From the author of Ender’s Game, the soon-to-be major motion picture!A powerful secret. A dangerous path.Rigg is well trained at keeping secrets. Only his father knows the truth about Rigg’s strange talent for seeing the paths of people’s pasts. But when his father dies, Rigg is stunned to learn just how many secrets Father had kept from him–secrets about Rigg’s own past, his identity, and his … own past, his identity, and his destiny. And when Rigg discovers that he has the power not only to see the past, but also to change it, his future suddenly becomes anything but certain.
Rigg’s birthright sets him on a path that leaves him caught between two factions, one that wants him crowned and one that wants him dead. He will be forced to question everything he thinks he knows, choose who to trust, and push the limits of his talent…or forfeit control of his destiny.
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Card’s stories always involve subtle and very creative magic: he tends to choose abilities I’ve never seen done before, and then proceeds to explain them pseudo-scientifically, or at least logically within the framework of the world he creates. I love that about his worlds. This story was quite ambitious, encompassing some eleven thousand years, …
Once you get inside this world, you never really want to leave, and there’s no way to predict where Orson is really going with this story. The characters feel real, the world feels real and it’s cleverly written.