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Seeker
by Arwen Elys Dayton
I received a copy of this via Netgalley back in 2015 and since then I have tried to read this book two other times before finally finishing it. I guess the third time is the charm? However, I was thoroughly underwhelmed.
Quinn, John, and Shinobu are teens training to be Seekers. They all come from a long line of Seekers and hope to take the oaths that will continue the tradition. This is something they have trained all their lives for and when the time finally comes for the oaths, they realize that maybe being a Seeker isn't exactly what they thought it would be. Suddenly it's a race across the world as ancient artifacts are claimed and stolen while everyone wonders just what it "right".
If that summary feels a little vague it's honestly because I still don't really understand what this book was about. Let's take Seekers for example. What are they, you ask? I have no idea. We are constantly told that they are people who "do good in the world" but there is no other explanation. What is their point? What is their main goal? How were they founded? This was one of the worst world buildings that I have ever read. Nothing made sense, nothing was explained and everything was just vague.
And this makes me sad because when I finally got past the same first two chapters that I've read multiple times, I really started to enjoy it and thought 'this is going to be a great book!'. But alas, I was so wrong and by 50% I was bored and didn't care about any of the characters -they were all kind of horrible. And what was with the "Intermission" section where we went back in time to see them as kids? It felt really out of place and did not flow at all.
I'm giving this two stars because it had so much potential but it got weighed down by its needless wanderings and random history lessons that came at the worst time. I'm unsure if I'll finish this series (I honestly can't even remember how it ended and I finished it last night). For now, I'm just going to leave it at the first book.
Quinn, John, and Shinobu are teens training to be Seekers. They all come from a long line of Seekers and hope to take the oaths that will continue the tradition. This is something they have trained all their lives for and when the time finally comes for the oaths, they realize that maybe being a Seeker isn't exactly what they thought it would be. Suddenly it's a race across the world as ancient artifacts are claimed and stolen while everyone wonders just what it "right".
If that summary feels a little vague it's honestly because I still don't really understand what this book was about. Let's take Seekers for example. What are they, you ask? I have no idea. We are constantly told that they are people who "do good in the world" but there is no other explanation. What is their point? What is their main goal? How were they founded? This was one of the worst world buildings that I have ever read. Nothing made sense, nothing was explained and everything was just vague.
And this makes me sad because when I finally got past the same first two chapters that I've read multiple times, I really started to enjoy it and thought 'this is going to be a great book!'. But alas, I was so wrong and by 50% I was bored and didn't care about any of the characters -they were all kind of horrible. And what was with the "Intermission" section where we went back in time to see them as kids? It felt really out of place and did not flow at all.
I'm giving this two stars because it had so much potential but it got weighed down by its needless wanderings and random history lessons that came at the worst time. I'm unsure if I'll finish this series (I honestly can't even remember how it ended and I finished it last night). For now, I'm just going to leave it at the first book.