The Forgotten Locket (Hourglass Door, #3)

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The Forgotten Locket (Hourglass Door #3)

by Lisa Mangum (Goodreads Author)

3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 · rating details · 2,516 ratings · 487 reviews

The future is uncertain. The battle to control the past has begun.

Hardcover, 416 pages

Published May 30th 2011 by Shadow Mountain Publishing (first published May 9th 2011)

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Jun 01, 2011 Erica (daydreamer) rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: time-travel, release-in-2011, 2011-reads, best-characters, best-endings, beautiful-writing, brilliant-authors, favorite-romance, incredible, love-love-it, lds-authors, made-me-cry, novels-that-inspire-me, strong-heroines, swoon-worthy-male-love-interests, treasured-keeps, ya, would-love-if-it-were-a-movie

The Forgotten Locket is an incredible, beautiful ending to the Hourglass Door Trilogy. With the ending of The Golden Spiral, I was more than anxious to read the sequel, to see what would happen, and finally have everything come together. Lisa Mangum created an intricate, timeless tale with her story of Dante and Abby. It flows with the breath of time, circling into my mind, taking root, becoming one with me. She created the possible out of the impossible, by using the echoes of time, the chime o...more The Forgotten Locket is an incredible, beautiful ending to the Hourglass Door Trilogy. With the ending of The Golden Spiral, I was more than anxious to read the sequel, to see what would happen, and finally have everything come together. Lisa Mangum created an intricate, timeless tale with her story of Dante and Abby. It flows with the breath of time, circling into my mind, taking root, becoming one with me. She created the possible out of the impossible, by using the echoes of time, the chime of the past and future, Mangum crafted a story that is at once confusing, as it is readily believable.

With this conclusion of Abby and Dante’s story, their lives come full circle, ending where it began, with a promise of a bright future, with their past behind them, but still a part of them. In the beginning of this novel, they travel through time to Dante’s past, and there begins the end, where they fix what has been unraveled, save what has been lost, and ultimately, binding their hearts together in an unbreakable bond. The entire concept of this trilogy, of time travel is so intriguing, and it boggles my mind. But as I felt before when I first read The Hourglass Door, Mangum makes it so easy to believe, and I was left with no confusion or doubts. It’s incredible really, how she does it, and how she ties everything together, taking the reader into the future by going to the past, watching things unfold that will lead to the future events in The Hourglass Door and so on.

When I read her books, I can feel time like Abby does, the flow of it, the in between of the words and moments, can feel their lives intertwining and mixing with time. The rhythmic cadence flows smoothly through Mangums writing as she weaves her tale of darkness and light with characters that just breathe life onto the pages. Each character was built with such finesse, given the time to ease into their true roles that Mangum envisioned. Orlando may be my favorite character. I love his strength and love, I love how Mangum created his story and background that shows us the man he will become in The Hourglass Door, and I loved how the Lady of the Light came to be. It was actually surprising what he felt towards her, but it makes sense that he would. And this created that timeless bond that formed between them, that let them trust each other completely and to honor their vows. And Abby and Dante’s love is beautiful, everlasting, shining though and beyond time where it will never end. True love, that made their whole journey and triumph possible.

The cover of the oval locket doesn’t make sense until the end, and after understanding what it was and what it meant, the story became that much more meaningful to me, putting that last perfect touch to the start of Abby and Dante’s life together. I am blissfully satisfied with the way this story ended. And while their story for us may be over, it will still live inside me showing what love is and what it can accomplish, and how time surrounds us, breathing music and possibilities into us, daring us to seize the time we do have, and make the most of it with what we can.
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Sep 05, 2012 Hollie Robb rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy, fiction-romance, sci-fi

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Ok this needs to be 3.5 stars. She didn't tie in everything. This book was action packed and it was a page turner. It had to be, it had to follow the first two books, or this last book would be boring and it was anything but that.

Yes Abby and Dante saved the world along with family and friends but what happen to Leo, and Valerie? How did they moved on with their lives?

