3 friends of Doon set out in a small search party to find him. Doon manages to communicate with Lina, and she goes back to Sparks for help. However, Doon gets captured by the Trogg family, who were living in Ember. The book only contained a few of its pages, and unable to decipher it, they decide to go back to Ember for more clues.
From a roamer, people who roamed across the land, selling things, Lina and Doon get a book that contains more instructions from the Builders. Then there are rumors of someone in the town with a gun, as well as rumors of terrorists. Beeson starts telling everyone to do the most painful things like getting rid of all dogs, on the words of the prophet. Beeson, the “caretaker” for the prophet, asks Nickie to look around for anything that might seem wrong, or if someone is doing something against the prophet's words. Should people do anything wrong, they are put into a handcuff like device. She discovers a prophet, saying weird things. Nickie explores all the weird things around her, and looks into her great-grandfather’s journal. In the 3rd book, a young girl named Nickie goes to the town of Yonwood, but something seems off. This causes the resentment against each other to stop, and Mary declares all of them “People of Sparks” When Ben tries to lower it again, the cannon explodes, causing a fire, and when Doon and Lina join with the people of Sparks, to stop the fire. At the last moment, another one of the town leaders, Mary, kicked up the cannon, so the bullet would shoot over the crowd. That secret weapon was a pre-war cannon, and not knowing what it was, the Emberites charge. One day, when a group enters the town, wanting to cause damage, Ben, one of the leaders of the town, decides to fire upon the Emberites, with his secret weapon.
Someone was deliberately causing rashes and more on the Emberites, and they started to cause riots. At first, everything seems to be going fine, but soon, tensions start to rise between the 2 groups. The 3 leaders decide to allow them to stay for half a year, so they can learn survival skills, so they can live independently. After 3 days of traveling on foot, they come across the village of Sparks. In the second book, The People of Sparks, the story continues, with more than 400 people exiting the nearly depleted City. They throw down a scroll containing the way to exit the City, and someone picks it up. Lina and Doon manage to escape, and they find out that Ember was just a city in a massive cave.
The paper was titled “Instructions for Egress,” and it showed how to escape the City. Lina and Doon try to figure out the clues, and finally, they succeed. One day, Lina finds the safe, opened, but the paper inside was heavily damaged. The second protagonist was a boy named Doon Harrow. That particular Mayor was the many greats grandfather of the first protagonist, Lina Mayfleet. But the safe never got put back where it was supposed to be, and was lost to the people of Ember. The box was set to open, but one of the mayor’s, thought it was the key to staying alive, and so tried his best to open it, but in vain. That was why they left a safe in the hands of the first mayor, who would pass it on to the next mayor when his or her reign was over. Now Ember had been populated for over 200 years, but the builders never intended for the residents to stay there forever. There was a massive apocalypse, and so a group of people decided to make sure that humanity doesn’t become extinct, and so built a city underground, safe from the war ragin above it. The City of Ember is a city, hidden in a massive cave, post-war.
I would rate this series as a whole 4 Stars, it would have been more if not for the 3rd book. I really liked and enjoyed this series when I was reading it, but what I really didn’t like was that the 3rd book was completely unrelated to the other ones. This series is a great one to read, and beginner readers can likely read this without too much trouble. Out of all of them, my personal favorite is The Diamond of Darkhold. PublishDateText mediaType eBook shortDescription Since 2003, readers of all ages have been captivated by Jeanne DuPrau's bestselling dystopian story about a doomed city and the two children determined to escape it.This series was written by Jeanne DuPrau, and contains 4 books, The City of Ember, The People of Sparks, The Prophet of Yonwood, and The Diamond of Darkhold. IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languages