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2.9 AVERAGE
2.9 AVERAGE
Unfortunately I will not be finishing this book. The story building was subpar and I honestly didn't know what was happening most of the time. I got a quarter of the way through this book and I was bored out of my mind. The false advertising for this book really didn't help.
-I received book for review from NetGalley.
-I received book for review from NetGalley.
**UPDATE** Originally Posted on Londiniumgirlbooks
This book was an alright read, one of those that’s intriguing, but not in a ‘I can’t function until I’ve read this book in its entirety’ way. The world is original enough, most of the characters are interesting (Shinobu is the only one I actually liked. Quin was alright at times but nearly always annoying), and the story was okay-ish. I did find myself not really caring about the major plot. I honestly just read to see how the story played out for Shinobu because I had a strong suspicion about his story-line (and I was right-the like three pages I really liked were almost worth reading the entire book for).
This story needed to explain the world a little more, because half the time I was reading it, I kept picturing the althame (stone dagger thing everyone wants; I don’t care to look up the correct spelling) as Lyra’s golden compass from Pullman’s His Dark Materials, as they seem to have the same function. I wasn’t really sure what to imagine. In HDM, it’s not so much that everyone wants the golden compass (there’s another technical name for it that also starts with an A but it’s been years since I read that series so I forget what it’s really called) it’s that everyone wants it and Lyra too, because like no one else can work the son of a bitch. In Seeker, there’s like fourteen people that know how to work it, but only Quin can teach the one person that reallllllllly wants to know how to work it because of their…gasp…past together, so it can only be Quin. Whatever, the story was kind of stupid, now that I think about it.
This is unimportant to the story(or is it?!), but there’s a freaking flying ship-home that circles London, but never is it mentioned what this feat of engineering genius runs off of fuel wise. Like is it solar-powered? Magic powered? Does it feed off of confusion from readers? I need to know because if it’s gas-powered and has to eventually stop to refuel, the last like twenty pages of the book are ridiculous *Sort of SPOILER—–> because they could have waited to blow the f-ing thing up when the captain (whoever) was standing outside the huge-ass ship, parked in a BP parking lot, fueling it up, tapping his foot and wondering if he could still apply for a job on a solar-powered airship, instead of them jumping off a building and shooting fireworks at it. *End of sort of SPOILER*.
There’s also an instance were Shinobu thinks of his Japanese mother as a doll beside his father, which is a racial cliche that I don’t feel qualified to discuss, but have noted in the past that it has offended folks(rightfully so). Shinobu is also called a tall Asian several times…so yeah.
In all, the book was enjoyable. It’s not my favorite. It doesn't rank in the top anything of fantasy YA novels/series, but if you need a distraction that doesn't take a whole lot of concentration, I’d recommend it( mainly cause I really liked Shinobu).
There’s a sequel coming out next year called, Traveler. Might check it out, might not.
This book was an alright read, one of those that’s intriguing, but not in a ‘I can’t function until I’ve read this book in its entirety’ way. The world is original enough, most of the characters are interesting (Shinobu is the only one I actually liked. Quin was alright at times but nearly always annoying), and the story was okay-ish. I did find myself not really caring about the major plot. I honestly just read to see how the story played out for Shinobu because I had a strong suspicion about his story-line (and I was right-the like three pages I really liked were almost worth reading the entire book for).
This story needed to explain the world a little more, because half the time I was reading it, I kept picturing the althame (stone dagger thing everyone wants; I don’t care to look up the correct spelling) as Lyra’s golden compass from Pullman’s His Dark Materials, as they seem to have the same function. I wasn’t really sure what to imagine. In HDM, it’s not so much that everyone wants the golden compass (there’s another technical name for it that also starts with an A but it’s been years since I read that series so I forget what it’s really called) it’s that everyone wants it and Lyra too, because like no one else can work the son of a bitch. In Seeker, there’s like fourteen people that know how to work it, but only Quin can teach the one person that reallllllllly wants to know how to work it because of their…gasp…past together, so it can only be Quin. Whatever, the story was kind of stupid, now that I think about it.