I felt like she changed some things like in the first book The Hourglass Door Dante said that he had a lover and her name was Sop...more

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Jun 07, 2011 Carie rated it 3 of 5 stars

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3.5 for this one. It’s better than the second book, but not as good as the first. I guess it’s a satisfying ending for the series, but I was bothered by a lot here. First, there were lots of convenient bending/breaking of rules with the river/bank that confused me. Also, way too much garbage with Zo and not enough interaction with the past IMO. And, there seemed to be some weird inconsistencies in this series--with weird resolutions (or non-resolutions) in this book (e.g. the Sofia thing was odd...more 3.5 for this one. It’s better than the second book, but not as good as the first. I guess it’s a satisfying ending for the series, but I was bothered by a lot here. First, there were lots of convenient bending/breaking of rules with the river/bank that confused me. Also, way too much garbage with Zo and not enough interaction with the past IMO. And, there seemed to be some weird inconsistencies in this series--with weird resolutions (or non-resolutions) in this book (e.g. the Sofia thing was oddly resolved (see SPOILERS section below)).

I did enjoy the interaction with Dante’s family and there were some incredibly tense “how will they get out of this?” moments. I have always liked the characters--especially Abby, Dante, and Leo, so it was good to have resolution for them. Overall, I’m glad this series is finished and I was generally happy with the ending and some aspects of this book, but I thought the first book had such great potential and I ended up feeling like that potential never came close to what it could have been--which was really disappointing…

**SPOILERS**: Something that REALLY bothered me: I thought there should have been more coordination with Abby and Dante’s wishes/decisions at the end because they came across as seeming kind of selfish to me--like they both chose to possibly ditch the other person to an eternity of loneliness so they could personally be healed (since neither knew the other had made that wish/decision when they did). Yay for true love!! I’m glad it worked out for them, but it seemed strange that they’d do something that would ultimately separate them and make things so ghastly sad for the other person--if they truly loved the other person. Unless somehow Abby knew from looking into the future that it would work out the right way? But, if so, that wasn’t conveyed well at all! Also, just because she knew doesn’t mean Dante did. Weird!!

Also INCREDIBLY irritating: Why didn't Abby have more interaction with the past? Why didn’t she meet Da Vinci?! And, I really wanted more interaction with past Dante--him falling in love with Abby in the past. This would have better explained his interest in her in the first book. (This is the idea I had at the beginning that I’ve hung onto throughout the entire series and I am very disappointed that it didn’t pan out… I really think the whole series would have played out better if it had progressed along these lines instead. )

Regarding Sofia, I really thought she was a past girlfriend from the way she was discussed and I didn’t understand making her a possible child instead. Or was Dante trying to secretly name a future child after an old girlfriend? Yuck! Also, wasn’t a former “lover” mentioned for Dante at the very beginning of these books? Why wouldn’t she have been a factor in a trip to the past? (I always assumed the lover--Sofia--was Abby (following my idea). So, if not her, than who was it??).

And the locket thing seemed really stupid on Dante’s part--particularly when he saw that Abby had lost her memory. Why not say, ”Let me keep that safe for you until you get your memory back” and hold onto it himself? Really dumb!

Finally, I was really confused about the time travel with Abby. How was she able to return to her home time so easily (and without a return door)? I thought that was the big issue in the first book with Dante, Zo, etc. that they couldn’t return to their original time without the return door… Another inconsistency? Or did I miss something…? I really never understood the river/time travel in these books anyway--how they could just fall into the river and end up at an exact and ideal place/time. Sometimes it seemed modifiable--other times not.
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Mar 18, 2012 Maxy rated it 4 of 5 stars

I need this to come out. I miss Abby and Dante and Zo and Valerie and Natalie and Leo and Jason and... and everybody.

I wonder if The Forgotten Locket will also start with "Is this a joke?" as the first sentence. Did anyone else notice that it was the first line for books one and two?

Enough rambling. Here are my predictions, which I will probably update frequently:

- Leo will elaborate on who "Sofia" is.
- Abby will meet Leonardo da Vinci.
- Valerie will get her sanity back.
- I want to say we'll get...more

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May 08, 2012 Beth Pearson rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: teenage-fantasy

I am so glad I liked this book much better then #2!! It didn't wait so long for some action to start and I was interested from the get go. This book answered the questions left hanging from book 1 & 2 and wrapped things up nicely for me.

The details of time travel made more sense to me in this book and I liked the prologue giving another person's point of view.

I really liked that this series was clean and sex wasn't an issue. I found it very romantic and I'd think teenagers could have a new...more

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Jan 10, 2012 Jeanbooknerd rated it 4 of 5 stars

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The Forgotten Locket is the final installment of Lisan Mangum's Hourglass Trilogy. In this stunning world of time travel and romance are the main characters Abby and Dante, along with their many memorable friends who find themselves through the door of time. The adventures they face are skillfully told by Mangum in golden descriptions that maintain your interest from start to finish.

