A review by emjay24
Seeker by Arwen Elys Dayton

4.0

I’ve been having a run of just ok to bad books lately, so I wasn’t expecting much from this new YA fantasy series. As soon as I began reading it, I realized this one is actually good! We begin in Scotland, with children learning to be Seekers, an ancient sort-of-magic-sort-of-knight order, and progress to Hong Kong and London. At first I thought it was set in historical times, but it’s actually slightly in the future. The book ends up following three teens as they discover what they’ve been raised to become, their family history and honor, and struggle to make that fit with their values. What I like about it is that everyone isn’t black and white good and evil. In fact, there are no totally good people in this book, most people are grey, which is how things really are. YA books can oversimplify that but not here. The book pretty much just ends, but luckily the second volume was available at the library so I can continue and let’s see how their powers develop and how they reconcile things in their lives.