The Avatar Chronicles: Reckoning of Roku

Exam's have started, I'm already knee-deep into my studying arc and flooded with PDF's, tutorial classes and YouTube videos leaving me with almost no time to even keep on commenting on hive.
Yet, like every good book lover would do, when the a new book to one of your favorite series is released, everything else goes a step down in priority and that book is number one.
That's why today, as irresponsible as it was, I flung away the PDF for Strength of Materials (exam that I'm having tomorrow) and dived into the fifth book of the Avatar Chronicles, the 3rd Avatar mentioned and the after Aang and Korra, the Avatar that most people and peop know about the most.

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Avatar Chronicles: The Reckoning of Roku🔥

Plot

The Avatar Cycle has begun a new, the fire nation has identified their new Avatar.
Roku the best friend of the next Fire Lord Sozin has to set out to gain experience, train in the ways of the other three elements and be able to bring balance to the world.
Yet before he could take care of the world, he has to rise above matters that concerns it, and for a fire national, that just might be a problem.

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One thing I love about these Avatar Chronicles is that it's something of a background check into the intimate world of the Avatar's, showing and telling us about fights and scenes that weren't available on the main story.

That's exactly what we see here with Roku's story.
We get to become familiarized with Aang's immediate predecessor and at such make connections with what we saw in the first season of The Last Airbender.

We see numerous characters and personalities in their younger form and grasp a greater understanding of their lives depicted in ATLA.
For example, the great monk Gyatso and his linkage to the Avatar Roku and then Aang.
Sozin, his mastery of fire bending and his obsession over finding Avatar Aang.
So many Easter eggs have been dropped and I really can't wait for the next book... If any.

It seems as though the series changed Author's, which was something I didn't know could be done.
I was so familiar with the writings of Y. C. Lee but it took a while to get used to Randy Ribay.
His writing wasn't bad, actually, I think he did a wonderful job in capturing the friendship between Roku and Gyatso, the sarcastic jokes were written splendidly and although I didn't laugh out loud (since my mom thought I was reading and there should be nothing funny about engineering books), I did find myself chuckling a bit.

We get to have a greater understanding about the Avatar world too, as Roku visits an island in the fire nation filled with spiritual energy that exponentially increases bending prowess.
In that island, we see Sozin's dark side coming to light and we get to guage just how high bending can influence something or someone.

I wouldn't want to dive deeper into the book cause it'll be hard without giving out some spoilers, yet it's a wonderful piece that I think everyone can enjoy✨

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