Pathfinder
Books | Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / General
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Orson Scott Card
From Orson Scott Card, the internationally bestselling author of Ender’s Game, comes the first novel in the Pathfinder trilogy, the riveting story of Rigg, a teenager who possesses a special power that allows him to see the paths of people’s pasts.A powerful secret. A dangerous path. Rigg is well trained at keeping secrets. Only his father knows the truth about Rigg's strange talent for seeing the paths of people's pasts. But when his father dies, Rigg is stunned to learn just how many secrets Father had kept from him—secrets about Rigg's own past, his identity, and his destiny. And when Rigg discovers that he has the power not only to see the past, but also to change it, his future suddenly becomes anything but certain. Rigg’s birthright sets him on a path that leaves him caught between two factions, one that wants him crowned and one that wants him dead. He will be forced to question everything he thinks he knows, choose who to trust, and push the limits of his talent…or forfeit control of his destiny.
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Author
Orson Scott Card
Pages
662
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2011-10-04
ISBN
1416991794 9781416991793
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"4.5 stars. I’m reminded how much I enjoy spec fic, reading this. Engaging, if at times convoluted due to the time-travel dimension. Card plays with SF tropes in fun ways and lends fantasy and SF enjoyably. I wish this wasn’t YET ANOTHER book where 98% of the characters are male (female characters are basically weak, background, and/or evil). Also the “characters are exceptional humans” trope is kind of overdone, though I forgive Card here because he does manage to (if a bit inconsistently) make the protagonists a bit flawed. I love what he did with the limited perspectives of each character. Enough was explained that I figured out a key “mystery” about halfway through or less, which made it fun to be able to see how some of the choices the characters made fit in with the big meta narrative. I want to finish this series."
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Teresa Prokopanko