2) THE LIST KEEPERS (Justar Journal #3) Also By Brandt Legg CapWar ELECTION (CapStone Conspiracy #1) CapWar EXPERIENCE (CapStone Conspiracy #2) CapWar EMPIRE (CapStone Conspiracy #3) The CapStone Conspiracy (books 1-3) Cosega Search (Cosega Sequence #1 Cosega Storm (Cosega Sequence #2) Cosega Shift (Cosega Sequence #3) Cosega Sphere (Cosega Sequence #4) The Cosega Sequence (books 1-3) Outview (Inner Movement #1) Outin (Inner Movement #2) Outmove (Inner Movement #3) The complete Inner Movement trilogy
USA TODAY Bestselling Author Brandt Legg uses his unusual real life experiences to create page-turning novels. He’s traveled with CIA agents, dined with senators and congressmen, mingled with astronauts, chatted with governors and presidential candidates, had a private conversation with a Secretary of Defense he still doesn’t like to talk about, hung out with Oscar and Grammy winners, had drinks at the State Department, been pursued by tabloid reporters, and spent a birthday at the White House by invitation from the President of the United States.
At age eight, Legg's father died suddenly, plunging his family into poverty. Two years later, while suffering from crippling migraines, he started in business, and turned a hobby into a multi-million-dollar empire. National media dubbed him the “Teen Tycoon,” and by the mid-eighties, Legg was one of the top young entrepreneurs in America, appearing as high as number twenty-four on the list (when Steve Jobs was #1, Bill Gates #4, and Michael Dell #6). Legg still jokes that he should have gone into computers.
By his twenties, after years of buying and selling businesses, leveraging, and risk-taking, the high-flying Legg became ensnarled in the financial whirlwind of the junk bond eighties. The stock market crashed and a firestorm of trouble came down. The Teen Tycoon racked up more than a million dollars in legal fees, was betrayed by those closest to him, lost his entire fortune, and ended up serving time for financial improprieties.
After a year, Legg emerged from federal prison, chastened and wiser, and began anew. More than twenty-five years later, he’s now using all that hard-earned firsthand knowledge of conspiracies, corruption and high finance to weave his tales. Legg’s books pulse with authenticity.
His series have excited nearly a million readers around the world. Although he refused an offer to make a television movie about his life as a teenage millionaire, his autobiography is in the works. There has also been interest from Hollywood to turn his thrillers into films. With any luck, one day you’ll see your favorite characters on screen.
Legg now writes full time – his favorite endeavor ever! For more information, visit BrandtLegg.com, or to contact Brandt directly, email him: Brandt@BrandtLegg.com, he loves to hear from readers and always responds!
With the pace of a high-speed train, Brandt Legg’s latest trilogy, ‘The Justar Journal’ raced to its climatic finale in book three, ‘The List Keepers’. Fortunately at the controls author Legg guides the tale to a satisfactory conclusion after leaving the reader wondering if the devastation, double-crossing and twists and turns that filled the preceding pages would leave anyone alive in the last chapter. Suspenseful doesn’t describe the emotional drive of the narrative as we follow the distinct protagonists on their respective journeys, each fraught with imminent disaster and death.
As I mentioned in my review of a prior novel in the series, I found myself supporting not just the obvious protagonists but characters who had clearly been antagonists throughout as Legg threw spin after spin into the tale. Yet at no point did the solid storyline, replete with some very serious themes and warnings, suffer in the slightest, such is the mastery Brandt Legg exercises in his creations. The characters, as always, even the ‘Bad Guys’, were cleverly crafted to remain believable despite their incredible escapes from mortal danger. This trilogy has to be the author’s best yet.
I would make one observation to anyone unfamiliar with Legg’s work: read both the ‘Inner Movement’ and ‘Cosega Sequence’ trilogies first. Your overall enjoyment and wonder at the epic tale woven in these nine books will be further enhanced once you reach this final volume of ‘The Justar Journal’. Here is a true master of modern fiction at work.
