Raven Rise by D. J. MacHale is the ninth book in the Pendragon series. The tenth book came out a while back, and I decided to reread all the other books before reading the last book, and I finally finished the ninth one. According to D. J. MacHale, it's the Penultimate Pendragon, or the next to last book in the series. In this book, the main character, Bobby Pendragon, is having a good time. He's working to help restore the island of Ibara to it's previous beauty after the disaster with the attack of the dados on the shores at the end of the previous book. Bobby, as the lead Traveler, thinks the struggle is finally over between the Travelers and Saint Dane. He destroyed the flume from Ibara, trapping Saint Dane there with him. Yeah, there was a big mess he needed to clean up from the battle that had been fought on the island, but Bobby was enjoying a rather stress-free life.
While Bobby spent a peaceful time on the beach, Patrick, the Traveler from Third Earth - which is Earth 3000 years in the future - wakes up to find the world has changed drastically overnight. The world is in disarray, pollution is terrible, buildings have fallen down, and there is a strange group called the Ravinians who identify themselves by the tattoos on the arm. The part that is most strange is these Ravinians's tattoos are the same stars as those that mark the flumes which enable the Travelers to travel back and forth between the various territories, and the Ravinians are nothing like the Travelers. After Patrick witnessed Ravinians beat a helpless old man, and light a library on fire, Patrick decides to travel to Second Earth to see if he can find out what happened in Earth's past to cause all these strange changes to happen in what used to be his practically perfect world.
Courtney and Mark are also in for a shock when they return home to find the same group, the Ravinians in their home town, where the leader of this group claims to be the Traveler from Second Earth and lives on top of the flume they use to return home.
Alder returns to his home after the adventure in the last book, to find that the Beedowans are preparing for war with another tribe that lives over the mountain, and to be accused of being a traitor. Alder is confused at how things could change so drastically in such a short amount of time. When he left, his people were living in peace with each other and the other tribes and getting used to living together with the Milago, and now they were plotting the overtaking of other tribes.
Everyone knows that it is getting closer and closer to the event that Saint Dane has been talking about through the entire series: the Convergence. The only problem is, no one really knows what that means. They only know that whatever it is, it must be bad, because it's what Saint Dane wants. As the world seems to be falling apart Patrick, Courtney, Mark, Bobby, and Alder do all they can to stop the events from happening. The question is: can they stop Saint Dane before it's too late?
This book is very fast paced and has many many unexpected things happen as the tension rises throughout the book. The ending leaves the reader with many many questions that still need to be answered, that, hopefully, will all be answered in the tenth and final book.
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