Worlds Unseen
Book 1 of the Seventh World Trilogy
by Rachel Starr Thomson
328 pages
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Released December 2007
Also Check Out: Burning Light (Book 2, coming December 2008), The Advent (Book 3, coming December 2009), Taerith
Who’s It For?
Young teens, early 20’s, younger kids who love to read, and adults who still love a good story. Fans of Narnia, Harry Potter, and other classic fantasy. People who like “clean” fantasy or fantasy with Christian undertones.
The Story
The Council for Exploration Into Worlds Unseen believed there was more to the world and its history than the empire had taught them. Treating ancient legends as history, they came a little too close to the truth. Betrayed by one of their own, the Council was torn apart before they could finish their work.
Forty years later, Maggie Sheffield just wants to leave the past behind. Memories of the Orphan House where she grew up are fading; memories of her guardians’ murder are harder to shake. When a dying friend shows up on her doorstep bearing the truth about the Seventh World–in the form of a written covenant with evil–Maggie is sent on a journey that will change her forever. Along with the Gifted gypsy Nicolas Fisher, who hears things no one else can, Maggie joins with the last surviving members of the Council and a group of eastern rebels led by a ploughman and a princess to discover the truth.
It won’t be easy. The Seventh World has long been controlled by the Blackness, and its monstrous forces are already on Maggie’s trail.
Readers Weigh In
“Wow, Rachel, oh my goodness…. wow. I fell in love with Worlds Unseen. I finished it a few moments ago, with tears in my eyes. It was really touching…and brilliant, and beautiful. The whole thing reminded me of a mix between C.S. Lewis, Ted Dekker, and Diana Wynne Jones, while being wholly different.”
“Your story is wonderful! You are such an artist and you paint such beautiful metaphors. I am in awe.”
“You have a gorgeous poetic way of putting things that’s incredible and enviable. I love the huge grand scale of things that your world runs on, yet your characters make it personal in such an amazing way.”
“I thought all of your characters were great! They were real, which is what I’ve always loved about your writing.”
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