The Michael Vey series is at its best okay but at its worst horrid with unfulfilled potential. The 1st book and most of the 2nd was amazing. The suspense of the Elgen and the kidnapping, but after the 2nd the series fell into a trap it could never recover from: greed. The author so obviously did not care for these books and was simply cashing in on the "Teen Superpowers" genre like "Harry Potter," "Percy Jackson" and less to do with powers but similar, "Hunger Games". The 7th book was no different with forced plot and a cliche resolution.