Seeker (Seeker #1)
***Review posted on The Eater of Books! blog***Seeker by Arwen Elys DaytonBook One of the Seeker seriesPublisher: Delacorte Books for Young ReadersPublication Date: February 10, 2015Rating: 4 starsSource: ARC sent by the publisherSummary (from Goodreads):For readers of A Game of Thrones and The Hunger Games comes an epic new series.The night Quin Kincaid takes her Oath, she will become what she has trained to be her entire life. She will become a Seeker. This is her legacy, and it is an honor.
Received a copy from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.SEEKER is EPIC--a truly imaginative and entertaining YA Fantasy/Sci-Fi novel. Talk about some serious world building and a fascinating mix of genres. There was a little bit of everything going on here: high fantasy, science fiction, maybe even steampunk...? I'm in awe. Arwen Elys Dayton, you made it work girl!I normally don't care for novels with more than one or two narrators, but it was fun to see 4 very
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
An advance copy of this novel was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. My thoughts are my own.This review can also be found at The Starry-Eyed Revue.Gah, can we stop with the comparisons already? I really hate it when summaries include these because it really tends to muck up the way a reader goes into a story, as well as what they take away from it. To me, this book was like no other I've read. It's told in third person omniscient from four different perspectives, and
On one hand, it's great to see a neat modern sci-fi/fantasy hybrid for the YA set. On the other, with a handful of unnecessarily weird sexually-charged scenes that don't match up with the book and an ending that more peters toward a sequel than moves full-blast into the next book, this ends up being just a good, interesting read as opposed to the great one with excellent promise I thought it was about a fifth of the way in.The book basically follows three teens training to be "Seekers," some of
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
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Title | : | Seeker (Seeker #1) |
Author | : | Arwen Elys Dayton |
Book Format | : | Hardcover |
Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 448 pages |
Published | : | February 10th 2015 by Delacorte Press |
Categories | : | Fantasy. Young Adult |
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The night Quin Kincaid takes her Oath, she will become what she has trained to be her entire life. She will become a Seeker. This is her legacy, and it is an honor. As a Seeker, Quin will fight beside her two closest companions, Shinobu and John, to protect the weak and the wronged. Together they will stand for light in a shadowy world. And she’ll be with the boy she loves–who’s also her best friend. But the night Quin takes her Oath, everything changes. Being a Seeker is not what she thought. Her family is not what she thought. Even the boy she loves is not who she thought. And now it’s too late to walk away.Present Books As Seeker (Seeker #1)
Original Title: | Seeker |
ISBN: | 0385744072 (ISBN13: 9780385744072) |
Edition Language: | English |
Series: | Seeker #1 |
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***Review posted on The Eater of Books! blog***Seeker by Arwen Elys DaytonBook One of the Seeker seriesPublisher: Delacorte Books for Young ReadersPublication Date: February 10, 2015Rating: 4 starsSource: ARC sent by the publisherSummary (from Goodreads):For readers of A Game of Thrones and The Hunger Games comes an epic new series.The night Quin Kincaid takes her Oath, she will become what she has trained to be her entire life. She will become a Seeker. This is her legacy, and it is an honor.
Received a copy from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.SEEKER is EPIC--a truly imaginative and entertaining YA Fantasy/Sci-Fi novel. Talk about some serious world building and a fascinating mix of genres. There was a little bit of everything going on here: high fantasy, science fiction, maybe even steampunk...? I'm in awe. Arwen Elys Dayton, you made it work girl!I normally don't care for novels with more than one or two narrators, but it was fun to see 4 very
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
An advance copy of this novel was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. My thoughts are my own.This review can also be found at The Starry-Eyed Revue.Gah, can we stop with the comparisons already? I really hate it when summaries include these because it really tends to muck up the way a reader goes into a story, as well as what they take away from it. To me, this book was like no other I've read. It's told in third person omniscient from four different perspectives, and
On one hand, it's great to see a neat modern sci-fi/fantasy hybrid for the YA set. On the other, with a handful of unnecessarily weird sexually-charged scenes that don't match up with the book and an ending that more peters toward a sequel than moves full-blast into the next book, this ends up being just a good, interesting read as opposed to the great one with excellent promise I thought it was about a fifth of the way in.The book basically follows three teens training to be "Seekers," some of
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
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