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Seekers #6
Spirits in the Stars
On the unforgiving Arctic Ice . . . United once again, Toklo, Lusa, Kallik, and Ujurak continue across the ice. Conditions are harsh and especially treacherous for the black bear and grizzly bears who are not used to the brutal cold, never-ending snow, and limited food. But the bears are certain now that they're on the right course, and with the stars still guiding them, they push forward. When they reach land at last, the group is overjoyed, but something is not right. The bears who live here are ill. What's wrong with them? What can the foursome do to help? Is aiding these strangers the ultimate goal of their quest? Ujurak just might hold the key to their mission in his paws, yet it's Lusa the new bears are especially interested in. Three young cubs, each from different backgrounds, and their mysterious shape-shifting companion have grown up together in their long and dangerous journey to save the wild. Now, when their task appears more difficult than ever, the bears must make a critical decision . . . and for one bear the path ends here.
304 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2010
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Erin Hunter
277 books10.7k followersErin Hunter is the pseudonym of five people: Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, Tui T. Sutherland, Gillian Philip, and Inbali Iserles, as well as editor Victoria Holmes. Together, they write the Warriors series as well as the Seekers and Survivors series. Erin Hunter is working on a new series now called Bravelands.
Erin Hunter is inspired by a love of cats and a fascination with the ferocity of the natural world. As well as having a great respect for nature in all its forms, Erin enjoys creating rich mythical explanations for animal behavior, shaped by her interest in astronomy and standing stones.
Erin Hunter is inspired by a love of cats and a fascination with the ferocity of the natural world. As well as having a great respect for nature in all its forms, Erin enjoys creating rich mythical explanations for animal behavior, shaped by her interest in astronomy and standing stones.
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April 25, 2014
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Although I read this series when I was a lot younger, I re-read it and Awwwwww, such a cute series. The Ice is such a harsh and unforgiving place where we say goodbye to all our bear friends in this last book of the series and goodbye to one certain bear for good :(
I had the silent wish that he would return and was quite upset when he didn't. If only I could convince myself that the dead won't return no matter how many times you read the series.
Toklo was such a strong character but him having to lose both Tobi and Ujurak? It was all too much for me. Toklo really was a sweet character once you got past his first impression appearance of a grumpy leader.
I hope that Kissimi grows up to remember Kallik, Lusa, Toklo and Ujurak and that they might meet sometime in the future.
I also hope that Lusa doesn't lose Kallik along they way as Yakone joins the group and that Kallik is reunited with Taqqiq.
'While Yakone turned back to say goodbye to the other white bears, Kallik gazed up at the sky. She knew that somewhere beyond the blue Ujurak was watching them. His sent whisked around her, and she heard him whisper.
"I will be with you every step of the way home."
"Thank you," Kallik whispered back.
Just because I'm interested, leave a comment on what you wished for after the series ended :D
Although I read this series when I was a lot younger, I re-read it and Awwwwww, such a cute series. The Ice is such a harsh and unforgiving place where we say goodbye to all our bear friends in this last book of the series and goodbye to one certain bear for good :(
I had the silent wish that he would return and was quite upset when he didn't. If only I could convince myself that the dead won't return no matter how many times you read the series.
Toklo was such a strong character but him having to lose both Tobi and Ujurak? It was all too much for me. Toklo really was a sweet character once you got past his first impression appearance of a grumpy leader.
I hope that Kissimi grows up to remember Kallik, Lusa, Toklo and Ujurak and that they might meet sometime in the future.
I also hope that Lusa doesn't lose Kallik along they way as Yakone joins the group and that Kallik is reunited with Taqqiq.
'While Yakone turned back to say goodbye to the other white bears, Kallik gazed up at the sky. She knew that somewhere beyond the blue Ujurak was watching them. His sent whisked around her, and she heard him whisper.
"I will be with you every step of the way home."
"Thank you," Kallik whispered back.
Just because I'm interested, leave a comment on what you wished for after the series ended :D
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 28, 2011
I haven't read this series since I was a lot younger. Back in the days where I enjoyed reading about talking animals going on adventures and acting like humans. Granted, Erin Hunter does a better job portraying it than most but still. For some bizarre reason, I got the sudden urge to read the next book in the Seekers Series, even though I hadn't touched them in years. Maybe I'm just a nostalgic person, but I decided to continue the series and see where the heck talking bears can go. Well, I read it. And I'm not quite sure what to think of it. I'll give it some leeway since I assume it was meant for a younger audience, but I wasn't a big fan of the writing style. It was pretty simplistic. The plot was okay, it mostly felt like a bunch of bears wandering around the arctic and discovering the consequences of global warming. The characters were okay, but not as charming as I remembered. I liked Kallik and Lusa, but quite frankly Toklo struck me as rather arrogant and obnoxious. In any case, it's a good book for a younger audience but unless you have a strong passion for talking bears, I wouldn't recommend it.
