Name: The Last Council
ISBN: 9780545208871

Kazu Kibuishi

After chasing the monster that kidnapped their mother, Emily and Navin find themselves in a magical world of man-eating demons and shadowy enemies, where they must learn to control an amulet given to them by their grandfather.

The Last Council

Sarah Sammis

In Amulet 4: The Last Council by Kazu Kibuishi, Emily, friends and family arrive at Cielis, hopeful that the Sky Council will be able to help. Before that can happen, though, Emily must prove her worth to them.

Cielis is very much like the Emerald City, albeit one that has fallen on hard times. It's not just an ineffective one — the Wizard — stepping in for a missing leader — Ozma. Like Chip in This Perfect Day (link to review), Emily and friends have been deceived. Most of The Last Council, then, is the chronicle of Emily and the others discovering the truth in their own way.

As with previous volumes, Kibuishi's luscious artwork is a delight. He's able to convey so much of the story through the pictures, that I will often skim ahead just looking at the pictures. Then I go back and read the speech bubbles. The Amulet series remains at the top of my list of favorite middle grade graphic novels.

Jordan Bowman

DNF - Just couldn't get through this series. It all feels like a big list of not-even-hidden tropes.

Emelie

Second Read 26-28/4-18

First Read 5/12-16: It's getting pretty intense!

Ley Stanton

First book completed for Dewey's 24-Hour Read-a-Thon April 2015.

As seen on Caity Reads.

Cielis is found. However, this city is not everything the group thought it would be. Things don’t go as planned and Emily is thrown into a competition against other Stonekeepers, all fighting for a spot on the council. This fourth installment added some new things that I am very excited to see in the future. I want to know how these things are going to develop and push things forward. Our group of heroes is split up for a good portion of this book and I feel that caused it to have a little lack of progression. However, it wasn’t huge and didn’t take anything away from the story for me. It was just as fantastic as the previous three books. The artwork is just as beautiful as ever, and I’m absolutely in love with the full picture pages.

Lisa Beasley

I really enjoyed this volume, we got movement in the plot and some good character development. The artwork really is stunnng and I am really liking the escapism of the story.

Kazu Kibuishi's thrilling, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling series continues! Emily and her friends think they'll find the help they need in Cielis, but something isn't right. Streets that were once busy are deserted, and the townspeople who are left live in crippling fear. Emily is escorted to the Academy where she's expected to compete for a spot on the Guardian Council, the most powerful Stonekeepers. But as the number of competitors gets smaller and smaller, a terrible secret is slowly uncovered--a secret that, if left buried, means certain destruction of everything Emily fights for.