This the third and final book in the Justar Journal series. Part of me wishes they had all been one nice big juicy book. I liked each of these a little less. This was maybe the least satisfying for me. The end seemed a little contrived. I would have liked a little more detail on how the new world was going to be created, but maybe that's the next series of books. I do like the characters, although Brandyn remained a bit under developed. It was an entertaining and quick read.
In the thrilling conclusion to the Justar Journal trilogy ,"The List Keepers" opens as the Chief of the AOI unleashes the war, blaming the hostilities on the PAWN rebels as a new plague sweeps across the land; Deuce Lipton searches for answers in the Justar Journal for fighting the conflict that's killing millions; Polis Drast escapes prison during a riot; and the IMPS and CHRUDE'S join force while Grandyn Happerman seeks for the truth about mankind's future among the mysterious List Keepers.
With multiple twists and turns, intensity and suspense heat up with forest fires and sonic bombs as AOI and their ally Lance Miner battle for control against the PAWtN and a new adversary the Trapciers. Fast-paced and action-packed, Brandt Legg does an excellent job of creating a futuristic world that spouts peace while vying for control after the Banoff and the Doneharvest as the Chief of the AOI brings humanity close to extinction.
Among a host of compelling and complex characters that infuse the plot with tension and passion are Blaise Cortez, a genius who's a brilliant investigator, clearheaded but hungry for power; Grandyn Happerman trained as a TreeRunner who's resourceful, loyal and protective of smart and observant Rye, a List Keeper; as well as the unsympathetic, cruel AOI Chief who's out to prove her worth.
I enjoyed " The List Keepers" and look forward to reading other Brandt Legg trilogies.
The last of the Justar Journal books this kept the excitement going for the most part....until the end. What an anticlimatic ending. I would still say I enjoyed the books.....but I sure did not get the ending, so bland, so blah.....so disappointing.
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I loved this whole series. It contains a lot of action but also contains some real warnings of how in a society those who would wield power may have new weapons to keep people wallowing in ignorance. The premise behind the book is plausible: when anything you read, including books, is in the cloud, itcan be easily edited at any time to remove any passages that could spur people to protest and oppose the government or big corporations that hold the keys to the information we need. In fact, a book you may have read may still exist as a title but may bear little resemblance to the original manuscript. The Librarians are those who are trying to save physical books, risking their lives in the process, to ensure that there will always be a physical backup of the books and other writings that have helped keep people free.
While often I find sequels to a book to be less intriguing than the original, the three books together, The Last Librarian, The Lost Treerunner, and The List Keepers, make for a rip-roaring story with an important message.
It was not lost on me that there is irony in the fact that I was reading the series on my Kindle, so who knows if someone tampered with the books I'm reading, including these! I take heart in the fact that the books are set in 2098 and we're not quite there yet, but maybe they just want us to think that this is not happening yet.
“The List Keepers” marks the conclusion to “The Justar Journal“ Trilogy by Brandt Legg, which, at first glance, is a typical example of speculative fiction with some dystopian elements thrown in for good measure. At second glance though, the story delves on some very interesting ideas: the links between information and facts, propaganda, power over knowledge, etc, etc. The trilogy offers an insight into a dystopian future seems to be coming more real with the past of time, after all the widespread of electronic information, which its consequent tempering possibilities, have increased multifold in the last half-decade.
“The List Keepers” concludes the story around Runit Happerman and his son Grandyn in a rollercoaster of twists and turns that seem to affect everybody involved, and sometimes let the reader wondering if there be someone to tale the tale after all. Nevertheless, after a suspenseful fast-ride that will let the reader wondering about the so called ‘truths’ and ‘facts’, after all in a society where everything exist in the cloud, and no real physical copies exist, tampering with the information and knowledge flux is just a couple of keys away.
This is a worthy conclusion to the trilogy, that manages to blend all narrative threads into a single cohesive and coherent story that stays with the reader long after the last page has been turned over.
This book is part of a trilogy. When I read the first book I had to read the other two!
I have been reading a lot of dystopian science fiction over the past year but I have never come upon a book quite like this one. It is hard to talk about what makes this story so different without giving away too much of the plot. Big business (especially Big Pharma) and big government team up to "save" the planet. People go blithely along in the perfect world that has been created being entertained and not asking questions. Everyone, that is, except those who know some of the truth and who want to right the wrongs that have been hidden from view.
It is not often that I pick up a book, much less three books, that I cannot put down. Circumstances forced me to take a break from the first book shortly after starting it but once I returned to it I had to read it, and the two others in the series, non-stop!
At the end of the first book, I read a short bio of the author - Brandt Legg. It turns out that his "true life story" sounds nearly as extreme and imaginary has the fiction he writes. Fascinating man and fascinating books.
Well, it was better than The Lost TreeRunner, but not as good as the Last Librarian. I found myself reading to find out how it was going to wrap up. I didn't love any of the characters; the only character I truly hated was the main villain. The trouble was that she was a character we were supposed to hate; if we weren't sure, the references to her as Hitler would make sure we knew hating her was the Right Thing to do.
Subtlety isn't this author's forte. I think the theme of this book can be summed up with this quotation: "You can’t compare evil. Evil is evil, whether it kills a thousand, a million, or a billion. Evil is the illness that has prevented humanity from reaching its true potential."
I can only recommend this dystopian SF book to fans of the series who managed to finish the second book. It is really a 3.5 star book. I rounded down because I don't like the author's repetition of ideas over and over and over and over and ... I honestly can grasp a concept the first time.
A very nice ending but in my opinion unlikely. There was still a lot of the characters quoting long dead authors, but except for that, the characters did seem to have fairly believable interactions, although some of the outcomes were fairly predictable.
There is plotting and deception and double-crossing and greed, everything you'd expect of the current evolution of man. The thought that we would actually try to develop our brains and be self-aware after thousands of years of being driven by greed and self-interest seems a bit contrived. Instead of putting down our weapons and trusting each other, I'd be betting on fighting to extinction.
The List Keepers--who have been mentioned but never actually revealed through out this series--who are they and what is their purpose? Well finally in the last of this marvelous series amidst a series of problems and near catastrophes you will find out. And the ever changing Juster Journal--what will the final chapter reveal, hope for or devastation of civilization. Will free will for all return? You will have to read to find out! The List Keepers: An AOI Thriller
All in all I enjoyed this series as a whole. It’s chilling to think that so much of it you could imagine happening. That being said a few things bothered me. For one, the only word we learn of this unified language is the curse word torgon. That annoyed me, if you’re going to introduce a new language, have more of the language or none of it at all. This series was very slow and repetitive. I also felt like we had so many “you are the key, this is going to save the world” build ups and in the end it all seemed to take a back seat. Again overall I like the story but the execution wasn’t my favorite.
THE JUSTAR JOURNAL - I read The Last Librarian and the author offered me this journal. Although I seldom read this genre, these three books were worth reading. Source: The author. 4*
THE LAST LIBRARIAN, #1 - A rather intriguing read filed with interesting story lines, a variety of characters and alliances, and plenty of twists and surprises. Enjoyable and easy to read. Reminiscent of Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 51 and other books, yet able to hold its own. There are two more books and the ending of TLL sets up the second book. 4*
THE LOST TREERUNNER, #2 - Interesting page turner. 4*
THE LIST KEEPER, #3 - Interesting page turner and ending. 4*
A series worth reading . It starts with the last librarian working to save at least some of the world's remaining printed books . The world is under control of one government . A corrupt one with greedy trillionaires pulling the strings . A security system run to keep the peace (by any means necessary . ) More corruption there . A journal that supposedly has the answers . The collusion of these corrupt agencies appears to be leading to the extinction of humans .
One of the things I love about this series is that it taps into one of my greatest fears, full digital versions but the loss of a true book. It starts there and takes you on such a wild ride, but the characters are so ingrained that you are fighting, hiding, running, moving through majestic places with them. Thank you to the author for bringing us this series and making me want to purchase the physical books as well ;).
