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    Burning Light: The Seventh World Trilogy, #2
    Burning Light: The Seventh World Trilogy, #2
    Burning Light: The Seventh World Trilogy, #2
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    Burning Light: The Seventh World Trilogy, #2

    By Rachel Starr Thomson

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    When they see beyond the sky
    When they know beyond the mind
    When they hear the song of the Burning Light:
    Take these Gifts of My Outstretched Hand,
    Weave them together.
    I shall come.

    After five hundred years of oppression, the Seventh World is beginning to wake to the realities of the unseen world behind the Veil. The rise of the Gifted heralds the return of the King of ancient days—but evil is also waking. Aware that their control is beginning to slip, the Order of the Spider sets out to convert the Gifted or destroy them.

    Among those caught in the conflict are Nicolas Fisher, a young Gypsy running from the past, and Maggie Sheffield, driven underground in the city of Pravik. Others also stand against the Blackness: the young chieftain Michael O'Roarke, the mysterious healer called Miracle, and the indomitable rebels of Pravik.

    As the world takes sides, their lives will play an integral role—in the coming of light, or the triumph of darkness.

    Burning Light is the second book in The Seventh World Trilogy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLittle Dozen Press
    Release dateDec 11, 2015
    ISBN9780973959116
    Burning Light: The Seventh World Trilogy, #2
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    Rachel Starr Thomson

    Rachel Starr Thomson is in love with Jesus and convinced the gospel will change the world. Rachel is a woman of many talents and even more interests: she’s a writer, editor, indie publisher, singer, speaker, Bible study teacher, and world traveler. The author of the Seventh World Trilogy, The Oneness Cycle, and many other books, she also tours North America and other parts of the world as a speaker and spoken-word artist with 1:11 Ministries. Adventures in the Kingdom launched in 2015 as a way to bring together Rachel’s explorations, in fiction and nonfiction, of what it means to live all of life in the kingdom of God. Rachel lives in the beautiful Niagara Region of southern Ontario, just down the river from the Falls. She drinks far too much coffee and tea, daydreams of visiting Florida all winter, and hikes the Bruce Trail when she gets a few minutes. A homeschool graduate from a highly creative and entrepreneurial family, she believes we’d all be much better off if we pitched our television sets out the nearest window. LIFE AND WORK (BRIEFLY) Rachel began writing on scrap paper sometime around grade 1. Her stories revolved around jungle animals and sometimes pirates (they were actual rats . . . she doesn’t remember if the pun was intended). Back then she also illustrated her own work, a habit she left behind with the scrap paper. Rachel’s first novel, a humorous romp called Theodore Pharris Saves the Universe, was written when she was 13, followed within a year by the more serious adventure story Reap the Whirlwind. Around that time, she had a life-changing encounter with God. The next several years were spent getting to know God, developing a new love for the Scriptures, and discovering a passion for ministry through working with a local ministry with international reach, Sommer Haven Ranch International. Although Rachel was raised in a strong Christian home, where discipleship was as much a part of homeschooling as academics, these years were pivotal in making her faith her own. At age 17, Rachel started writing again, this time penning the essays that became Letters to a Samuel Generation and Heart to Heart: Meeting With God in the Lord’s Prayer. In 2001, Rachel returned to fiction, writing what would become her bestselling novel and then a bestselling series–Worlds Unseen, book 1 of The Seventh World Trilogy. A classic fantasy adventure marked by Rachel’s lyrical style, Worlds Unseen encapsulates much of what makes Rachel’s writing unique: fantasy settings with one foot in the real world; adventure stories that explore depths of spiritual truth; and a knack for opening readers’ eyes anew to the beauty of their own world–and of themselves. In 2003, Rachel began freelance editing, a side job that soon blossomed into a full-time career. Four years later, in 2007, she co-founded Soli Deo Gloria Ballet with Carolyn Currey, an arts ministry that in 2015 would be renamed as 1:11 Ministries. To a team of dancers and singers, Rachel brought the power of words, writing and delivering original narrations, spoken-word poetry, and songs for over a dozen productions. The team has ministered coast-to-coast in Canada as well as in the United States and internationally. Rachel began publishing her own work under the auspices of Little Dozen Press in 2007, but it was in 2011, with the e-book revolution in full swing, that writing became a true priority again. Since that time Rachel has published many of her older never-published titles and written two new fiction series, The Oneness Cycle and The Prophet Trilogy. Over 30 of Rachel’s novels, short stories, and nonfiction works are now available in digital editions. Many are available in paperback as well, with more released regularly. The God she fell in love with as a teenager has remained the focus of Rachel’s life, work, and speaking.

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      After reading Worlds Unseen, I was curious as to how the battle would proceed, curious to know more about the Council of Worlds Unseen, more about the Gifted, and more about the past as was shown in the italic sections of the first one. And I rather liked Maggie so I wanted to see what happened to her.Burning Light is on one hand like reading the same thing over, on the other hand totally different, but what really irritated me was that it was just... waiting. It didn't seem to me that anything was happening.It follows Nicholas while he saves Gypsies from persecution by the High Police.We sometimes see Maggie, and she sometimes randomly sings, where she is underground in Pravik where everyone is... waiting. They discover an underground colony which was kind of interesting, and kind of pointless.And it spends a whole lot of time on the Clann O'Roarke. Who are these people??? When it started talking about Michael O'Roarke (the main guy), I figured, ok, at some point it's going to tie him in to the main story.Keep waiting.You learn nothing more about the Gifted.Nothing more about the Blackness.Nothing more about the King, or creatures related to him mentioned in the first book. (There's a Lord of the Forest or something though.)You learn a little more about the Empire, as there are a couple random sections from the point of view of the Emperor. However, the hierarchy isn't explained... not much is.And you learn nothing more about the Council for Worlds Unseen or any of its members. They might well have never existed. Evelyn and the Lord guy don't show up at all in this book.Furthermore, I felt the writing in this book to be a bit sloppy. Finally, near the end of the book, something happens. I'm not sure what, exactly. The ending is heralded by a bunch of short dramatic sections and people weeping, and the final battle was... meh. At one point during the battle someone says something like 'we're losing the battle' and some shining character says 'no, it's just begun'... and I'm like, so what about all the brave people who just sacrificed their lives in hopes of a better world? They don't count?Then we get some soppy wrap-up for the lovers in the book -- I guess since Maggie doesn't have a romantic interest she doesn't need any mention.What started as an interesting story -- Maggie's interesting story, really -- has morphed into something all mystic-drama-tedious. I can't express my disappointment. I wish I had faith in the quality of the third book so I could finish the story, but I don't.(Read as a Nook ebook on an iPad.)

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