Mangum's graceful style of depicting things fit well into the story. The story is very fast pace as so much things...more

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Nov 29, 2011 Michelle rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy, romance, teen

Abby stepped through the hourglass door at the end of the last book and the story picks right up from there. She and Dante continue to try and save the river of time, which Zo has changed and broken. If they are not successful time will break completely.[return][return]This book just didn’t do it for me. I just wasn’t able to get a cohesive sense of how the story connected. It didn’t seem that there was a strong plot arc, where every piece would eventually connect to form the story. It was more...more

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Sep 23, 2012 Jessica Harrison rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult, reviewed

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“The Forgotten Locket” is the perfect ending to a great series. Author Lisa Mangum avoids falling into the pitfall of following someone else’s success, and in the process, she found success herself. With each book her pacing gets better and her prose more sophisticated.

For a more cohesive story, it’s best if readers read or reread the first two books in this trilogy before picking up “The Forgotten Locket,” although fans of the series will find themselves quickly...more

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Jul 11, 2012 Bonnie rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya-literature-books-13-25

The finale of the Hourglass door trilogy. Dante is safe in the present, but now Abby is stuck in the past, making her way through Italy to try to find her way back home--and safely, because the last remaining member of Zero Hour, Zo, is tailing after her and once again trying to stop her. In the end, it is up to her and Dante to make the final stand against him. Otherwise, time itself will be lost forever.

Definitely a worthwhile ending to this series. It had a good enough pace that I didn't want...more

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Apr 16, 2012 Alicia rated it 4 of 5 stars

Sooo wow. The finale to the Hourglass Door series. I loved it by default, because it concluded the story, it was beautifully written, the relationships and love between all the characters was so pure...

But I couldn't give it a 5th star because SO much of the characters' time was spent in the Bank, and at times it got a little confusing as to who was where, or when.

And I kept thinking "seriously, how much worse can it get for these people?" And Zo would go and do something even-worse than what...more

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Feb 22, 2012 Keilani rated it 2 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Summary: Abby is girlfriend to a guy that has traveled from the past through a door because he was prisoner in his time, and this was his punishment. Abby goes back in time to try to find a cure for dante and stop Zo, a guy trying to stop the bounds of time. She goes back and finds Dante's brother and he helps her around in a new place. She ends up finding Dante on the bank, a place outside of time, along with her friend Valerie. They work together not only to cure Dante from his blindness, but...more

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Feb 13, 2012 Mary rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book has made me realize that I'm either in a reading slump or maybe getting pickier about the books I read. I'm also 9 months pregnant so my mind is probably a little more sensitive than normal.

On the positive side, these books were a great fictional read. At first I was worried it was going to turn into a "twilight-esce" book. I was happy to discover it was not about vampires. I was intrigued to discover it was about time travel. It is another young adult fiction series, which sometimes...more

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Nov 29, 2011 Sarah rated it 1 of 5 stars

This isn't really a review because I just don't have the energy to think about and articulate everything that was wrong with this book. Usually I devour books like this in one sitting, but I had to read this book over the course of a couple weeks because I JUST COULDN'T TAKE ANYMORE... You know the feeling.

Anywho~

Since I don't want to write a full review of this book, instead I will list the shelves I am tempted to create on my account just so I can put this book on them:

shelf name: Holy Plothol...more

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Nov 20, 2011 Kate Norton rated it 1 of 5 stars

I kept reading this because I had read the first two and wanted to see how it resolved... but it was just like a series of superfluous conflicts that were all resolved in ridiculous ways. Like, "There is this huuuuge problem! The world is going to end. How about I pull an illogical answer out of thin air and try it? Oh, wow! It worked! Because I'm SPECIAL!" Lather, rinse, repeat. And seriously, this is the end of the book: "I made a wish, and I knew in my core it would come true. So I wished tha...more