This is unimportant to the story(or is it?!), but there’s a freaking flying ship-home that circles London, but never is it mentioned what this feat of engineering genius runs off of fuel wise. Like is it solar-powered? Magic powered? Does it feed off of confusion from readers? I need to know because if it’s gas-powered and has to eventually stop to refuel, the last like twenty pages of the book are ridiculous *Sort of SPOILER—–> because they could have waited to blow the f-ing thing up when the captain (whoever) was standing outside the huge-ass ship, parked in a BP parking lot, fueling it up, tapping his foot and wondering if he could still apply for a job on a solar-powered airship, instead of them jumping off a building and shooting fireworks at it. *End of sort of SPOILER*.
There’s also an instance were Shinobu thinks of his Japanese mother as a doll beside his father, which is a racial cliche that I don’t feel qualified to discuss, but have noted in the past that it has offended folks(rightfully so). Shinobu is also called a tall Asian several times…so yeah.
In all, the book was enjoyable. It’s not my favorite. It doesn't rank in the top anything of fantasy YA novels/series, but if you need a distraction that doesn't take a whole lot of concentration, I’d recommend it( mainly cause I really liked Shinobu).
There’s a sequel coming out next year called, Traveler. Might check it out, might not.
This book was hard for me to get through. Had a difficult time figuring out what time frame the book was taking place in. As for the characters, I didn't fall in love with them, and wasn't really rooting for them until much later in the book. I wanted to like it and thought the premise was good, just didn't keep my interest. The characters were confusing and the whole point of finding out what these seekers do was difficult to figure out. Anyway, it was a fine read, not sure if I'll stay up to date on this series yet.
Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC!
Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC!
Initial reaction: I have a feeling I'm being very (scratch that: EXTREMELY) generous with this rating. At a certain point, in the second half of the book, the book started flowing more smoothly and once I got into it, I couldn't stop reading. But that was over 70% into the novel, and that vexed me to no end. That was too long, and half of the questions I had about the (read: very, VERY vague) worldbuilding and realm this book established weren't even halfway answered. Timelines and style of dialogues kept jumping every which way but loose, and the characters were thinly drawn up to a certain point. It was terribly convoluted, more than it had to be, and I have a feeling that people with less patience than I will not see this book through until the end. It's a shame, because there are some good moments to be had here, even if it's peppered with really problematic stuff (which made me cringe).
Game of Thrones meets Hunger Games, though, this is not. High fantasy this is definitely not. Terribly false advertising and more of a measure that people need to stop making high expectation comparisons like this when they don't even halfway meet the book's actual establishment. I will actually tell you what this book is about when I have the chance to write the full review.
But it was something of a decent read in its better moments. I just hope the next book isn't so darned hard to get through.
Full review:
So this reflection took more than a day for me to think about writing a review about. More like a week (two weeks?) Oy vey.
Dayton's novel has to be one of the most convoluted written debuts of a YA fantasy novel I've ever read. I'm not going to say it didn't have some genuine moments of interest for me, but they were far and few between, not to mention the read was a long slog that frequently frustrated me. (I can only imagine what it might be like for a teenager picking up this book).
If a novel can't even answer the basic thematic of/question posed by its title, there's a SERIOUS problem there. The question posed by this novel in particular: What is a Seeker? That simple. You would be surprised by how long it actually takes to get to something close to resembling a true answer for that. Even then, the question isn't really addressed.
The story revolves (primarily) around three trainees: Quin, Shinobu, and John. These three are in training to become "Seekers." The very vague definition given is that Seekers are meant to defend those who are weak. It's classified as a very honorable position. That I could work with because at least there's a promise to develop what those roles are. Quin and Shinobu are on their respective track to fulfilling this role, training with swords and magic in the midst of Scotland. John is considered the elder and one who will not fulfill the role he's supposed to play because of his age and distractions. Yet Quin and John are in a secret (well...not so secret) relationship, and Shinobu is the cousin (who's claimed to not really be that close) that pines for Quin in this proposed love triangle.
