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of Sevenwaters is a novel that seems deceptively easy to love on the outside, but the novel that lies within the pages of the cover and its synopsis is harder to form an attachment to.
Now, that isn't to say that this story isn't beautiful and gripping, as every Sevenwaters tale is, for it is.
And yet, at the same time, despite its sea monsters and memory loss, despite its strangers and sea tides, Seer of Sevenwaters leaves something to be desired in the wake of its predecessors, each more stunning than the next.


Sibeal, unlike the past heroines, is not someone I found myself very attached to or interested in, On one hand, her journey is perhaps the most interesting, Sibeal finds herself with her elder sister, Clodagh, on the island where her cousin, Johnny, trains his men, It is her last summer before she becomes a druid and although her faith is strong and she is prepared, Ciaran sends her to spend the summer on the island nevertheless.
Within the first week she arrives, though, a ship is wrecked on the shore with only a few survivors, As Sibeal helps to care for the

man she names Ardal, she begins to realize that the man has lost his memory.
When he does finally regain it, though, the tale he has to tale is one so fantastical it is nearly impossible to believe.
And the journey Sibeal will take because of it will change her life, and her calling, forever,

Seer of Sevenwaters is, in some ways, one of the best novels Marillier has written, In the Sevenwaters Saga, it is the only novel so far that features a male perspective and seeing Ardals narration definitely helped the novel.
At the same time, though, it is probably the only book in the series that needs another narrator.
Sibeal is a strong character, fierce in her devotion to the gods and unwavering in her loyalty and love, Yet, as a druid, she is forced to be calm, to keep her emotions in check, and that shows through the dullness of her narration at times.
Furthermore, it is impossible to feel anything but distant and apart from Sibeal, While I sympathized with her warring feelings as she battled through an inner struggle between a life of physical love and a life of spiritual love, I cannot claim to have felt one with her as I did with each of the Sevenwaters women before.


Still, that hardly says much for this book is still stunning in every way, Ardal and Sibeals romance broke my heart, mostly because it is based on the most simple of human virtues, Kindness. Comfort. Peace. Understanding. Ardal and Sibeal hardly know one another, but through nursing him, Sibeal begins to realize that this is a man she can trust, one who will lend her his ear instead of his voice.
Ardal, too, begins to see Sibeal as a savior, of sorts, as a light during his dark times, In every way, they are a perfect complement to one another and their path to love is bittersweet, but rewarding.
It is with Ardal that Sibeal breaks from her stoic druid shell and in those scenes I felt a greater connection with her.
If only it was that Sibeal we saw throughout the entirety of the novel,

Sibeal aside, the strangers who are shipwrecked onto the island bring a story of their own and the eventual journey that occurs in the novel as a result of them is incredible.
In fact, Id go so far as to say that Seer of Sevenwaters is more plotbased than characterdriven.
A little like Son of the Shadows was, though not quite, Every scene in this novel builds to an eventual climax and the unraveling of a mystery is most unusual to see in a Marillier novel, but still extremely interesting and, as always, wellwritten.
I cannot deny, though, my favorite parts of this novel were the glimpses of Cathal, I almost feel guilty for falling in love with someone else's husband, but then I remember they're all fictional and all my guilt disappears.
From Heir to Sevenwaters, it was clear Cathal would play a large role in the rest of the series and his continued importance is a source of joy, for me at least.
I cannot wait to see how his character keeps growing and changing, especially in preparation for what I assume will be the final showdown with his father in the concluding novel of this series.


Sadly, I have to admit that Seer of Sevenwaters is perhaps the weakest, for me, of the series yet.
I enjoyed this novel immensely there is no denying that, but not as much as its predecessors, It was a chore to get through some chapters and, honestly, it was the secondary characters that shone in this.
Perhaps I am so harsh on Sibeal and her journey because I have seen Nessa, from Marilliers Wolfskin, undergo a similar inner battle and face that struggle with more depth than Sibeal was allotted.
Whatever it is, Seer of Sevenwaters is an essential novel for the series as a whole and its glimpses into important secondary characters Ciaran, especially make it an essential and worthy read.
It is hard to believe that I am nearly finished with this series, but I suppose that, at some point, all good things really must come to an end.
Sibeal has always known that she is destined for a spiritual life, and is committed to it with all her heart.
The only thing left for her to do before she enters the nemetons is to spend the summer visiting her sisters, Muirrin and Clodagh, on the northern island of Inis Eala.


But Sibeal has barely set foot on the island before a freak storm out at sea sinks a ship before her eyes.
In spite of frantic efforts, only three survivors are fished alive from the water, and one of them, a man Sibeal names Ardal, clings to life by the merest thread.