The first book in the series is much better than the ones that follow. There are too many players and the character development is lacking. It was hard to keep up with all the twists and turns because they seemed disorganized. That said, the concept of being able to manipulate the human race by erasing the truth about history contained in books is fresh and exciting. It's worth reading just not mind-blowing.
This is the third and final Book in Justar Journal Book Series
Not my favorite if this Author simply because way to many people died and Runit was barely in this series. I thought I was gonna read about him and his experience instead you got everyone else's story and frankly I didn't care . I am happy that Booker made it but I wasn't surprised that Gail and Rip lived a normal life . I'm not giving up on this Author there are a few other series that I haven't read yet .
This is an engrossing series of books, and I enjoyed them. The final premise is that we as humans need to reinvent ourselves and our world to be a world truly without war. It is a very humanist perspective and I do not agree with it. Legg wants us to believe that we have the power and capabilities within us to do this. I believe there is a God that is beyond our human understanding and who loves us and will help us to evolve to this point that Legg is hoping to bring humankind.
This is the last book in the series The Justar Journals, featuring books being banned, corrupt governments out for world domination. (Sounds frighteningly familiar)
The world here is saved by normal people putting their lives on the line to overthrow the corruption.
Some great characters and character development. I think I would rate the book higher if it was more science fiction and less current affairs.
Humanity is at risk as the long expected "War" has arisen. Genocide is probably the better description as the AOI Chief, with delusions of grandeur, initiate the massacre of all people she regard as opposition. But it is the other component of the opposition, the Trapciers that raises the eyebrows most. A uprising by AI's ? Can Grandsyn really play a role in stopping this genocidal war or would it take the ultra secretive List Keepers to do so? Author Brandt Legg certainly raised the stakes sky high in this conclusion to the Justar Journal trilogy. Enjoy
A lot of buildup for a lot of let down. Grandyn was so important to the revolution and the ending of the war, but what exactly does he do? So many point plots make the story feel empty. No connection to any character because there isn't time to really connect with one singular character.
Very much enjoyed this series. Perfect for sci-fi fans and techies. The technical gadgetry was fascinating and believable. In an interesting twist the spiritual aspect countered the science. Definitely pulled me right in. I highly recommend reading all three books to lovers of sci-fi and the apocalyptic genre.
I loved this series because it rings so true to our current and probable future. Most of us easily see how governments have and are manipulating us for power, control and money. There needs to be something better and I hope this book (and the other two) gives us a glimpse of what can be.
Somewhat better than book 2, but not as good as the first book. There was just too much unbelievable stuff going on, not unbelievable in a wow way, just in a "I can't believe that" way. Sci-fi/fantasy should make you believe, and this one didn't. Not that interesting either. This series was almost like someone wrote the first book, lost interest, and turned it over to someone else to finish.
What a finale! There are so many things that can go wrong. So many characters that are in mortal peril. If just one little thing goes wrong, it could derail everything. Not only that…what is the best outcome of the many possibilities? This book was phenomenal and so completely engrossing, I didn’t want to put it down! I most highly recommend this series!
I enjoyed this series a great deal. The characters were interesting, I do think making the characters a little bit deeper would be good. I'll definitely will read other books by this author.
I found the first book of this series and thought that I would try a few pages. I could not put down the first book and I soon found myself finishing the third book. Anyone who starts this series wont regret it for a second. Congratulations to the author as well.
A great series with characters who evolve over the course of 3 books. Looking forward to the other booker series. Glad I have found a new author to follow and enjoy.
I don't get what happened to the end of this book. They were talking about all these things the list keepers were gonna do and then the book just ended. What's Going on? There was no ending To the book!!! I needed more and it doesn't make sense why he ended it so abruptly!
I happened to read The last librarian and I am forced to read the three books in series. They are so captivating, very interesting and unputdownable . Excellent story telling by BRANT LEGG. Now I want to read the last book in series The Justar Journal