Spirit Singer
Edward Willett
- Narrator:
- Edward Willett
- Publisher:
- Self-Published
- Proof-listener:
- Elizabeth Medeiros
- Length:
- 4:32:55
- File Size:
- ~ 380 MB
- Share:
- Sample:
- Listen to first chapter
Description
Amarynth is a spirit singer, gifted–or cursed, as she sometimes thinks–with the ability to lead the spirits of the dead from the Lower World through the Between World to the Gate of the Upper World and the Light that lies beyond it.
While she is still an apprentice her grandfather and tutor dies, slain by a mysterious creature in the Between World that is blocking access to the Upper World’s Gate. Without a spirit singer her village cannot survive, so Amarynth embarks on a hazardous quest to find out what the creature is, how it can be defeated, and how she can become a full-fledged spirit singer — a quest that takes her not only from her tiny seacoast home to the soaring mountains of the south, but across the even more rugged terrain of her own soul.
First Line
Something woke Amarynth in the small hours of the night.Reviews
“…deserved the Saskatchewan Book Award it won. Aimed for the early to mid-teen group, Spirit Singer is a strong, well-written book with great adventure and sympathetic characters. Willett’s book has fast-paced adventure, sword-play, ghostly help, kidnappings, automatons who serve pure evil, royalty and brave commoners…Spirit Singer holds more than just solid characters and an exciting plot. It is about deception, both external and internal, in the eternal search for love and acceptance. It is about the need to accept oneself to be able to move forward and achieve great things and the need to be wise and discerning about others.”- Lynn (J.R.) Wytenbroek (Canadian Literature Magazine)“This is a fast-paced, spiritual quest book, full of narrow escapes, evil masquerading as good, good appearing in nasty people (just like in real life!), adventure, dreams and bits of wisdom. The writing is spare and the words well-chosen, so that complex characters and interesting places emerge full-blown in the reader’s mind, and the plot moves apace. I felt always in the story, and not a mere spectator/reader. Written for teenagers, but this 50-something guy had a great time.”- David Waltner-Toews “Clearly defined characters, setting & plot carry a reader eagerly from page to page through adventure-filled chapters that deftly conclude with cliff-hangers…The plot is fast-paced and clever, the writing never disappoints and the author clearly keeps his target audience in mind. A great read from start to finish.”- Shirlee Matheson (reviews from the 2002 Saskatchewan Book Awards jurors)
“…a fun novel with engaging characters and having all the basic elements of a good fantasy…young readers would likely get much more out of this book in terms of good succinct plotting and writing than they’d ever be likely to from the droves of role-playing game tie-ins and fat fantasy trilogies.”- Georges T. Dodds (SF Site)
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Iambik Audio ISBN: 9781927472262Iambik Audio Publication Date: Jan 08, 2013
Print ISBN: 9781927472262
Print Publication Date: Mar 8, 2012
Audio Distribution Rights: Worldwide
Keywords/tags: adventure, fantasy, female heroine, friendship, ghosts, heroism, magic, quests, spirits, young adult