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i_dream_of_books 's review for:
Seeker
by Arwen Elys Dayton
This book had the unfortunate problem of being compared to series like The Hunger Games and Game of Thrones. When you are up against that much hype, I feel people will be disappointed. I read some reviews that described this book as unreadable and a lot of readers DNF (Did not finish). That being said, I enjoyed this book. It kept me interested and had a pretty good layer of lore surrounding it. To be clear, this book is NOT like either of the two books mentioned. It has a fantasy feel, but it's more like starter fantasy. Fantasy lite if you will. The sequel has the potential to be pretty epic and I hope the author does it justice. The characters if I am being honest are not the most likeable. The people I was most interested in were Middle Dread and Young Dread (Maud). Who are these people? They have an interesting storyline of their own and deserve their own book series. Another thing I didn't like was the timeline. It took place over like a 2 year period. That was clear to me, and when there was backstory, that was also clear to me. But the present time had this weird feeling of being in the past with modern technology. They lived in what seemed like 1800's Scotland, but they had a TV. I don't know, it bothered me throughout the series. Did I love this book? No. Did I like it? Yes.