Life continues on the island, as it must, and Sibeal befriends Ardal as he begins to regain his health.
But it becomes clear there is something unusual about the three shipwrecked strangers, Why won't the beautiful Svala speak And what is it that the gravely ill Ardal can't remember or won't tell When a visiting warrior is found dead at the bottom of a cliff, and an attempt is made on Ardal's life, Sibeal finds herself a pawn in a deadly game.
The truth will be far more astonishing than she could ever have believed and the consequences for Sibeal unimaginable, Wow I don't even know where to begin with this one, . . First of all I'm really sorry to have rate a Marillier book astar, I didn't think it was possible but Seer definitely changed my mind on this so much so I'm not looking forward to the last Sevenwaters book and instead am more excited for her other series sitelinkShadowfell.


First of all the premise Seer of Sevenwaters isn't exactly very interesting, I know Marillier has a tendency to start her books very slow but seriously the quest that Felix and her embark on only starts in the last/of the book.
Most of the time the entire book is set in Inis Eala with Sibeal taking care of Felix and that's where the next problem lies, the romance between Sibeal and Felix is very strange, abrupt and not believable.
I like reading Marillier's romance so I was very disappointed to see how she developed their romance, It's almost instalove on Felix's part while I just couldn't understand what exactly Sibeal saw in Felix to fall in love with him to the point that she questioned her vocation.
The interactions in between the two just didn't make this believable he was comatose half the time! which lead me to the other problem was the two POV's were so similar that I couldn't tell whether it was Felix or Sibeal.
It's very tricky writing different first person POVs and trying to make them different people, Also while Sibeal as a character is interesting enough to hold her own book, Felix on the other hand is just boring.
Unlike Darragh who was missing a great deal from therd book but charming personality and ferocious tenacity made him a strong enough character despite having lack of scenes, Felix on the other hand is just not strong enough to be a romantic lead at all.
Absolutely forgettable.

Seer is overall a very disappointing sequel to the Sevenwaters series, In fact my favorite parts of the book involved seeing Cathal who plays a fairly large role and also seeing the old characters.
If you love Cathal and Clodagh well mostly Cathal, you may want to read Seer because it features him pretty heavily.


This book should have been renamed the book of Cathal emoing about his heritage with some romance between Sibeal and Felix somewhere out there.
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Tenía muchas ganas de leer esta quinta entrega por su protagonista Sibeal, un personaje que en los libros anteriores ya me llamaba la atención.

La principal pega en esta ocasión ha sido la lentitud de la primera mitad del libro, Los libros de Marillier son slowburns y normalmente disfruto mucho de ese ritmo pero en esta ocasión me pareció un poquito demasiado repetitiva esa primera mitad.

Lo que más me ha gustado es ver como los personajes de anteriores libros tienen también su papel en la trama general de la saga Sieteaguas, disfruto mucho viendo cómo les van las cosas.

A un paso del final de esta fantástica serie que me hace sentir como en casa, If there's even a chance Ms, Marillier reads her Goodreads reviews, I pray she doesn't read this one, What's below is my honest opinion, but I don't know how constructive it is, and I do actually feel concern that in this particular case, it would hurt the author.


As with the previous four, I had read this one before, Perhaps it's not fair to judge this work in my previous state of mind, having read the last four in the past two weeks, just as it wasn't fair to judge it the first time I read it, when it initially came out, as I was feeling harried and out of time at college maybe it was during summer classes.
Either way, it struck the wrong chord both times, and I think it's time to give up and say this is the weakest of those five books.
That the series is in decline, That this is a second trilogy, and as many second trilogies and second books, it's simply not as good as the first.


I can nod respectfully to Ms, Marillier, whom I know to be a fantastic author at her best, She wrote this when she was incredibly sick, and that it's a great story in itself shows her to be a master of novels, period.


But I have two major criticisms, and they're undoubtedly related, In a broader sense, this book, and probably the last as well, has lost the poetic quality of the original trilogy, something that elevated the books above mere novels and made them important and beautiful.
Perhaps if you try to continually tell the same story in the same way, it loses its beauty, I could theorize about it all afternoon, but as I seem to have no tea nearby, that seems like an exercise in misery.
The second problem I have is that I cannot summon a single care for Sibeal, whom I adored in the previous two books.
Had I cared for her, I might have cared for her story with Felix a little more, but I simply didn't.
Once the story with Svala is resolved, I no longer had any fixed drive to finish the novel, but obviously did so out of politeness.
Normally I don't need to like characters to care about a novel,

As a side note: I was moderately horrified by what this whole book seemed to say about women's choices regarding domesticity, or that being a mother was the highest calling a woman could aspire to.
Even wanting a children and a family, that was appalling, These books have lifted my eyebrows before, but never has it been so disturbingly parochial in its depiction of women past and present, especially given that the societies she details tend to be somewhat open to the idea of women walking in "traditionally" manly shoes.


