Wow! I haven’t had this much fun in a while. Six books in all. I was lucky to purchase the volume set. It includes all six books in two large volumes.
Complex society and complex plot. I’m amazed this is for teen readers. Brand new look at how fantasy could be. But I should of guess it would come from Garth Nix. If you want adventure and a new sense of magic you should read this series.
The story is set in a world that has been cast into darkness and you have two classes of people. Those who live in the castle that is tall enough to escape outside the darkness and those who live on the ground cast into darkness to live. The two main characters come for the class one from each. As there world collide they have to find a way to save each others families.
I know I’m terrible I should give more detail. Here is the review from amazon:
Tal, a Chosen of the Orange Order, is having the worst luck lately. Just when he is getting ready for the Day of Ascension–a day when all the 13-year-old Chosen from the Castle of Seven Towers enter the spirit world of Aenir–his father disappears with the family’s only primary Sunstone, which Tal needs for the ascension. Without it, he cannot enter Aenir and bind himself to a Shadowspirit–a kind of guardian being that serves as a friend and protector to the person it is bound to. And without a Shadowspirit, Tal will lose both his Chosen status and any hope of finding a cure for his mother’s mysterious wasting illness, a cure that can only come from Aenir. Tal tries to beg, borrow, and even steal a Sunstone. But his attempts fail, and in his final act of thievery, Tal is thrown off the Castle of Seven Towers by a powerful Shadowspirit Keeper and into an adventure beyond his imagining. –Jennifer Hubert
Here is a direct link to amazon for the first book:
