Seeker
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3.6 • 5 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Quin Kincaid has been put through years of brutal training for what she thinks is the noble purpose of becoming a revered ‘Seeker’.
Only when it’s too late does she discover she will be using her new-found knowledge and training to become an assassin. Quin's new role will take her around the globe, from a remote estate in Scotland to a bustling, futuristic Hong Kong where the past she thought she had escaped will finally catch up with her.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
From the opening fight scene between the whip-smart Quin and her gargantuan uncle, we were all in for this exciting young-adult fantasy. Quin has been training since birth to fulfill the honourable role of Seeker, destined to protect her impoverished Scottish community from a grave threat. American author Arlen Elys Dalton crafts a rich world full of atmosphere and mystery, skillfully teasing out her amazingly strong and appealing heroine’s journey of disillusionment, danger and moral dilemmas.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this powerful beginning to a complex family saga, 15-year-old Quin Kincaid, her biracial cousin Shinobu MacBain, and their friend John Hart train on the Kincaid family's Scottish estate to become Seekers, warriors who slip through space and time. Historically, Seekers used their powers and weapons chameleon whipswords and nightmarish, sanity-stripping disruptors to right wrongs. When Quin and Shinobu venture on their first mission, they find they're destined to be assassins for Quin's brutal, manipulative father. The novel's appeal lies less in the slightly futuristic, slightly alternate-history setting, than in the way the nascent Seekers cope with betrayal: Quin and Shinobu flee to Hong Kong, where Quin chooses a path of therapeutic amnesia, and Shinobu plunges into drug use and dangerous salvage diving. Meanwhile, John risks becoming what he most despises as he seeks revenge and possession of his family's "athame," the tool that allows Seekers to cut through the fabric of reality. Worldbuilding can be sketchy, but Dayton (Resurrection) excels at creating memorable characters, among them Maud, the "Young Dread," an ageless child whose mysterious clan is linked to the Seekers. Ages 14 up.