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Oct 24, 2011 07JessicaS rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book is the third in the Hourglass Door series. Abby has to travel back in time to close the loop but faces many struggles on the way. When she gets there she bumps in to Orlando who is Dante's brother who is now the older Leo. He helps her find her way around old Italy until she finds Dante and sadly Zo. Zo was responsible for a lot of her trouble well she was trying to close the loop of time. He messed with her mind and made her forget everything and stole the locket Deante had given her...more This book is the third in the Hourglass Door series. Abby has to travel back in time to close the loop but faces many struggles on the way. When she gets there she bumps in to Orlando who is Dante's brother who is now the older Leo. He helps her find her way around old Italy until she finds Dante and sadly Zo. Zo was responsible for a lot of her trouble well she was trying to close the loop of time. He messed with her mind and made her forget everything and stole the locket Deante had given her a while ago that was linked to Dante's heart. When Abby finally found Dante he was able to heal her mind but he still was injured form when Zo took a knife to Dante's eyes. Dante, Abby, Orlando, and Valerie who is Abby's best friend who went crazy because Zo meant with her mind, go through a lot of struggles trying to defeat Zo. They went trough what was pretty much a war Zo did everything he can to stop them from closing up the loop because Zo wants to destroy the river. Because of Zo, Dante and Abby go through a lot of struggles they weren't supposed to. For example Dante had a lot of explaining to do to his parents. Another thing that happened was Abby learned how to explore her power to explore the language of time. With Abby's new found power there was a lot of fixing to do on the river. Zo in the other two books had messed up the river of time pretty bad and did evern more damage to it in this new book. Even with all the hard work in this book over trying to close the loop there was still all the romance in the book as in the other two. Abby and Dante fall further in love as they have to fight to help save the bank against Zo. Dante goes through a lot of pain because of Zo but Abby was always there to help heal him. This book was very good and you are going to have to read it to figure out if they succeed in there journey to destroy Zo and close the loop of time to save the bank and river.

I rated this book 4 1/2 stars because after reading this whole series and this is definitely the most romantic and has the most action in it and made you want to keep reading for days. However, I have read better books.

I would recommend this book to anyone who loves a good romantic book that still has some action in it. It has a lot of Romance between Dante and Abby but this book has a lot more action than the other ones but because it is in a series I say you read them all. The whole series is amazing and they are very good at bringing you and not letting you go until you are done. I think that most anyone who likes romance books will love the entire series.(less)

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Aug 01, 2011 Cydnie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: supernatural, series, romance

Reading the final book of this series was like going on a long awaited vacation - you plan for it, you wait, you enjoy every minute it, and then when it's almost over [if you're like me...] you start to get a little sad and a bit depressed because it's coming to an end! I almost didn't want to finish the last few chapters because I didn't want it to be done - yeah, so I'm a dork!

I have enjoyed the development of the story over the course of the three books. One of my favorite characters is still...more

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Jun 17, 2011 Michelle rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Sep 30, 2011 Kari rated it 2 of 5 stars

I'm so relieved this series is over! I pushed through this last one and was just saddened by so much wasted potential. The author really has a way of illustration so you feel like you are there and you can vividly see the imagery in your head. Her writing can be beautiful. Also her particular concept of a river of time and traveling to the bank of the river was new and original to me. I felt she really could go far.

However, I was left frustrated by too many connections she made without explanati...more

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Apr 25, 2012 Erin rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book was not as good as the previous two, though I still enjoyed it. I really feel like this book was pretty repetitive. Every time something good was about to happen, Zo would show up and ruin everything. This was not only repetitive, but very frustrating. It's kind of like watching a superhero movie where the hero has to fight some larger, evil version of himself and ends up getting the stuffing knocked out of him. It's hard to cheer for the underdog when they're constantly getting crushe...more

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Jul 24, 2011 Shelby rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: good-fluff, ebooks, guy-candy, pnr-humans-n-mages

For the record, I'm rating this a 3.8. Read below to see why.

As the last of the Hourglass trilogy, The Forgotten Locket does much to satisfy the readers as well as it can. It starts immediately after Abby steps through the door in The Golden Spiral. She lands in Italy right at the moment where Orlando steps onto the bank the very first time. Abby, Orlando/Leo, Dante, and Valerie all come together in a whirlwind of adventure to stop Zo, the psychopath musician who wants to control time or destro...more For the record, I'm rating this a 3.8. Read below to see why.

As the last of the Hourglass trilogy, The Forgotten Locket does much to satisfy the readers as well as it can. It starts immediately after Abby steps through the door in The Golden Spiral. She lands in Italy right at the moment where Orlando steps onto the bank the very first time. Abby, Orlando/Leo, Dante, and Valerie all come together in a whirlwind of adventure to stop Zo, the psychopath musician who wants to control time or destroy it.

