SuitabookThe seer and the sword
Victoria Hanley
- Reading
- Consider reading alongside the child or teenager, or checking in after the conquest and later confrontations. Focus on consent, power and moral responsibility rather than treating combat as the only form of courage.
- Themes
- Violence and responsibility: Landen trains as a warrior while struggling with revenge and the consequences of failing to oppose evil with force. The book leaves its stance open to more than one reading.
- Power and liberation: Archeld conquers Bellandra, and Torina receives Landen as a slave before freeing him; the pair later use assumed identities. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Prophecy and agency: Torina discovers that she is a seer through a crystal and later serves as a seer while political dangers develop around her. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- Be ready to discuss conquest, enslavement, bullying, murder, revenge, assassination plots, battles and deaths.