And this brings me full circle as I say, my need to like her in order to enjoy the novel, and my strong feeling of dislike were partially because I felt the last two chapters, and indeed much of the book, were drowning in meritless sentimentality.
And that, I feel, is where the story lost its potent storytelling, magical style, Throw in a couple cliches, banalities, and "Say what" sentences could someone please tell me what new applications for her ability Sibeal learned on the trip to the island that hadn't already been revealed and I left the novel either utterly perplexed or apathetic.


I need only add that I wish the story had been well carried out, because as I felt with the novela about Fiacha, there is a great story crying to get out.
I've heard that the next book is the conclusion and it's about Maeve, This is all well and good, but I feel Sibeal's story could have easily been supplanted for a story about Eilis, who would hopefully have been a less lacklustre heroine than Sibeal, whom I desperately wanted to love as much as her predecessors.


I didn't mean for this review to go on quite so long, Thanks for sticking with me, “The divination showed a mission courage in the face of death the completion of a circle, the possibility of a goal achieved.
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What it didnt show waspages of total boredom and waste of time, By the Dagdas manhood, it is very problematic when the Author does not know when to finish a series and so it drags on and on and on to the detriment of the initial design and readers despair!

I begin to believe that sitelinkDaughter of the Forest is the only book in the Sevenwaters series above the average and thus the only one worth reading.
But usually, every series is like a dynasty, the farther down the line, the better the chance of begetting a monstrosity instead of a prince charming.


This time we are following the steps of Sibeal who is a seer about to enter the druid nemetons and thus pledge her life to celibacy, scholarly pursuits, and otherworldly issues.
Her mentor sends her to spend the last summer before her final pledge with her sisters on Inis Eala, which essentially is a tiny island brimming with young warriors.
You see where the whole thing is coming

“Fall in love with some strapping young warrior and allow my life to veer off its longintended course I would never let that happen.
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Here it comes! Just as you would expect, a young man lands on her path to the happily ever after.


Sibeal is yet another Liadanderivative with all that comes with this type of protagonist, She sees the world differently, she has powers that set her aside from mere mortals, on this ground she is given much more credit than she deserves, she is prone to fainting spells due to alleged fatigue and “being hard on herself” even though she is supposedly used to the druidic discipline and ascetic life and crying in dark corners for no reason whatsoever.
She is also immature and unstable, becoming unsettled or put off by s single remark uttered by a complete stranger.


Felix is yet another young male, rescued by destiny, nurtured to life, and battling internal darkness.
Also, he has amnesia. Aside from the gaps in his memory that initially shroud him in an appealing shroud of mystery, there is literally nothing interesting or unique about him.


The plot is so slow, that I swear continental drifts move at a faster pace, Felix is rescued at the beginning, and only in chapterhe makes first steps as a convalescent patient, Things start getting interesting around chapter, Obvious clues are ignored, selfevident conclusions are not arrived at until the very last possible moments, Any action is overtalked to death by verbosity,

Then there is the romance, Good romance requires two individuals whose interactions either result in sparkles flying the opposites attract or the from enemies to lovers or who need to grow and develop in order to remove the initial obstacles on their way to happiness.
The problem with the Seer of Sevenwaters is that there are absolutely no obstacles to be overcome,

Sibeal is basically a druidic version of a nun in the novitiate, She has made an informed decision to follow a certain path of life because of her sight but a the decision has not been final and b there are no reasons not to change it.
The life of selfdenial and prayer is quite artificially juxtaposed taking into consideration the druidic context with the bliss of marital carnal pleasures.
Felix is in love with her full stop, Nothing to add. Nothing to prevent what normally ensues, the whole drama is faked and artificial and thus, it is not surprising that all the dilemmas are dealt with in two pages.


In terms of how the story is presented, Ms Marillier developed her writing repertoire and so instead of the nauseating and repetitive angsty internal monologue of the leading female, you have a double dose of male and female reflections and altogether wallowing in selfpity.
There are the usual filler bit of reminiscing and retelling of what has already happened previously, plus the storytelling bits of Irish lore and fable.


The Seer of Sevenwaters has been awful the weakest of the whole lot so far, It nearly made me question whether I want to continue the series, even though it is the penultimate instalment.
I certainly would not recommend it to anyone outside the hardcore Marillier fandom,


Other Sevenwaters books:

, sitelinkDaughter of the Forest
, sitelinkSon of the Shadows
, sitelinkChild of the Prophecy
, sitelinkHeir to Sevenwaters
, sitelinkFlame of Sevenwaters.