Seeker | Book Review

Title: Seeker

Series: The Seeker Series (Book 1)

Author: Amy Reece

Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal

Summary: Ally has psychic visions and she keeps having visions of bad shit happening to a classmate and then other stuff happens I suck at summaries

Rating: 8/10 pretentious quotes about telling the truth

Review: I was surprised with Seeker. It does follow a lot of YA tropes (mean popular girl, troubled bad boy, plain Jane female lead) but the book makes up for it by having a lot of humor and being self aware. There were multiple times that I was reading something and thought "that's ridiculous"  but then a character would point out the ridiculousness immediately afterwards. Ally, for the most part, is an alright heroine. Her constant crying gets annoying after a while and she makes really stupid decisions a lot of the time. I mean, REALLY stupid decisions. For example, instead of going directly to a girl who she knows is being abused, and getting help as soon as possible, she wastes time joining the cheerleading squad and trying to wiggle her way into that girl's inner circle. This girl's life is in danger and Ally acts like it's not as big of a deal as it really is.

Ally's personality is good, she's funny and entertaining, but I still feel like she's a bit immature. Which is a problem because she's fallen into insta-love with the Typical Troubled Bad Boy. They're at the "I love you" stage within a handful of weeks. The Typical Troubled Bad Boy tells Ally he was arrested for drug use and she doesn't even ask what drug(s) he had? Any rational person who is trying to have sex with someone, and who claims to love them, is going to know about their drug use past. Drug use can spread diseases if certain drugs are involved. If the Typical Troubled Bad Boy had told her it was just marijuana, then Ally would have been in the clear because it's harmless. But if he told her it was heroine, HIV can be spread through needles and there could be a chance that he has it, yet she's trying to have sex with him?? Do you see where I'm going with this? Realistically, it was probably just marijuana and the Typical Troubled Bad Boy doesn't have HIV, but still, I wish we could have characters who know how to be responsible.

Another thing I wasn't particularly fond of was the ending. I felt that it wrapped up too fast. We'd spent the entire novel building up to the climax and it's over in a few pages. It was like the author was already focused on book 2 and needed to get through book 1 as quickly as possible.

Despite the gripes I have with Seeker, I was entertained by it. It's funny, interesting, and Ally is a solid, yet reckless, heroine. I recommend picking it up (it's free on Amazon kindle!)

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