Long story short, I feel like The Forgotten Locket wasn't as good as the Golden Spiral, and I think I know why. In The Golden Spiral, I was amazed and glad to see Mangum develop Abby's character into a brave protagonist. She wasn't a weak rag doll who cried 25/8 in the absence of her supernatural boyfriend. However, in this book, Dante is back. Despite how much I love toe-curling romantic scenes (clean but still sweet) between the two, I'd gotten used to reading Abby the solo protagonist. I actually prefer it that way. Also, to be nitpicky, (view spoiler). Actually, the end was a little difficult to swallow, but I think that was just me being a fangirl. I think the ending was, in a way, satisfying to end this trilogy but also bittersweet. (view spoiler)

There were good things to mention. The Forgotten Locket was better than The Hourglass Door but not as good as to warrant a 4 star rating. I liked the setting here. For the most part, the entire book was placed in Italy during the time of beautiful paintings, courtly romances, and Leonardo da Vinci. I loved the development of Orlando, who eventually becomes Leo five hundred years later. We finally learn the secret behind his enigmatic behavior in the present and why he calls Abby his "lady of the light." Again, I loved to see how Mangum fused all the clues dropped by Leo in The Hourglass Door and brought them forward into this book. We also got a lot more of the bank and the door and how everything was going to pieces. Zo was the perfect villain; you wanted to shoot his face every time he was in the picture, but you also found his parts in the book to be the most interesting, where the most action and adventure takes place. I still have a hard time imagining the bank and the river, but I think that's just my tendency to gloss over important details.

Overall, it was a nice ending to the trilogy. It had a perfect balance of those sweet scenes between Dante and Abby and the heated action involving Zo and the river. But something just seemed a little off to me. I was left a little disappointed by the end. However, the series itself, IMO, is still an underrated fantasy series. If anything, I would recommend it for a person not looking to seriously commit to a series but still wants to be entertained. (less)

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Aug 27, 2011 Zaira rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: romance, science-fiction, adventure

I was very disappointed in this book. My expectations were very high and they weren't met. My fault, I know, but her first two books were amazing! This one had too much detail, not enough action and the romance didn't feel real. It was boring. There was a few things I liked about it though, like Valerie and Zo, for instance. They are such great characters! I also liked the ending, it was very well written!

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Apr 16, 2012 Lisa rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: adventure, fantasy, young-adult, romance

Abby has gone through the hourglass door so that she can help repair the damage that Zo has done to the river of time. If she is not able to close the loop that was thrown out of whack, time will continue to unravel. This seems like it won't be too hard, but unfortunately, Zo discovers her plans and follows her back 500 years to the time when Dante entered the door for the first time. He uses all his powers to try and ruin everything, and try and get Abby to be his in the bargain.

I thought the f...more

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Nov 22, 2011 Gerie rated it 3 of 5 stars

SPOILER . . . Even though I liked the book . . . there were several irritating parts to it.
The constant reference to how confusing time can be - yeah, we get it, you are in multiple places at once. If we can follow the story of several characters being doubled up, why can't they just follow their own?
The fact that even though they looked down the river (Dante's gift??) . . . they couldn't see what Zo saw? To be able to plan ahead like he did?
And the ever obvious ... If Zo could go back in tim...more

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Jun 10, 2011 Tristi rated it 5 of 5 stars

Lisa Mangum burst onto the young adult contemporary fantasy scene like a firework with the release of The Hourglass Door, and continued to burn brightly through The Golden Spiral. With The Forgotten Locket, she puts on an entire fireworks show, dazzling the reader with burst after burst of excitement and drama until the story (and the trilogy) come to a very satisfying conclusion.

Whoa, I’m starting to sound like Bruno Tonioli. Sorry about that.

My Synopsis: Abby’s family no longer exists in her r...more

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Jul 01, 2011 Kamilla rated it 3 of 5 stars

I'm not even sure how I feel about this book. I read it because I was interested in seeing how it all panned out and in hopes that things made sense to me at the end. It really didn't. There is all this talk about closing the loop and preserving time but in the end they actually had to do this far flung thing to do it that made no sense.
I still don't understand how the bank/river work and how exactly they get to and from these places and why they can't just jump into the river at all and travel...more

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Dec 08, 2011 Bonnie rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: wishlist

I really enjoyed reading this series. It's been more than a month since reading it and I still find myself thinking about it from time to time. I think I like it more since time has passed than I did even while reading...weird? (You know a book or series is good if you still think about it well after finishing, agree?) Great read!