February 2, 2021
The end of the quest.... loved it!
January 2, 2018
Kallik is awsome. Same with Lusa, Toklo, Ujurak. Ujurak is gone now.
October 5, 2024
High three stars. I’m a bit disappointed this wasn’t better.
I feel a lot of nostalgia for this book, for some reason. I was never huge on the Seekers series, even when I was first reading it as a much younger kid, but now I really have no clue why this book in particular is so nostalgic. ‘Spirits in the Stars’ is a bit underwhelming as an arc finale, though it does introduce some cool lore. The writing is the same as the rest of the Seekers books, meaning it’s ok but nothing noteworthy.
The plot; however, is more interesting than pretty much every previous book almost solely because, for once, it does not center on walking. It’s nice to have another break from traveling to wandering a smaller area, although once again the place they stop is not very distinct from any of the other areas they’ve paused in. Star Island as a setting feels very much like any other island. It only really feels different from Ujurak’s POV when he becomes a seal, and a tiny bit at the end with the oil rig. I really hope that Seekers: Return to the Wild has more variation in settings when the bears aren’t traveling.
Getting a bigger group of bears to interact with was also nice, since after a while the main four get pretty stale. The same can be said for the new human group we met, although last book’s “flat-faces” were also pretty good. I also really enjoyed the lore we got in this one, about Ujurak and Ursa. Ujurak as a concept makes a lot more sense in that context, and it’s a really cool idea to make him the Little Dipper. It also makes his eventual death feel more like destiny rather than the cheap, weird writing it actually was.
Ok. Characters.
Kallik is just bleh this book. Her relationship with Kissimi is cute, but I was disappointed that she was relegated to being the mother character in the story instead of really contributing. She also didn’t really have a reason for being on the quest the way Ujurak, and I guess Lusa, did.
Same with Toklo. He stayed consistent personality-wise, but he also didn’t really have a specified role in the bears’ destiny, except maybe as the planner? Or the fighter? I don’t know. The bears overall don’t feel like as a much of a close unit as I think they’re supposed to. Toklo himself was fine this book. I’m curious to see how Ujurak’s death impacts him in the next one, though. I recall that being handled pretty weirdly, but maybe I’m misremembering.
Lusa was pretty good. She seems to have conveniently forgotten about hibernation for most of the book, though, which was extremely annoying, considering how important it was last book. Other than that, I found her supposed contribution to the bears’ destiny underwhelming. It wasn’t bad, it just didn’t feel like it was as important as the Star Island bears made it out to be.
And Ujurak. He really carried this book, in my opinion. And most of the series post-Toklo’s character development. Which doesn’t bode well for the next series. . . But oh well. I loved him this book. There’s not much else to say. He had interesting interactions with the bears and other creatures, and it feels like he learned a lot from the beginning of the series. The only thing I don’t like is how he died. His death felt cheap, almost like an afterthought. But I’ve never been a fan of the ‘character dies right after we think everything is fine’ trope, so maybe it’s just me.
Overall, a pretty solid Seekers book, but nothing too special, and a bit underwhelming for the end of the arc.
I feel a lot of nostalgia for this book, for some reason. I was never huge on the Seekers series, even when I was first reading it as a much younger kid, but now I really have no clue why this book in particular is so nostalgic. ‘Spirits in the Stars’ is a bit underwhelming as an arc finale, though it does introduce some cool lore. The writing is the same as the rest of the Seekers books, meaning it’s ok but nothing noteworthy.
The plot; however, is more interesting than pretty much every previous book almost solely because, for once, it does not center on walking. It’s nice to have another break from traveling to wandering a smaller area, although once again the place they stop is not very distinct from any of the other areas they’ve paused in. Star Island as a setting feels very much like any other island. It only really feels different from Ujurak’s POV when he becomes a seal, and a tiny bit at the end with the oil rig. I really hope that Seekers: Return to the Wild has more variation in settings when the bears aren’t traveling.
Getting a bigger group of bears to interact with was also nice, since after a while the main four get pretty stale. The same can be said for the new human group we met, although last book’s “flat-faces” were also pretty good. I also really enjoyed the lore we got in this one, about Ujurak and Ursa. Ujurak as a concept makes a lot more sense in that context, and it’s a really cool idea to make him the Little Dipper. It also makes his eventual death feel more like destiny rather than the cheap, weird writing it actually was.
Ok. Characters.
Kallik is just bleh this book. Her relationship with Kissimi is cute, but I was disappointed that she was relegated to being the mother character in the story instead of really contributing. She also didn’t really have a reason for being on the quest the way Ujurak, and I guess Lusa, did.
Same with Toklo. He stayed consistent personality-wise, but he also didn’t really have a specified role in the bears’ destiny, except maybe as the planner? Or the fighter? I don’t know. The bears overall don’t feel like as a much of a close unit as I think they’re supposed to. Toklo himself was fine this book. I’m curious to see how Ujurak’s death impacts him in the next one, though. I recall that being handled pretty weirdly, but maybe I’m misremembering.
Lusa was pretty good. She seems to have conveniently forgotten about hibernation for most of the book, though, which was extremely annoying, considering how important it was last book. Other than that, I found her supposed contribution to the bears’ destiny underwhelming. It wasn’t bad, it just didn’t feel like it was as important as the Star Island bears made it out to be.
And Ujurak. He really carried this book, in my opinion. And most of the series post-Toklo’s character development. Which doesn’t bode well for the next series. . . But oh well. I loved him this book. There’s not much else to say. He had interesting interactions with the bears and other creatures, and it feels like he learned a lot from the beginning of the series. The only thing I don’t like is how he died. His death felt cheap, almost like an afterthought. But I’ve never been a fan of the ‘character dies right after we think everything is fine’ trope, so maybe it’s just me.
Overall, a pretty solid Seekers book, but nothing too special, and a bit underwhelming for the end of the arc.
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October 23, 2025
Overall a solid conclusion to a series i enjoyed revisiting a lot more than I expected to. It honestly holds up better than I expected reading the books as an adult. Only knocked down a star because I really didn’t like the Kissimi storyline.
December 31, 2023
4 stars. Get your tissues ready door this one.
March 6, 2017
Een best aardig slot van deze serie, dat - tegen mijn verwachting in - toch nog een afgerond einde oplevert. Waar de andere delen soms een beetje eentonig werden, hebben de vier beren in dit boek gelukkig ook genoeg te doen.
September 30, 2011
I thought that the book was great. My favorite part was when the bears saved the wild. They were clever to use the caribou stampede that could kill them to destroy the horrible human structure. They know that they went on this journey for a reason and then all of a sudden, their guide, Ujurak died saving them. All of them were sad but they got a knew companion, Yakone, the polar bear. It all settled in their hearts that they saved the wild and more like saved the whole world.
April 30, 2016
I told myself I wasn't going to cry. I told myself that this is Erin Hunter's writing, not John Steinbeck's, and it isn't worth leaking my eyes over.
I was only half-right. I didn't cry, but that doesn't mean I didn't get a little torn-up (even though I knew what was going to happen).
I was only half-right. I didn't cry, but that doesn't mean I didn't get a little torn-up (even though I knew what was going to happen).
June 11, 2012
Today I remembered that my favourite character in this book dies and it makes me want to motherfucking sob hysterically.
April 4, 2014
SOOOO SAD!!!!! Why, Urajak, Why!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
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February 10, 2014This book was so sad. I was crying by the end.
February 3, 2015
this book was one of the sadist one of them all. because a certian bear leaves forever.
June 7, 2017
So the series is over. The goal to save the Wild is not the entire wild but one island. But there is a reason for that island, so read it and find out.
You got this far, then the rest will not be spoilers.
Ujurak was my favorite as he is a bear that can shape shift. Kept expecting a reveal that he is really a human, but he remains a brown bear to the end.
Toklo is my second favorite as a grizzly bear who gets hooked into guarding them all.
Lusa is the hear and also a favorite as a black bear.
Kallik is ok as a nurturing bear who goes through a lot of emotion stress.
The series can keep going, but I hope it is really done now. Might have been able to end this on book three, but Ujurak had to seek out the end of the journey, so they kept going. So let us hope it is done.
You got this far, then the rest will not be spoilers.
Ujurak was my favorite as he is a bear that can shape shift. Kept expecting a reveal that he is really a human, but he remains a brown bear to the end.
Toklo is my second favorite as a grizzly bear who gets hooked into guarding them all.
Lusa is the hear and also a favorite as a black bear.
Kallik is ok as a nurturing bear who goes through a lot of emotion stress.
The series can keep going, but I hope it is really done now. Might have been able to end this on book three, but Ujurak had to seek out the end of the journey, so they kept going. So let us hope it is done.
March 6, 2025
This is a perfect book for your child to read if you wish them to become a self-hating, woke blockhead. The book is loaded with mawkish cliches: humans are evil destroyers of the planet, especially “pale flat faces” (white people). Animals (bears!) are sensitive, moral creatures entitled to destroy humans and their property to “save” the world. The book culminates with the heroic bears tricking a heard of ox’s into destroying an oil well by stampeding it and causing an deadly avalanche. Not only do the ends justify the means, this act of bear-terror is officially approved by the “spirits in the sky.” What a wonderful world it would be if only all the “pale flat faces” could be exterminated. This is required reading for all future Ivy Leaguers!
