The Seer (Truesight Trilogy #2)

The Seer by David Stahler Jr. is the second book in the Truesight Trilogy.

In Truesight, Jacob gains sight around his 13th birthday. The colony sees this as a mutation and tries to fix it. Instead of agreeing to the surgery to remove his sight, Jacob flees. He follows the path of his friend Delaney who left a couple of weeks before him.

Now his is wandering in the plains toward a signal that he thinks will lead him to Delaney. The first person he sees, his first Seer, is a man named Xander. Then he comes across a group of kids near his age.

Someone he comes across is bound to help him find Delaney. But what will Jacob think of the world of Seers? Are they as corrupt as the Truesight leaders led him to believe?

Stahler, David Jr. (2007). The Seer. New York: EOS.

Truesight (Truesight Trilogy #1)

Truesight by David Stahler Jr. is an interesting look at humanity.

Jacob lives in Harmony Station on the planet of Nova Campi. Harmony is a colony of the Truesight. The Truesight movement began at the end of the 21st century. Genetic alteration was common, but when a blind couple in Canada decided to ensure their offspring would also be born blind, the Seers in the world thought they were crazy. Now, almost a century later, there are Truesight colonies on many worlds.

Jacob is not the average kid. Like everyone who lives in Harmony, Jacob is blind. But just before his thirteenth birthday he starts to have headaches. At first he doesn't know what they might mean. Then he starts noticing a difference between the light and dark.

Jacob is learning to see. His brain is overriding the genetic marker for blindness. How will his community react to a Seer among them?

(Book two of the trilogy: Seer)

Stahler, David. (2004). Truesight. New York: EOS.