I got Bionicle Legends #5 yesterday and read it. I was hoping it would top #4. It did.

Excellent for a BIONICLE book. You know that supposed opening scene where two Great Beings place the Ignika underneath Mount Valmai? The book couldn't have started in a better way. I loved how that introduced me as the reader into the present-day scene right where Bionicle Legends #4 left off. Right afterwards, the plot launched into the Piraka's and Toa Inika's journey to the Chamber of Life, which got pretty intense at times and really drew me in. In the midst of all this was the showdown between Axonn and Brutaka that started back in Bionicle Legends #3, as well as the Matoran Resistance's search for the Toa Nuva. I seriously couldn't put this book down until I was finished, and that does not happen with many BIONICLE books (mainly the older ones). I'm really glad that the books just seem to get better and better...and GregF knows how to release which spoilers and which not to on BZP in order to make the book more enjoyable.

Anyway, here are a few things in the book that I'd like to comment on (some spoilers of sorts, but I'm not giving away the plot straight up ):

• The two Great Beings have immense power, yet even they respect the power of the Ignika.
• How the Toa Nuva were imprisoned -- it's a good one.
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  "You think you know horror, Irnakk? Horror is looking into the eyes of the Shadowed One, knowing you are about to die...and then being forced to live. Horror is waking each day to see every part of your body moving on its own, a shifting mass of protodites where once was solid metal and living tissue. Horror is what is in the eyes of your partners when they look at you...and in the cries of your enemies when your swarm engulfs them. Don't talk to me about fear, creature -- I am fear!"
• "Toa don't kill" -- played against the Toa Inika!
• Axonn and Brutaka face off...and Axonn utilizes a hidden power...
• The Toa Nuva meet the Toa Inika...apparently, the Toa Nuva need to "go somewhere."
• A terrible cliffhanger that only 2007 will resolve.