![]() Finally, Tal finds the Icecarls, a group of people he had never heard of-non-magical people who live on the ice. Tal even ignores protocol and tries to secure a Sunstone from the Empress, with disastrous results. He tries to win it, but when his talent is foiled by the evil Sushin. This first book focuses on Tal’s attempts to secure a new Sunstone for the family. With sunstones and magic shadows that change shape in helpful and sinister ways, to magic involving light and sound, to a caste system with more hidden beneath the surface than Tal could ever expect, the author establishes a new and intriguing world. ![]() But everything seems to have turned against Tal: his cousins are indifferent at best, one of the authority figures does everything in his power to ruin Tal’s chance for success, and Tal’s siblings are too young to be of help.įor a middle-grade reader, this book is a “gateway” novel to the world of fantasy. But with his father missing, his family is in need of a Sunstone, a magical stone that provides light and warmth to the family, and allows them entrance to a forbidden part of his world, which consists of a castle of seven towers. His father is missing and presumed dead, his mother is gravely sick, and his two siblings depend on him. This is the first book in a series, a middle-grade fantasy novel following the life of Tal, a boy who wakes to find his whole world changed. ![]()
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