The blatant love triangle angle made me wince because of its implications, but I figured I'd follow the read to see where it lead. I think the very first sign of problems I had with the novel happened when Shinobu and Quin discover the "truth" about what their Seeker role is supposed to entail.
Apparently they are aware of some grave situation attached to their role that's supposed to be earth shattering, mind blowing, and completely making them question everything they know about the people around them. Unfortunately, the reader is never made aware of what this horrible thing is.
I kept reading this actively thinking: "I'm missing something huge here, what happened?" Even hoped I wasn't the only person who felt like chunks of the story were missing.
It then becomes this odd venture of students turning against their teacher/trainer (Briac, who is Quin's father) and then becoming separated by time and place for different reasons: Quin, Shinobu and John all go different paths. My understanding of the story (even though this wasn't made all that clear) was that Seekers had the ability to wield a weapon called an athame, and that there were several different types of athame throughout the world. John became preoccupied with wanting to learn how to wield it and spent all this time trying to find Quin in order for her to show him how to use it (which, dude, really? And while he doesn't want to use force and urges people not to hurt her, somehow he has people trying to find her and attacking her in order to restrain her? And he claims he loves her in a really creepy way? In case it isn't clear, I hated John's character. At least what little flesh was there to pinch of him.)
Quin wants nothing to do with her respective role of wielding the athame. During a fallout and escape in which she's wounded, she loses her memory and it isn't until she finds herself in the crosshairs of people trying to find and use her for her abilities that she begins to put he pieces together and stand up and fight/use what abilities she has. Except it feels hollow, because you're not really 100% certain what she's fighting for or against.
Shinobu was the character I liked the most in this novel because 1. he was humored well in some spaces of the novel and 2. He had a more palpable backstory (between hearing the story about his conflicts with family and his feelings of helplessness, I was like - okay, I can identify with him a little, but the development comes so late in the novel, I don't know if many people will latch on to him. Plus there's the whole odd insinuation that he really likes Quin even though they're supposed to be related down the line...even a really distant line as cousins? It's weird. Just weird.)
There's a fourth character in this novel named Maud who has a destiny to fulfill herself, something like a soothsayer or some concious being that has to do with the Seeker roles, but it's so threadbare that I had a hard time connecting exactly what her role was to the overarching conflict.
The story has some decent action sequences and moments of peril. I will give it that much. It worked much better in the latter part of the novel than it did in the first. But it's hard to connect to the characters when their roles are so thin in definition (even to the point where by the end of the novel, a Seeker's role is still quite undefined for overarching scope).
I won't spoil the rest of the events of the novel for anyone who wants to read it, but I am going to summarize what I think the biggest problems with this novel were - and it was progressive throughout the entire novel despite harrowing action sequences and moments where the characters clashed and confronted each other.
This book did not have a strong central sense of time, place, or conflict. At all.
You would think this story was high fantasy with the amount of sword training and prophecy recitations within it, but the moment guns came into the weaponry for fighting, I became really confused (so what was the point of those characters training with swords and daggers again?)
You would think this story took place (at first) in a place in the past, but when televisions among other technologies are mentioned, that also threw the time measure out the window. Is this some sort of alternate dimension? When is this taking place? This is never really answered through the novel at all. Even if it's a dimension that's parallel and unlike our own, the development of this world is so threadbare that it's hard to put your foot in it and become immersed. Mostly because it's very convoluted and confusing for descriptors.
