The Prophet of Yonwood

The Third Book of Ember

By: Jeanne DuPrau

Narrated by: Becky Ann Baker

Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins

Publisher's summary

It's 50 years before the settlement of the city of Ember, and the world is in crisis. War looms on the horizon as 11-year-old Nickie and her aunt travel to the small town of Yonwood, North Carolina. There, one of the town's respected citizens has had a terrible vision of fire and destruction. Her garbled words are taken as prophetic instruction on how to avoid the coming disaster. If only they can be interpreted correctly.

As the people of Yonwood scramble to make sense of the woman's mysterious utterances, Nickie explores the oddities she finds around town - her great-grandfather's peculiar journals and papers, a reclusive neighbor who studies the heavens, a strange boy who is fascinated with snakes - all while keeping an eye out for ways to help the world. Is this vision her chance? Or is it already too late to avoid a devastating war?

In this prequel to the acclaimed The City of Ember and The People of Sparks, Jeanne DuPrau investigates how, in a world that seems out of control, hope and comfort can be found in the strangest of places.

Don't miss Lina and Doon's other adventures in The City of Ember.

©2006 Jeanne DuPrau (P)2006 Random House, Inc. Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Group

It's Okay

This book is the 3d in the series, but actually tells what happened before the city of Ember was built and why. The background noises are a bit distracting making this feel more like a radio show than a book. Other than that it is a good listen.

LOVE IT!!!!

This book had a good starting, it was getting better and better through out the book. Trust me you are going to love the book. If you have read the serious the ending of the book with completely blow your mind.

1/100th of the book is connected to Ember

Only the last few minutes have anything to do with being a prequel to The City of Ember. It’s a great story until you realize that the book is over and you never really got what you wanted.

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Ignore the bad reviews. This book is incredible,

This is an incredible book. Please disregard those who have reviewed it poorly, saying things like “lost connection”, or “don't waste your time with this one…” etc. and give it a shot. The Ember series as a whole is hauntingly beautiful, and the Prophet of Yonwood is no exception. It does an incredible job (for a children's book) discussing and explaining human nature, and especially the human heart in conflict with itself. In full disclosure, the beginning IS a little jarring, since we aren't with our familiar family of characters like Lina or Doon in this one. This is instead a PREQUEL to the other three books, set several hundred years in the past, during our modern era (roughly). I can absolutely understand why people might not like that at first, but I believe Jeanne DuPrau does an amazing job of quickly and efficiently making you fall in love with a fresh cast, each of which has plenty of depth and substance to their character. Becky Ann Baker is a stellar voice actress, especially accompanying all of the excellent sound effects and even musical themes (more audiobooks need to do this kind of stuff). The Prophet of Yonwood is potentially my favourite in the four book series.

The book's references to the rest of the series are subtle, but consistent, and highly effective. It is a wonderful supplementary story to the rest of the City of Ember universe. I feel it is very important for children to read heartbreaking stories, where they can almost experience for themselves what destruction of our beautiful world would be like. Because as the saying goes "you don't know what you have until you lose it". In the City of Ember universe, world leaders destroyed the world through selfishness. They fought over land, resources, power, and religion. They could not find common ground with each other. So the earth was destroyed in many wars and plagues, and the surviving generations were plunged into pre-industrial level societies/lifestyles.

This story is set in the modern era, right before the great disaster, and follows several well rounded child characters. As the pages turn, the doomsday clock counts down, literally, and you can feel the tension rise as the story draws closer to the end of the book and the end of human society as WE know it. The subject matter of a world on the brink of total self-annihilation is heavy for a children’s book. But it does not overwhelm you with details, and there is plenty of light shining through the darkness of the plot. This series was read to me, and re-read by myself as a child. The books and audiobooks were constantly borrowed from our local library. As a grown adult I still go back and listen to and/or re-read this series. It taught me so many moral lessons about human nature, how to process emotions, how to treat others, and how to strive above everything else for GOODNESS in your own and others lives. I hope to read these books to my own children someday. And I think that every child should read this series.

Sound effects!

I started the city of ember when I was a little girl, and now as a young woman I have finished the trilogy. I am even more in love with it than when I first read about the city of ember. The author Really knows how to tie the story all together with this last book. I don’t think I’ve ever felt quite as satisfied with book series’ ending.

Before Ember

This book, like the second book, is basically also about morality. However, this time we are talking about people taking their religious beliefs to extreme and using it to control others. I found this much more interesting to think about than bigotry and immigrant issues. In any case, it's not a great story but it is interesting and has suspense and kinda mystery like the first and last books. Don't expect to find out much about Ember but the author does link this book to the original story in the last book which is neat. I will warn you not to get too excited by the physics stuff though. There isn't anything like "His "Dark Materials" in this book. Probably just as well as I don't think the author could be quite that imaginative.

Great story

I loved how this book ties the other books in this series. I t helped to clear up several things. very well written with interesting plot line and people that you can fall in love with.😀💖😀💖

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Barely an "Ember" book

The reading and the story are good, but I wouldn't consider this much part of the series. It's connected by a very slim thread, and would be good as a standalone book, or a thrilling/dramatic film. If you want to read this, maybe consider reading it first or last.