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My Obbesion With KOTLC

⚠️SPOLIER WARNING!!!!⚠️

Some of you might not know but kotlc, stands for Keeper of the Lost Cities.

This is a book series written by Shannon messenger, that I have, borderline, become obsessed with.

If some of you still don't know what I'm talkin about, just look up Keeper of the Lost Cities on Google, and then you'll find out all about it.

Basically, it's about this girl named Sophie Foster. She is a telepath, a person who can read minds, and has always felt like an outsider in her human world.

She takes a trip with her class to their local Museum and a stunning boy with teal blue eyes and a newspaper and asks if a picture in the newspaper is her.

The thing is, Sophie has a photographic memory, which means she can remember a lot of things, and she is just naturally very very smart. She's twelve, but is a high school senior.

She was so smart that the press decided to put her school picture in the newspaper. Her parents were not too happy about that. Her parents were the type that didn't like to draw attention, always teaching Sophie how to use self-defense, for if she ever found herself in a situation that someone wanted to kidnap her because they heard about her in the newspaper.

Anyway, she's about to walk away, a little creeped out, but then a group of kindergarteners run by, and broadcast their extremely loud thoughts into Sophie's mind

Sophie can't control whether or not she hears people's thoughts. They just broadcast themselves into her brain. And they are super loud. A constant headache.

Sophia rubs her temples as the kindergarteners run by, trying to make the headache go away, but she looks up, and sees that Fitz is doing the same thing.

He asked her if she's a telepath.

She runs away, obviously scared. And after a whole turn of events he end up revealing to her that she's not human. She is, in fact, Elvin. She is an elf.

He takes her to this whole Hidden World where all the elves live in secret from the humans, explaining that humans silly myths are actually based on some truth, but most of the time humans just make up whatever they want to describe what they can't explain.

In an instant she has to walk away from her life and adapt to completely new one with a hundreds of forces pressing against her.

And that's a little bit of the plot from the first book. I'm not going to do a whole plot lay down because you should go read the books yourself (there are 8 and 1/2), but I do think it's really good book series I'm going to explain a little bit more about it.

So the elves have these things called leaping crystals. Basically, you put the crystal up to the light of the sun, and the sun reflects a beam of light the ground. The Elven mind has a certain level of concentration that humans don't have, and it can hold itself together when being whisked away by a light.

Yep, you heard me right. The elves travel through light. How it goes, is that when you step into a certain reflected beam of light, their bodies break down into molecules and travel with the light molecules.

But this can be kind of dangerous. If you don't hold yourself together right, or don't have enough concentration, some of your molecules can get carried away in the light. If you lose too much of yourself, you can fade away, basically dying.

I don't understand it too well myself, so that's why I'm not going into too much detail, but it seems like a really interesting concept.

Almost every elf in the Elvin world has a special ability. There are several: