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The Song of the Forgotten Stars #2
The Wisdomfold Path
Turning seventeen should be a happy occasion, but for Princess Tariana Osono, it is anything but. Even though her arrival on the mysterious planet Xonareth – along with her younger sister, Margeth, and their enigmatic ship’s navigator, Lt. Rasharri – has freed that world from a ten-thousand year exile from the stars, they have still not found a way home, thousands of light-years across the galaxy.
Meanwhile, Xonareth’s last two remaining cities face a new danger. As they struggle to restore the quickly-dying Cintronia crystals that are their only source of power, a shadowy movement emerges, dedicated to severing Xonareth’s last ties to the long-fallen Arrilori Star Empire. Led by a mysterious woman known only as Yarreen, this movement will drive wedges into families, set brother against brother, and test Tariana’s newfound powers and legacy as a Stardancer like never before. And when the darkest moments come, the key to Xonareth’s future may lie not within Tariana, but within Margeth, whose own path to an uncertain destiny is just beginning to unfold.
Continuing the story begun in STARDANCER, THE WISDOMFOLD PATH is a tale of sisters and brothers, of children and parents, of secrets and history, of lies and truths, of loss and love, of despair and hope...and of a ten-year-old girl rising above herself in ways she never thought possible.
Meanwhile, Xonareth’s last two remaining cities face a new danger. As they struggle to restore the quickly-dying Cintronia crystals that are their only source of power, a shadowy movement emerges, dedicated to severing Xonareth’s last ties to the long-fallen Arrilori Star Empire. Led by a mysterious woman known only as Yarreen, this movement will drive wedges into families, set brother against brother, and test Tariana’s newfound powers and legacy as a Stardancer like never before. And when the darkest moments come, the key to Xonareth’s future may lie not within Tariana, but within Margeth, whose own path to an uncertain destiny is just beginning to unfold.
Continuing the story begun in STARDANCER, THE WISDOMFOLD PATH is a tale of sisters and brothers, of children and parents, of secrets and history, of lies and truths, of loss and love, of despair and hope...and of a ten-year-old girl rising above herself in ways she never thought possible.
385 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 23, 2015
About the author
Kelly Sedinger
6 books24 followersI live near Orchard Park, NY with my family: my beautiful wife, wonderful daughter, two typical cats, and one very odd (and newly adopted as of September 2014) retired racing greyhound. Luckily I have my own book room to which I can retreat!
In addition to reading and writing, I love long walks, riding my bike, and am passionate about music. I also have an odd quasi-obsession with bib overalls. If you see a long-haired fellow in a Buffalo-area cafe or library, wearing overalls and banging away on a laptop, there's a good chance that's me!
My online presence is as follows: Official author site, http://forgottenstars.net; personal blog, http:byzantiumshores.blogspot.com; Twitter and Instagram @Jaquandor.
In addition to reading and writing, I love long walks, riding my bike, and am passionate about music. I also have an odd quasi-obsession with bib overalls. If you see a long-haired fellow in a Buffalo-area cafe or library, wearing overalls and banging away on a laptop, there's a good chance that's me!
My online presence is as follows: Official author site, http://forgottenstars.net; personal blog, http:byzantiumshores.blogspot.com; Twitter and Instagram @Jaquandor.
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January 30, 2016
The second book of Kelly Sedinger's Song of Forgotten Stars series finds us on the planet Xonareth some months after the events of the first book, Stardancer. The two young Princesses of Gavinar are settling into a new life on this alien planet when things go terribly awry. The power sources for the two cities that house the entire population of the planet fail catastrophically, throwing the populace into chaos. The princesses, accompanied by their chaperon, former star pilot Rasharri, and a team of locals appointed by the King, must travel to the other side of the world, in a desperate race against a surprise villain, in an attempt to solve the mystery of the failing power systems, and save the world.
As in the first book, Sedinger successfully draws us in to his story with compelling, likable characters, and hints of much larger story yet to be told. The universe of the story has a history both older and grander than the protagonists have ever imagined, and they (and we) learn about it in dribs and drabs of information revealed by clues they discover a little at a time. I have totally bought in, and cannot wait for the next installment of the series.
The only small drawback for me, was in the technical aspects of the book. In what I found to be a little bit of irony, Sedinger thanks his proof readers in his afterword, but this book was marred by dozens of little errors that should have been caught by those readers. Simple things, like the wrong word in the wrong place ('heart' instead of 'heard,' for example), not caught by a spell check routine, are what authors depend on proof readers to find. Or the same adjective appearing at the beginning and end of the same sentence. I found more than a dozen instances of these types of little errors, that served to pull me out of the narrative at times, giving the book a slightly unprofessional feel. In their defence, I can only suggest that the proof readers were so engaged in the story that they forgot why they were reading the book in the first place. It certainly engaged me enough to pull me through those instances and back into the story.
I purchased Stardancer as a courtesy to an internet acquaintance. I purchased The Wisdomfold Path because I enjoyed the first book, and wanted to read more. I will purchase the third book for the same reason. I'm enjoying reading this story. Without those little proofing errors, I would have rated this book a four out of five. With them, I backed it off to a three.
As in the first book, Sedinger successfully draws us in to his story with compelling, likable characters, and hints of much larger story yet to be told. The universe of the story has a history both older and grander than the protagonists have ever imagined, and they (and we) learn about it in dribs and drabs of information revealed by clues they discover a little at a time. I have totally bought in, and cannot wait for the next installment of the series.
The only small drawback for me, was in the technical aspects of the book. In what I found to be a little bit of irony, Sedinger thanks his proof readers in his afterword, but this book was marred by dozens of little errors that should have been caught by those readers. Simple things, like the wrong word in the wrong place ('heart' instead of 'heard,' for example), not caught by a spell check routine, are what authors depend on proof readers to find. Or the same adjective appearing at the beginning and end of the same sentence. I found more than a dozen instances of these types of little errors, that served to pull me out of the narrative at times, giving the book a slightly unprofessional feel. In their defence, I can only suggest that the proof readers were so engaged in the story that they forgot why they were reading the book in the first place. It certainly engaged me enough to pull me through those instances and back into the story.
I purchased Stardancer as a courtesy to an internet acquaintance. I purchased The Wisdomfold Path because I enjoyed the first book, and wanted to read more. I will purchase the third book for the same reason. I'm enjoying reading this story. Without those little proofing errors, I would have rated this book a four out of five. With them, I backed it off to a three.
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