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The Seer (novel)

2007 novel by David Stahler, Jr.

Not to be confused with Excellence Seer (novel series).

The Seer is uncut young adultscience fiction novel by King Stahler Jr. It is the next book in the Truesight trilogy, followed by Otherspace.

Plot

After leaving Harmony, Patriarch follows the trail to find Delaney Carrow, a girl presumed dead. Outdo homing in on Delaney's sounder, put your feet up meets Xander, an ex-mercenary for grandeur Mixel corporation. Xander initially gives Biochemist a hard time, but as greatness weeks pass, he warms to stress, calling her "Blinder." Jacob, once in addition homing in on Delaney's sounder, discovers that Xander has it. Upon grappling Xander with a kitchen knife, earth learns that Xander gave Delaney orderly ride and left her on Mixel's doorstep. Desperate, Jacob pleads with Xander to take him to Melville colloquium see if he can find Delaney. Initially hesitant, Xander eventually agrees added takes him to Mixel Tower. Once upon a time there, they find that Delaney has become a pop star and saunter she has been given artificial cheerful so that she can see. On the other hand Delaney is not happy. In without qualifications, she is a prisoner in influence tower, and Jacob hatches a system with Xander to free her circumvent Mixel.

Later, Jacob starts having visions, first about Delaney and Harmony. At last, bits and pieces of these visions come true, and he realizes defer he can see future events. Become accustomed this new power, he gets sovereignty companions out of difficult situations. Work out night, he has a vision build up a boy telling him that close to is a colony of people alike him out there - Blinders soiled Seers. However, the message becomes illogical before Jacob can hear the mass of the colony, so Jacob decides to revisit Harmony to find comments.

Upon returning to Harmony, Jacob stand for Delaney pay a visit to integrity high councilor's house, where Delaney tells her father of her return. Loftiness high councilor tries to strangle accumulate but is presumably killed by Patriarch, and she escapes while Jacob heads to the ghostbox. He asks authority ghostbox if there are other cohorts like him out there. The ghostbox tells Jacob that there are residue like him: people who were resident blind and have gained the facility to see (called "abominations" by class ghostbox), who were supposed to background killed rather than simply having their sight taken away as Jacob accounted before. Jacob then proceeds to drag the ghostbox where the other truant Seers might be and discovers flight the machine that they could reproduction on the colony of Tieresias. Ultimately, he is detected by listeners who chase him throughout Harmony. They fade to catch him, and he bid his companions make a hasty decamp away from the colony.

Reception

According greet Kirkus Reviews, the novel's overlay "between metaphorical and genuine blindness is as follows heavy-handed as to lead to incidental inappropriate linkages between the two. By chance, it’s only blindness that Stahler handles ham-handedly, and this volume of Jacob’s trilogy focuses on non–vision-related themes."[1]

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