You would think this novel would have a very cultural backdrop given that it takes place in areas like Scotland and Hong Kong, but the development there is threadbare too. Some characters who had accents later didn't have them, the environment was thinly drawn - there was very little tying it together for place or even transitions from place to place. I think the environment of Hong Kong was a little more palpable than the drawing of Scotland in the beginning, but my biggest question was HOW DID THEY GET THERE? There were so many gaps of time span that were unexplained or unvetted that it really didn't do a good job of sequencing with the story.
This story sequenced itself through four different characters in a third-person omniscent perspective. I found that I moved through the POVs fine, but the vague descriptors and establishment of the characters made it hard to connect, so the cast was never really defined enough to make their perspectives pop more. I could very well see people getting lost in this novel because of the POV switches, though, and for the way it was done.
And we're not even going to talk about the comparison to Hunger Games and Game of Thrones. There's none to be had, I think the story had interesting threads, but there was really no direction or linking that would suggest it was anything like the aforementioned stories.
In other words, this book had a lot of misdirection and false advertisement. It had some great ideas, but felt like they needed to be vetted out and smoothed for transition. It's a novel with a lot of bark, but not a whole lot of bite.
I'll give the sequel a chance, but it's gotta step it up from this point. Because what I saw here were some interesting moments that never had any measure of direction or structure to help them, and that had me in the role of playing "Seeker" for answers that were never provided than following the journeys of the Seekers.
Overall score: 2.5/5 stars
Note: I received this as an ARC from NetGalley, from the publisher Random House Delacorte BFYR.
Game of Thrones meets Hunger Games, though, this is not. High fantasy this is definitely not. Terribly false advertising and more of a measure that people need to stop making high expectation comparisons like this when they don't even halfway meet the book's actual establishment. I will actually tell you what this book is about when I have the chance to write the full review.
But it was something of a decent read in its better moments. I just hope the next book isn't so darned hard to get through.
Full review:
So this reflection took more than a day for me to think about writing a review about. More like a week (two weeks?) Oy vey.
Dayton's novel has to be one of the most convoluted written debuts of a YA fantasy novel I've ever read. I'm not going to say it didn't have some genuine moments of interest for me, but they were far and few between, not to mention the read was a long slog that frequently frustrated me. (I can only imagine what it might be like for a teenager picking up this book).
If a novel can't even answer the basic thematic of/question posed by its title, there's a SERIOUS problem there. The question posed by this novel in particular: What is a Seeker? That simple. You would be surprised by how long it actually takes to get to something close to resembling a true answer for that. Even then, the question isn't really addressed.
The story revolves (primarily) around three trainees: Quin, Shinobu, and John. These three are in training to become "Seekers." The very vague definition given is that Seekers are meant to defend those who are weak. It's classified as a very honorable position. That I could work with because at least there's a promise to develop what those roles are. Quin and Shinobu are on their respective track to fulfilling this role, training with swords and magic in the midst of Scotland. John is considered the elder and one who will not fulfill the role he's supposed to play because of his age and distractions. Yet Quin and John are in a secret (well...not so secret) relationship, and Shinobu is the cousin (who's claimed to not really be that close) that pines for Quin in this proposed love triangle.
The blatant love triangle angle made me wince because of its implications, but I figured I'd follow the read to see where it lead. I think the very first sign of problems I had with the novel happened when Shinobu and Quin discover the "truth" about what their Seeker role is supposed to entail.
Apparently they are aware of some grave situation attached to their role that's supposed to be earth shattering, mind blowing, and completely making them question everything they know about the people around them. Unfortunately, the reader is never made aware of what this horrible thing is.
I kept reading this actively thinking: "I'm missing something huge here, what happened?" Even hoped I wasn't the only person who felt like chunks of the story were missing.
