Waverider

I’m gonna say, this was worth the five years. I wanna say Amulet is like a masterpiece. I wish there was just a little more world building, but I felt like all the others things made up for it. Before this book released, I felt like this story wasn’t gonna feel complete, but after reading, it did. The story was going very fast, but considering this was the final book, I can understand why.

Thank you Mr. Kibuishi!

MY SCHOOL'S BOOK FAIR HAS WAVERIDER I'M SO EXITEDDDDDDDDDDDD

Obviously:

--SPOILERS--

And...I'd recommend to skim lol—this has a lot of rambling in it and a lot of speculation.

Here's a buffer image with my complete set! (so no one accidentally gets spoiled)

Overall Thoughts

I think it wraps up Emily's character arc very well, but I feel like it spends too much time with new characters than it does with older characters. I just feel like the two Mountain Giants and the new Guardian Council eat up too much page time. Imo, the final book in a series is for closure—not for introducing more stuff. No hate of course because Kazu Kibuishi has done a remarkable job on this series overall, so I don't want to take away from that.

Ikol

Ikol—the big baddie of the book—being made by Silas is definitely interesting. It also raises a ton, ton, TON of questions. Did the voice ever speak to him? Was he even aware that his creation went rogue? Plus, it's implied that the voice has been speaking to Stonekeeepers for a very long time. Does this imply Silas is even older than he seems? Or is it the void that enables residents there to be able to travel through time, like Emily and Vigo? Or maybe Ikol is just one voice and history has always repeated with another voice.

Ikol's Masters

This part confuses me. I thought it was implied that Ikol's masters were from those ships that the shadows came from. Maybe that was just a red herring from Ikol though. And are they made by Silas too? Another thing—do they actually exist on some plane of existence? Or do they not really exist anywhere because they seem to be more like phantoms when we see them on both Alledia and on Earth. This part confuses me the most, so I'll just let you talk about it in the comments:

Shadows

We're all still confused about Sybrian, right? Probably a continuity issue, but I'd like to try and make it make sense. In the first book, Trellis was possessed by Sybrian—supposedly to do the bidding of the Elf King. (As for how the Elf King was able to prevent getting possessed? Simple, he's dead and only "alive" because of Ikol.) But Ikol was wrong to think Sybrian could actually make Trellis do his bidding. It feeds off of things like anger and fear and, in turn, amplifies them as it seems. So Trellis wasn't 100% himself, but he wasn't under the total control of the Elf King.

Kanalis's Curse

It seems like Leon's curse was either caused by Ikol or the shadows. Not sure how that really makes sense. I would have preferred if the curse wasn't lifted tbh since most of the cursed have already made peace with it, so it felt a bit unnecessary. Although Enzo and Rico's human appearances are pretty much how I'd imagine them at least. On a lighter note, this panel is unintentionally funny due to General Pil not having changed at all:

Ronin

So, a bit of a continuity issue here. Vigo seems to imply Ronin is dead in Book 4, but she's just alive?? I mean, he does say people think she's a ghost, but how did he even find this info?

Gabilan

Well, you know what they say about a picture saying a thousand words:

Trellis

I think his story ended well. Not King of the Elves like everyone expected him to be. But just a natural leader of the Guardian Council. I'm also happy that Riva and he ended up together, although it might have been better to leave his future up to interpretation given all the shipping wars.

Navin

Navin got robbed of a conclusion imo. He should've had a little more focus—he's the deuteragonist for crying out loud. Where's his goodbye with Aly? I mean, it's probably off-screen since we know a bit of time has passed since they defeated the shadows, but I'm a little disappointed we didn't see it.

Return to Alledia?

Honestly, it's almost straight-up confirmed that at least Emily's adventures in Alledia aren't over with all the time manipulation going on. I do hope it means Navin will return once again too because he's been just as impacted by Alledia as Emily. I do, however, think the ending did a good job of closing up the story. A chance to live an ordinary life, but adventure is still lingering in the air—and Emily seems to know it will eventually call again. Maybe not for a long time, but it will happen.

Big Question

Is Silas from Earth or Alledia?

I have great news! I have concluded working on my personal mega project, Lights Arise. I'm now in the final phase of person friends and family reading it before fully released. Book 2, Lights Revival, will most likely not get started until mid summer, and conclude around the same time now next year. I ask that the most eager fans awaiting must bring full patience, as if I want this to be the best product possible, I need time to perfect it. A well crafted diamond with perfect edges and shine must be delt with carefully with a tedious and grueling schedule. In the meantime of the 1st diamond being wrapped up completely, here's how the story for book 2 will be formed.

Love the support, thank you guys/folks so much.

-ThatGuyNamedBronson

For the (roughly) past year, I've been working on a full length written book setting place in the Amulet timeline. I can't give much info as of now, but if you have patience, I promise it'll be worth it. What I can tell you is that this book I've been an unbelievable amount of effort and work into will take place before the events of book one of the main Amulet series. This being my first venture into something like this, I wanted to not give you one book, but a trilogy. If the schedule is correct, finish a book every year, meaning that content will be coming out for the next three years. And here's the best part, it's completely free of charge. I've written this on Google doc only, meaning anyone could read this at anytime. I expect to be complete in the next week or two, seeing how my life goes. I hope that upon closer to release, hype will generate for this project that I just an insane amount of effort into. Thank you all for reading this post, have a great day!

- ThatGuyNamedBronson

Via Kazu Kibuishi's official Twitter page, the book is now completed and but still too early to hit the shelves.

You keep saying dates like March 28 or December 30. These are obviously lies. I know you got them from that answer box on google. It actually gets those dates from Amazon’s listings of other children’s books (ie, Dog Man, Diary of a Wimpy Kid).

Stop and let it remain undetermined. Kazu Kibuishi will announce a date personally or the publisher will say on their website/a press release. Until then, NO, NO NO,!! Please and Thank you.

The issue with a long gap between release dates is that even the author might forget facts from the source material and its been like 4 years or more.

The title for the final book is due on November 2, 2021. Do not give up hope. I repeat, do not give up hope.

....About book 9.

First it said release date: Oct. 27, 2020

Then Dec. 1, 2020

Both of which have come and gone. Will it actually come out at some point, or will it remain "in progress" for another few years?