The Seer, Sonia Orin Lyris
The Seer, Sonia Orin Lyris
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The Seer

Author: Sonia Orin Lyris

Narrator: Amy Landon

Unabridged: 27 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/24/2020

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Epic


Synopsis

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.

About Sonia Orin Lyris

Sonia Orin Lyris is a writer of fantasy, horror, mainstream, and science fiction, as well as software documentation and business plans. She has a shodan in Aikido, can wield a range of weapons, and dances Argentine tango and Blues. She has raised an emu from a hatchling, been kicked and spat on by llamas, and been pounced on by a cougar cub-not all at the same time. She lives in the Pacific Northwest.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dan on January 30, 2016

I enjoyed this rather long novel. It might have been better had it been a tad shorter, but still, quite a good read.......more

Goodreads review by Leeanna on May 05, 2016

This review originally appeared on my blog, Leeanna.me. == THE SEER is a complete, well developed, dark, realistic, and intriguing fantasy. While I would like another book (I’m greedy!), it was refreshing to get such a story in one volume, rather than having to wait and wait for sequels. Amarta’s visi......more

Goodreads review by Clifton on March 05, 2017

The Seer is a masterpiece of Epic Fantasy in the vein of The Game of Thrones. Amarta can see the future, but nothing is certain, everything changes, and a man made powerful by her own talent will stop at nothing to have her power for his own—or for none at all. Innel is a man raised in the King’s Coho......more

Goodreads review by Nessie on April 03, 2016

This book is not the first work of Sonia's that I have read, but it is the first that exists entirely within a world she has created, and the masterful way in which she builds worlds definitely shows. I found the world immersive, the characters compelling and multi-layered, and the plot delightfully......more

Goodreads review by Karen on May 22, 2016

I'm rounding up about half a star. This book combines rich worldbuilding with beautifully conceived characters and an intricate yet largely comprehensible plot. The world Lyris constructs so well is a fairly depressing one, with brutality and warfare a near constant. Indeed, many of the important cha......more