![]() ![]() ![]() Such books generally annoy me, especially when they're the first of the series. Honestly, it looks like Card may have just cu the book in parts, since Seventh Son by itself doesn't really come to a climax, it just sort of ends at what would have been a section break in many other books. On the downside, this is very obviously the first book of a series. Towards the end, he manages to heal what should have been a deadly injury. He already has hints of that power, although he doesn't seem to completely realize it at first. As such, he's apparently been hunted by a powerful evil being-the Unmaker-his entire life. Things aren't named quite as we know them, which at times gets annoying.Īs the seventh son of a seventh son, Alvin Maker Jr is destined to be a Maker, a particularly powerful user of the story's magic. Possibly because of that, American history hasn't gone quite as we remember it. It seems to be based on any number of folk magics turned real and powerful-but apparently only in the New World. It's set in early 1800s somewhere around what would have been Indiana or Ohio in our world, except in this world magic is real. The world if Seventh Son is fairly fascinating. ![]()
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