Summoner: The Outcast: Book 4

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An amazing book. My kid loved it

I’ve fallen in love with these books and you all need to read them! The Outcast is a prequel but I am glad I read the trilogy first. As I’ve already said I loved this book! It was great to be back in this world and get to see some of the adult characters in the trilogy as teenagers. Like the trilogy the book is fast paced and totally engrossing. I loved the world building, the friendships and the fierce female characters that we get to see. At the beginning of the story we see the main character Arcturus, who is a commoner, accidently summon a demon and discovering that he is a summoner, which until then is only an ability that nobles have. Because of his ability the king decides to send him Vocans academy to train him as a summoner. Arcturus is kind and brave and I loved reading this book from his point of view. His demon, Sacharissa is one of my favourite characters! She’s loyal and protective of Arcturus and goes above and beyond to help and protect him. She is absolutely adorable! I loved the relationship between her and Arcturus. This book deals with the social divide in society where the wealthy (nobles) think they are superior to the commoners. We do get to see that not all nobles are like this and Alice and Elaine are definitely my favourites! Elaine especially is probably one of my favourite characters throughout all the books. I loved how protective Arcturus was over Elaine but we also got to see that she is strong and brave and can take care of herself. As I said before one of the main themes throughout these books is friendship and The Outcast was no exception. It was the love of their friends that spurred the characters on to keep fighting to not give up. There isn’t much emphasis on couples and I loved that about these books. We see glimpses of it but the platonic friendships are much more emphasised.

This is the real beginning of the The Summoner series. I loved going back and reading how it all it began...and it starts with Arcturus who inadvertently summons a demon. Sound familiar? Well, this is the secret that the king and his court have been trying to keep secret...the secret that actually exploded with Fletcher in the Inquisition. No spoilers here. However, I do recommend that the you read the Summoner series first and then The Outcast. What I loved the most about Outcast was learning more about Arcturus... learning his history, discovering his strengths and weakness, the doubts, questions, his sense of survival and the mind battles he had within himself. Yes, we get to meet some of the “future old characters” in the series. We meet a very young Elaine Lovett, Othello’s father and other dwarves and Fletcher’s real parents. What more is there to say? The world was already built, the “new” old characters developed on their own and the story telling is fast paced and unfolds almost effortlessly with each turning page. All I had to do was sit back and enjoy the adventure...and I did.