The Seer

By: Sonia Orin Lyris

Narrated by: Amy Landon

Everybody wants answers. No one wants the truth.

The Arunkel empire has stood a thousand years, forged by wealth and conquest, but now rebellion is stirring on the borders and treachery brews in the palace halls. Elsewhere, in a remote mountain village, a young mother sells the prophesies of her sister, Amarta, in order to keep them and her infant child from starving. It's a dangerous game when such revelations draw suspicion and mistrust as often as they earn coin.

Yet Amarta's visions are true. And often not at all what the seeker wishes to hear.

Now in a tapestry of loyalty, intrigue, magic, and gold, Amarta has become the key to a ruler's ambitions. But is she nothing beyond a tool? As Amarta comes into her own as a seer, she realizes she must do more than predict the future. She must create it.

©2016 Sonia Orin Lyris (P)2020 Tantor

lovely fantasy

This was a great fantasy world and world building. As implied by the name it has a certain character that can see into the future but there are also other magics in this world. Overall I would recommend this book as a fun fantasy world to get lost in.

This book was slow and drawn out.

The book started out good and interesting, but in the middle it slowed down, like the author didn’t know what to write next and was repetitive sometimes. It had a good ending, but was somewhat rushed and character growth not well defined. It would have benefited with another rewrite from the middle on.