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Jahanara: Princess of Princesses, India 1627 Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France 1769 Mary, Queen of Scots: Queen Without a Country, France 1553 Looks like this book is the beginning of an exceptional series.Įlizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor, England 1544 After you read this first one you will want the rest it happened to me, and to the person who read book 1 after me. You fall in love with this band of owls and cannot help but find yourself cheering them on. The story was stunning, the characters amazing. They meet up with Twilight and Digger, two owls that could not be more different and yet they form a band and journey towards Ga'Hoole together to warn them of the evil growing at St. Aggies and escape with the help of an older owl. We watch Soren and Gylfie endure the life at St. Together with a small friend, Soren escapes and soon they find themselves in a band of owls seeking out the legendary Guardians of Ga'Hoole. We begin the story with a family of Owls in the nest and soon one is stolen away to a terrible place full of dark secrets. This is the story of the Owl kingdoms, and of the classic battle between good and evil.

In this case it was a great surprise how wonderful the books were and they are so different from the movie that they are almost separate entities. I am usually leery of reading books about films I liked, in part because the books are often different and you get comfortable with what you first experience. There is so much detail and specifics that it was wonderful to read. The depth of character and the progress in the book is amazing. Now that I have read the first one, I know I will need to read them all in short order, as these books are so much better than the movie. I loved the movie when I saw it, but the books had been on my to-be-read list for a long time.

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