It then becomes this odd venture of students turning against their teacher/trainer (Briac, who is Quin's father) and then becoming separated by time and place for different reasons: Quin, Shinobu and John all go different paths. My understanding of the story (even though this wasn't made all that clear) was that Seekers had the ability to wield a weapon called an athame, and that there were several different types of athame throughout the world. John became preoccupied with wanting to learn how to wield it and spent all this time trying to find Quin in order for her to show him how to use it (which, dude, really? And while he doesn't want to use force and urges people not to hurt her, somehow he has people trying to find her and attacking her in order to restrain her? And he claims he loves her in a really creepy way? In case it isn't clear, I hated John's character. At least what little flesh was there to pinch of him.)
Quin wants nothing to do with her respective role of wielding the athame. During a fallout and escape in which she's wounded, she loses her memory and it isn't until she finds herself in the crosshairs of people trying to find and use her for her abilities that she begins to put he pieces together and stand up and fight/use what abilities she has. Except it feels hollow, because you're not really 100% certain what she's fighting for or against.
Shinobu was the character I liked the most in this novel because 1. he was humored well in some spaces of the novel and 2. He had a more palpable backstory (between hearing the story about his conflicts with family and his feelings of helplessness, I was like - okay, I can identify with him a little, but the development comes so late in the novel, I don't know if many people will latch on to him. Plus there's the whole odd insinuation that he really likes Quin even though they're supposed to be related down the line...even a really distant line as cousins? It's weird. Just weird.)
There's a fourth character in this novel named Maud who has a destiny to fulfill herself, something like a soothsayer or some concious being that has to do with the Seeker roles, but it's so threadbare that I had a hard time connecting exactly what her role was to the overarching conflict.
The story has some decent action sequences and moments of peril. I will give it that much. It worked much better in the latter part of the novel than it did in the first. But it's hard to connect to the characters when their roles are so thin in definition (even to the point where by the end of the novel, a Seeker's role is still quite undefined for overarching scope).
I won't spoil the rest of the events of the novel for anyone who wants to read it, but I am going to summarize what I think the biggest problems with this novel were - and it was progressive throughout the entire novel despite harrowing action sequences and moments where the characters clashed and confronted each other.
This book did not have a strong central sense of time, place, or conflict. At all.
You would think this story was high fantasy with the amount of sword training and prophecy recitations within it, but the moment guns came into the weaponry for fighting, I became really confused (so what was the point of those characters training with swords and daggers again?)
You would think this story took place (at first) in a place in the past, but when televisions among other technologies are mentioned, that also threw the time measure out the window. Is this some sort of alternate dimension? When is this taking place? This is never really answered through the novel at all. Even if it's a dimension that's parallel and unlike our own, the development of this world is so threadbare that it's hard to put your foot in it and become immersed. Mostly because it's very convoluted and confusing for descriptors.
You would think this novel would have a very cultural backdrop given that it takes place in areas like Scotland and Hong Kong, but the development there is threadbare too. Some characters who had accents later didn't have them, the environment was thinly drawn - there was very little tying it together for place or even transitions from place to place. I think the environment of Hong Kong was a little more palpable than the drawing of Scotland in the beginning, but my biggest question was HOW DID THEY GET THERE? There were so many gaps of time span that were unexplained or unvetted that it really didn't do a good job of sequencing with the story.
This story sequenced itself through four different characters in a third-person omniscent perspective. I found that I moved through the POVs fine, but the vague descriptors and establishment of the characters made it hard to connect, so the cast was never really defined enough to make their perspectives pop more. I could very well see people getting lost in this novel because of the POV switches, though, and for the way it was done.
And we're not even going to talk about the comparison to Hunger Games and Game of Thrones. There's none to be had, I think the story had interesting threads, but there was really no direction or linking that would suggest it was anything like the aforementioned stories.
In other words, this book had a lot of misdirection and false advertisement. It had some great ideas, but felt like they needed to be vetted out and smoothed for transition. It's a novel with a lot of bark, but not a whole lot of bite.
I'll give the sequel a chance, but it's gotta step it up from this point. Because what I saw here were some interesting moments that never had any measure of direction or structure to help them, and that had me in the role of playing "Seeker" for answers that were never provided than following the journeys of the Seekers.