January 1, 2021
I enjoyed the entire series, and book #6 pulled it together
Book #6 was able to pull it all together with a fitting ending, that creates the imagery of a new beginning. It inspires the reader with the undeniable sense that we are all connected, each of us imbued with purpose. Our ability to achieve purpose, at times is better accomplished with collective effort. We may look different, and have different cultural backgrounds, but at the core, we are more alike than different, and working together brings experience, and perspective to the table. Their individual insights makes the group stronger.
Book #6 was able to pull it all together with a fitting ending, that creates the imagery of a new beginning. It inspires the reader with the undeniable sense that we are all connected, each of us imbued with purpose. Our ability to achieve purpose, at times is better accomplished with collective effort. We may look different, and have different cultural backgrounds, but at the core, we are more alike than different, and working together brings experience, and perspective to the table. Their individual insights makes the group stronger.
December 25, 2023
Wow. This book left me deceased. I want to highlight some of my favourite moments.
- Ujurak playing with Kissimi.
- Yakone being a better "book boyfriend" (or whatever the hell people call it nowadays) than most human men I've read about.
- Ujurak's passing: Damn, was that a hard hitting moment, especially when he and Ursa were flying to the sky, finally back where he belongs thanks to his friends.
I love the found family trope between them. Erin Hunter never fails with that, whether it is with cats or bears.
On another note, I will definitely recommend this series to those just starting in the Xenomorph genre, especially those just starting with Erin Hunter.
Overall, my favourite of the series! I adored every minute of it, and even if I'm going to take a break from the series, I'm absolutely coming back for the second round!
- Ujurak playing with Kissimi.
- Yakone being a better "book boyfriend" (or whatever the hell people call it nowadays) than most human men I've read about.
- Ujurak's passing: Damn, was that a hard hitting moment, especially when he and Ursa were flying to the sky, finally back where he belongs thanks to his friends.
I love the found family trope between them. Erin Hunter never fails with that, whether it is with cats or bears.
On another note, I will definitely recommend this series to those just starting in the Xenomorph genre, especially those just starting with Erin Hunter.
Overall, my favourite of the series! I adored every minute of it, and even if I'm going to take a break from the series, I'm absolutely coming back for the second round!
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May 19, 2019
I bought this book thinking id read it in the car wth my grand kids on a very long car trip we recently took, but we didnt, its not usially the type of book i go for, but it was not a bad book. I quite enjoyed it. I didnt realize i was buying book 6 of a series about these bears but still it stood on its own very well and told a good story about 4 bears saving an island being destroyed by oil miners. A good read. I read it in a day and a half.
May 2, 2022
While I enjoyed this series, it wasn't quite as good as I had hoped. The entire purpose of the bears' journey is to wander around Canada until they reach Ellesmere Island and destroy an oil rig. I'd say the biggest downside is that this series really pushes a super-environmental-anti-industrialization message. Overall, I still like the bears and it was cool to read some books from the perspective of some animals that I had never read from before.
June 26, 2017
Even though this book was pretty fun and had pretty intense places in the book through the book it was kind of boring and wasn't very entertaining and i wouldn't recommend this series but i would recommend the Survivors series if ur into dogs and Survivors is a much much better series then the Seekers
January 23, 2020
The adventure is over! The final book of six, it was alright I was not disappointed by the ending I just think it wasn’t... amazing, the mission was always to save the wild, but saving one island is not the same. And the solution to save the island, in reality would only have delayed the inevitable. Overall I’d give this 4/5 nice but lacking.
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December 16, 2021
I won't be continuing with the secondary set/series, but I think this is a great children's series. It's got a Brother Bear feel to it, I mean I literally kept hearing the soundtrack to the movie in my head while reading, but also some great elements of wildlife preservation and an environmental message. I definitely recommend for the kiddos.
November 4, 2024
Thought the ending was pretty weak, but it did get slightly better as it continued on. Also, this series didn't have as much of a thread throughout and lacked a lot of loveable supporting characters and stories that normally make these series great. It was worth finishing though even though my daughter didn't make it.
August 10, 2021
The whole series was mostly journeying, which I’m not that in to. However, I still liked the characters and the bond between the bears. Overall I would recommend this book to anyone who likes bears and doesn’t mind a lot of journeying in stories.
November 28, 2017
I liked it but I hated the ending when Ujurak died. I was heartbroken.
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November 29, 2017
Every time I think I’ll be okay when it’s over but every time I find myself crying into the book.
June 11, 2018
I never did quite warm up to this series, but my son enjoyed it, so we read it together. It wasn't bad, I just didn't love it.
September 1, 2019
The end was also sad (because Ujurak died) 😭😭😭😭😭😭, but also happy! The actions weren't expected and that made the book so interesting!
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April 21, 2020
Ahh I loved this book so so much! I'm sad how it ended, but I'm so excited for the next book!
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