I fear that the TV show would have used this as padding, as they did in the first series. Imagine chapter after chapter of Will meeting people, telling them the plan, then moving on, probably escaping a random Blackguard here or there. In the book, I am actually glad this was not realized by way of a point by point narrative as that would have stalled the story to an absolute crawl. Will is explaining how he went around creating sleeper cells for uncapped youths to eventually help in the rebellion. We never got to see a third season of the BBC television show based on these books, and I wonder what that would have been like? The main reason I ask is that this book has a lot of the story in the second act in an expositionary form i.e. And with the Masters’ plan to destroy Earth completely, Will may have just started the war that will end it all.” Although Will and his friends have planned everything down to the minute, the Masters still have surprises in store.

He has discovered the source of their power, and with this new knowledge, Will and his friends plan to return to the City of Gold and Lead to take down the Masters once and for all. After being held captive in the City of Gold and Lead-the capital, where the creatures that control the mechanical, monstrous Tripods live-Will believes that he’s learned everything he needs to know to destroy them. “Will must defeat the Tripods once and for all in this third book of a classic alien trilogy ideal for fans of Rick Yancey’s The 5th Wave and Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Shadow Children series. Now armed with extensive knowledge of the inner workings of “The Masters”, their weaknesses and their society, the next wave of the rebellion is heating up. Fearing the worst for his co-collaborator, Fritz, Will had to survive to ensure their infiltration plan wasn’t a bust. When we last left Will and his friends, Will had narrowly escaped the heart of the European Tripod City, but at seemingly a huge cost – the life on one of his friends. There is, actually, one more book that was written in the late 1980’s (that I believe is a prequel) that I will be reading sometime in the near future as well. Continuing from my last two reviews, I have finally come to the final book in the Tripods trilogy, The Pool of Fire, as written by John Christopher in the late 1960’s.

The Tripods Trilogy by John Christopher