Seekers

So, by the means of my cousin(I would never waste money on it), I have obtained the first Seekers book, called The Quest Begins. An appropriate title, I suppose.

Well, let me tell you, I expected this book to be lame, and it didn't rise past my expectations. It was lame.

The whole thing is set up almost exactly like Warriors. In fact, I would call it a Warriors knock-off, if it weren't by the same authors. I just cannot believe that Vicky created this. Blah.

First of all, the book started out with Kallik, the polar bear, A.K.A the main character. She was with her family, which, not far into the book, get demolished, Taqqiq, her brother, and Nisa, her mother.

Then it went to Lusa, the black bear, who, I was surprised to find, lived in the zoo with her mother, Ashia, her father, King, and a random cub named Yogi(Ha ha), and another random bear named Stella. I started to think that it might be better than I expected.

Then Toklo happened.

Toklo is the brown bear, or the grizzly bear. He and his mother Oka, and his little brother Tobi, are traveling through the valley that they live in.

Tobi is a sickly little bear, and Toklo hates it that his mother is always making a huge fuss over him.

The mother abruptly decides that they need to go to the river to get salmon, so that the cubs don't die.

Long story short, Tobi dies on the way, and then Oka goes insane. At the river there aren't any salmon, because the bear spirits have been angry, or at least that's what everyone thinks.

Toklo is almost killed by a large male bear who wants to eat him, and Oka just leaves him, saying, "I can't do this. I can't watch my cubs die. I won't let it happen again." Then, to Toklo, "Leave me. Leave this territory. We're all going to starve here. If you're going to die, do it somewhere else, somewhere far away from me. Leave, and don't come back."

Yick.

Then, in Lusa's neck of the story, her mother gets sick very abruptly, then comes back very abruptly. Her father, King, who used to be in the wild, hates it to be mentioned, and gets all mean. Lusa runs away in search of the forest.

Kallik's mother is killed by Orcas, and Taqqiq is separated from her.

Thus begins our story.

The religion of the three bears varies slightly, but they all believe in 'bear spirits' that get trapped in various objects, stars, trees, rivers, ect.

This reminded me a lot of the disney movie Brother Bear, which was really dumb. If you don't believe me, go rent it and see.

Overall, I'd give Seekers about a 5 out of 10, and that's just because Vicky created it.

Until next time,

Ember