Viktor has one order to follow: Kill the girl before her eyes are opened. For thousands of years, his job has been to torment and kill seers: humans that have the gift of seeing the spiritual realm. So it was no surprise when his brother Matthias was once again sent to stop him and protect the girl. Now the last of the seers' bloodline hangs in the balance, as the estranged demon and angel brothers are forced to work together to save a girl's life and escape to the sanctuary city of Bethesda ...
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Viktor has one order to follow: Kill the girl before her eyes are opened. For thousands of years, his job has been to torment and kill seers: humans that have the gift of seeing the spiritual realm. So it was no surprise when his brother Matthias was once again sent to stop him and protect the girl. Now the last of the seers' bloodline hangs in the balance, as the estranged demon and angel brothers are forced to work together to save a girl's life and escape to the sanctuary city of Bethesda.
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Well, The Seer is one of those odd ones where I have no idea how to even start formulating my thoughts. The story is quite different from my usual reading habits.
I'm not a complete stranger to spiritual warfare fiction, especially for teens, as I've read Frank Peretti, Ted Dekker, and Bill Meyers' Forbidden Doors series. But, I have to admit that this is the first book I've read where angels and demons are portrayed as main characters.
I'm going to lay it out there. This book is fiction so don't take your theology from it, however, it is a good introduction to the fact there are angels and demons in active warfare, and, that humans, usually unwittingly, have their own role in that battle. I was a bit uncomfortable with how humanized said celestial beings were, and with some theological issues, but I suppose that is the direction Erin R. Howard needed to take in order to make the story more accessible for teens. To be honest, I was caught up in the story and frequently forgot that Matthias and Viktor were anything other than hero and anti-hero.
The Seer is entertaining. It's interesting. It's different. It has all of the necessary requirements for a good YA book, and series, with an epic quest, a reluctant heroine struggling with issues of trust and faith and her own perceived inadequacy, there are lots of battles, secrets that are both ancient and family related, personal sacrifice, and even the faint possibility of romance. If you have a YA reader at home that enjoys speculative fiction they just might be interested in Erin R. Howard's series The Kalila Chronicles.
(I received a copy of this book from the author. All opinions are entirely my own.)
