Book Review - SEEKERS by R.A. Denny

This is the second in the Mud, Rocks, and Trees series, young adult stories about several types of humans living on a world conflicted by xenophobia. Each species hates and/or fears each of the others. The "normal" humans want to get rid of the mud people, a species with duck-type feet ideal for living around mud and water. The mud people are afraid of the humans and really don't know what to think about those scaly rock folks--they hybernate during the hot months, curling up in a nearly impenetrable ball to sleep. But the rock people think the tree people must be not even human at all--more like birds with their flaps of skin stretching from hand to feet enabling them to glide from one tree to the next. The tree people are terrified of the humans. They feed the huge lions they ride with dead flyers.

And then there are the lormonkeys--the big apes that swing with their long arms from branch to branch, and their bites carry deadly poison.

But a few of the "normal" humans, worshipers of Adon, the One God, have made friends with individual representatives of each human species, telling them about a star that will appear--and when it does, that representative must travel to Tsoladia and meet with each of the other representatives.

This book follows Brina of the tree people, Amanki of the mud people, and Moshoi of the rock people. They've each seen the star and begun their journey, but the going is rough and dangerous. Of course.

Available from Amazon and Barnes and Noble, and well worth the price. It's written for young folks, but I still haven't outgrown my love of these YA adventures--have you?

I was given a free copy of this book by the author, but the opinions expressed here are my own--uninfluenced by avarice or favor.