This post might be considered controversial to some, so I just wanted to say I’m not trying to offend anyone I just like reviewing books.

Personally I have a lot of disdain for KOTLC and I will gladly explain why in the following as I believe that it is extremely important for people to know what their children are reading. Before you read the following please be aware that I have written this not because I like shaming other peoples writing but because I remember how utterly devastated I was when I read the latest book and realized all of the messaging that had been going on throughout the entire series.

KOTLC follows a twelve-year-old girl named Sophie, she starts out in California with her family, consisting of a mother, a father, and a little sister. Sophie is very intelligent and happens to be a twelve-year-old high school senior. The book starts out with her in a museum with her history class learning about dinosaurs. Sophie, however, is listening to music, because she is a telepath and she is trying to tune out all the thoughts she is hearing. She gets in trouble for this but she uses her photographic memory to recite an entire lecture on one of the dinosaurs and because of that the teacher can’t punish her. The class moves into the next room and she stays behind. There is a boy across in the same room looking at the newspaper, which happens to have a picture of her on it. He then sees her and starts walking over, long story short they figure out that they are both telepaths, and Sophie runs away because she has never met a telepath before. Eventually the boy, Fitz Vacker, convinces her that she is an elf and she doesn’t belong in California with her family. That night Sophie goes home and doesn’t tell her parents about it, first bad sign, then the next day she proceeds to let Fitz take her to the Elves land.  She finds out that no one knows who her parents are and that she is thought to be a genetically modified elf, that is to say a corrupt organization had modified her and implanted her into a human so that she would think she was a human. Over the next 10 books (counting the point five ones) she disobeys her adoptive elf parents and the elven government, the council, countless times and she always ends up in the right. She almost dies in every book, but a few weeks later she is completely fine and back to her disobedient ways. She also gets involved in a love triangle with Keefe and Fitz. For the first 9 books she is completely and utterly devoted to Fitz, who is made out to be the bad guy in this because he is the only character with a legitimate character flaw, but then in the last two books she decides that she has actually been in love with Keefe this whole time so now she is going to completely forget about Fitz and go to Keefe. Keefe also has a lot of issues in his life, his father believes that love is ‘distracting’ and therefore shows no love whatsoever towards his child. Keefe’s mother on the other hand is the leader of another evil organization called the neverseen, and she repeatedly hurts Keefe, Sophie, and all of their friends, who are still teenagers. Fitz goes a little bit overboard with his character flaw when he decides to devote his life to killing his older brother Alvar who has joined the Neverseen because he thought he was helping the elven world. Keefe ends up running away from his dad. Be warned that this is portrayed as a good decision. I have left out a lot of details but I think you get where I am going with this so I won’t take anymore of your time. 

As a last note before you read these books please understand that in the latest book there are also some woke bits. If you want a good story about elves I recommend reading The Hobbit and/or The Lord of the Rings. 

~Elowyn A. Archer