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Jul 23, 2011 Kelly Ha rated it 5 of 5 stars

OMFG. GAHHHHHHHH THE FORGOTTEN LOCKET BY LISA MANGUM WAS SO FING GOODDDDDD ive been obsessed with it.... i read this book in one day cuz i literally could not put down the book. everytime i wanted to go do something, i just couldnt stop reading cuz it was just intense chapter by chapter... i read the hour glass door 4 times (more than twilight which is pretty suprising) the golden spiral 2 times cuz im currently re reading it to read the forgotten locket another itme.. maybe its just me but the...more

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Jul 14, 2011 Michelle Griep rated it 5 of 5 stars

Oh. My. Goodness. After waiting for an entire year for this final installment to hit the presses, after suffering extreme Dante withdrawal symptoms during that eternity, and after finally clutching this book in my hot little hands, savoring each word like mouthfuls of dark chocolate, I think I can distill my experience into one simple comment…

Aaaahhhhh.

The Forgotten Locket is that satisfying. I took my time marveling over every nuance, every turn of phrase, feeling saturated, content—and flippin...more

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Sep 06, 2011 Tanya rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: youth-fiction, fantasy

Lisa's a wonderful writer. She can truly weave magic with words and, in many places both in this concluding volume and "The Golden Spiral" before, I enjoyed the poetry of her prose.

However, I found the plot dragging in this volume, as well as in "The Golden Spiral," and sensed that she was grabbing to remain in control of the whole time travel element. I would be very surprised if she outlined this whole series in advance, because it really began to seem as if she was making it up as she went a...more

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Sep 08, 2011 Ruth rated it 3 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I gave this book three stars, not because it wasn't great, but because I began to have a seriously problem with the unraveling and turning of the plotline. Personal taste, totally subjective, but again, I am a logically-driven person. If it's too far away from anything resembling logic (this was) then I have trouble thoroughly enjoying it. I sincerely hope Mangum will write something a *little* more mainstream next. I hope she stays in fantasy as she is fabulous, but this book, well, I felt like...more I gave this book three stars, not because it wasn't great, but because I began to have a seriously problem with the unraveling and turning of the plotline. Personal taste, totally subjective, but again, I am a logically-driven person. If it's too far away from anything resembling logic (this was) then I have trouble thoroughly enjoying it. I sincerely hope Mangum will write something a *little* more mainstream next. I hope she stays in fantasy as she is fabulous, but this book, well, I felt like the first 3/4 of the setting was in the same room in the Apothecary shop. It felt so stagnant, even though plenty happened. I think the whole story was extremely ambitious for a first-time writer and I applaud her efforts.

The other thing that put a huge damper on my ability to enjoy this book, was the way she resolved it in the end. I'm sorry, but I just couldn't appreciate the "all-magical mysterious time power" of Abby's that magically fixed everything in the end. There are about 100 other ways that I could have thought to fix the story that didn't involve inventing something pinch-hit-like at the end. To name a few:
1. DO SOMETHING TO ZO'S PAST. If he can kill Dante back in time, why can't Abby do the same to Zo's past? If not she herself, have DANTE do it!? So silly. This was the #1 obvious choice on fixing the timeline. But whatever.
2. PREVENT ZO GOING THROUGH THE DOOR THE SECOND TIME. This was still never EVER logically explained away. Why it was better to have him GO through the door. I mean, come on, if you're going to write a time book, what is the point of a time travel story if you CAN'T go back in time and change anything. Change Dante getting blinded, Change V getting killed by Zo... THERE'S SO MUCH to fix and change that she never even threw that in as a possibility. Yes they went back in time, but they changed things by accident and as the opportunity arose--not due to intention.

So.. inevitably, she painted her plot into a corner and the only way out was Abby's magical powers. Uh huh. I can't express enough my disappointment. I really wish she would have explained better how one determines WHEN in time one travels when going through the door. It was implied that this was done through the Roman Numeral tattoos on the wrists. But Abby never had those tattoos. Perhaps that was why she went to the beginning of when the door was built, but she didn't exactly, she only went as far back as when Orlando RETURNED through the door--how he did that we never found out either.

In the end, I found this a very engaging, interesting read, but the 2nd two books were so irritating to me that I don't intend to read them again. I think I will quite enjoy reading Book 1 again now that I know the entire story. Extremely creative no doubt, but time travel suggests logical puzzles that CAN'T be solved. I should've known better.

Oh yeah.. and the title was totally silly. Has absolutely nothing to do with the mass of the book. A better title would've been something like "Fixing the River" or "Murky River" or "The Unraveling Bank" or "Closing the Loop." (less)

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