Overall score: 2.5/5 stars
Note: I received this as an ARC from NetGalley, from the publisher Random House Delacorte BFYR.
adventurous
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It was decent enough to read the entirety of but I'm not sure if I'll read the rest of the series??
I received a copy of this book from the publisher through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
This was a complete cover and impulse request but I loved this so much.
I was quite impressed by the concept and I appreciated the effort the author put into blending the past and present for the world building. The world building blended steam-punk and futuristic settings as well as bringing magic into the mix.
I thought this book had fantastic pacing and I'm really interested in the direction the author is taking the series.
The characterization and development was phenomenal; every character felt distinct and had their own separate goals and desires as well as their flaws. This distinctness made the different perspectives interesting and necessary for the story development.
I will definitely on the look out for the next book in the series.
I would recommend this book for fantasy readers and young readers interested in getting into fantasy.
This was a complete cover and impulse request but I loved this so much.
I was quite impressed by the concept and I appreciated the effort the author put into blending the past and present for the world building. The world building blended steam-punk and futuristic settings as well as bringing magic into the mix.
I thought this book had fantastic pacing and I'm really interested in the direction the author is taking the series.
The characterization and development was phenomenal; every character felt distinct and had their own separate goals and desires as well as their flaws. This distinctness made the different perspectives interesting and necessary for the story development.
I will definitely on the look out for the next book in the series.
I would recommend this book for fantasy readers and young readers interested in getting into fantasy.
Oh my! This book is hard for me to rate. The beginning was a little confusing and then it got really good. Then I got lost. There were too many details and too much world building. I have no idea where this series is going. Then the last few chapters everything really came into focus.
The Good: I have to admit that I enjoyed much of this story. My favorite part of this story was the characters called the Dreads, that are sort of overseers of the Seeker training and the oath ceremony. They are really unique in their interactions with each other and their role in the world. I grew pretty attached to the characters. Quim really grows a lot during this story and John becomes something I didn’t see coming. I loved learning about the weapons. We learn about them right along with the characters. The fighting scenes were well choreographed. The flashbacks were well placed in order to understand the characters motives. I especially loved the ending. The ending was a resolution, and a promise for the characters to carry on in their quests.
The bad: I know the point of a book in a series, especially the first book, is meant to hook the reader. There were a few points where I thought this book could have come to a conclusion, but the author was relentless in dragging out the story. We start off in Scotland, then to Hong Kong, then off to London. All of that travel and there is still another place they call There that the characters bounce to a few times. It was just a bit too much. The start in the Scotland countryside was perfect and should have been where this whole story took place, in my opinion. I grew frustrated reading about Quin and her forgetting and then remembering. John and his quest to right his name. Also, Shinobu’s interest in Quin was setting itself up for the typical love triangle.
Conclusion: I think this was a good first book in a series. Perhaps the next book will be calmer, or at least have less locations. I will be reading the sequel, no matter, because I want to see where the characters end up.
The Good: I have to admit that I enjoyed much of this story. My favorite part of this story was the characters called the Dreads, that are sort of overseers of the Seeker training and the oath ceremony. They are really unique in their interactions with each other and their role in the world. I grew pretty attached to the characters. Quim really grows a lot during this story and John becomes something I didn’t see coming. I loved learning about the weapons. We learn about them right along with the characters. The fighting scenes were well choreographed. The flashbacks were well placed in order to understand the characters motives. I especially loved the ending. The ending was a resolution, and a promise for the characters to carry on in their quests.
The bad: I know the point of a book in a series, especially the first book, is meant to hook the reader. There were a few points where I thought this book could have come to a conclusion, but the author was relentless in dragging out the story. We start off in Scotland, then to Hong Kong, then off to London. All of that travel and there is still another place they call There that the characters bounce to a few times. It was just a bit too much. The start in the Scotland countryside was perfect and should have been where this whole story took place, in my opinion. I grew frustrated reading about Quin and her forgetting and then remembering. John and his quest to right his name. Also, Shinobu’s interest in Quin was setting itself up for the typical love triangle.
Conclusion: I think this was a good first book in a series. Perhaps the next book will be calmer, or at least have less locations. I will be reading the sequel, no matter, because I want to see where the characters end up.
Da ich mal wieder Fantasy lesen wollte kam mir dieses Buch gerade recht. Das Cover hat mich sehr angesprochen und auch der Klappentext hat mich neugierig gemacht.
Ganz kurz zum Inhalt. Es geht um vier junge Menschen, Quin, John, Shinobu und Maud, von denen wir in abwechselnden Kapiteln lesen. Quin und Shinobu, die ihr ganzes Leben nur darauf hintrainierten um Seeker zu werden und dann herausfinden, dass alles woran sie glaubten eine Lüge war, John der seine Familie rächen will und Maud, die junge Dread, die ihren Platz sucht.
Wobei mir Maud von allen am liebsten war! Sie war auch diejenige mit dem spannendsten und mysteriösesten Part.
Das Buch ist in 3 Teilen unterteilt, den ersten wo wir die vier Charaktere kennenlernen, einen Zwischenteil mit Erinnerungen und einem dritten Teil der anderthalb Jahre nach dem ersten Teil spielt.
Grundsätzlich hat mir das Buch gut gefallen. Wenn ich auch ziemlich Mühe mit der Liebesgeschichte hatte. Konnte den Teil am Schluss absolut nicht nachvollziehen (aus Sicht von Quien) die Idee der Geschichte selber fand ich spannend, aber ich hätte gerne mehr Erklärungen bekommen, über die Seeker, über die Dreads, über die Welt in der sie leben, einfach etwas mehr als die Autorin mir da gegeben hat. Weil das hat zwar alles spannend gemacht aber auch sehr wirr. Was vielleicht auch daran liegt das ich länger kein richtiges Fantasy mehr gelesen habe.
Schreibstil war gut, nicht so flüssig wie ich es in letzter Zeit öfters gesehen habe, aber gut.
Werde mir auf jedenfalls die weiteren Bände ansehen =)
Ganz kurz zum Inhalt. Es geht um vier junge Menschen, Quin, John, Shinobu und Maud, von denen wir in abwechselnden Kapiteln lesen. Quin und Shinobu, die ihr ganzes Leben nur darauf hintrainierten um Seeker zu werden und dann herausfinden, dass alles woran sie glaubten eine Lüge war, John der seine Familie rächen will und Maud, die junge Dread, die ihren Platz sucht.
Wobei mir Maud von allen am liebsten war! Sie war auch diejenige mit dem spannendsten und mysteriösesten Part.
Das Buch ist in 3 Teilen unterteilt, den ersten wo wir die vier Charaktere kennenlernen, einen Zwischenteil mit Erinnerungen und einem dritten Teil der anderthalb Jahre nach dem ersten Teil spielt.
Grundsätzlich hat mir das Buch gut gefallen. Wenn ich auch ziemlich Mühe mit der Liebesgeschichte hatte. Konnte den Teil am Schluss absolut nicht nachvollziehen (aus Sicht von Quien) die Idee der Geschichte selber fand ich spannend, aber ich hätte gerne mehr Erklärungen bekommen, über die Seeker, über die Dreads, über die Welt in der sie leben, einfach etwas mehr als die Autorin mir da gegeben hat. Weil das hat zwar alles spannend gemacht aber auch sehr wirr. Was vielleicht auch daran liegt das ich länger kein richtiges Fantasy mehr gelesen habe.
Schreibstil war gut, nicht so flüssig wie ich es in letzter Zeit öfters gesehen habe, aber gut.
Werde mir auf jedenfalls die weiteren Bände ansehen =)