Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Featuring: Silas Umber
336 pages ISBN: 1416991190 EAN: 9781416991199 Kindle: B00DA9PWY2 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Silas Umber has returned from Arvale, carrying a curse with
him. He's unleashed a malevolent huntsman who will stop at
nothing to get his prey. As his family and friends begin to
suffer the Huntsman's wrath, Silas must seek help from the
few who are still willing to help him: the dead of Lichport.
He must also look into his own past and the mystery
surrounding his birth if he has any hope of stopping the
Huntsman before the town of Lichport burns.
LYCH WAY by Ari Berk is the gripping conclusion to The
Undertaken Trilogy by Ari Berk. So often, conclusions
fail to live up to the first exciting book in a trilogy.
LYCH WAY does the extraordinary and not only satisfactorily
ends this vibrant and poignant series in a beautiful and
haunting manner, but it made me re-examine my initial
impression of the first two novels in the series. As the
story unfolds, elements from Death Watch and Mistle Child
can be seen in a new light and it completely changes how I
viewed certain characters. I love this complexity. The world
is seen in each book as Silas sees it. All the characters
and their motives are extensions of Silas's feelings and
thoughts. As he grows from a child who lost a parent, to
Undertaker, and then to Janus, his view of the world expands
and his understanding grows, allowing him to see beyond his
own need and thoughts. This is truly a coming of age story
that is not only reflected in the harrowing physical journey
Silas undergoes but through the masterful storytelling of
Ari Berk who captures the painful emotional growth of a
child transitioning to adulthood.
I highly recommend The Undertaken Trilogy but suggest
you do read them in order. Ari Berk's haunting prose will
pull you into the world of Lichport and the endlessly
fascinating death customs, but it will be his brilliant plot
that will have you re-reading The Undertaken Trilogy
in order to find all the clues and subtle hints to the
overarching story which concludes in LYCH WAY. The
Undertaken Trilogy has earned a place on my permanent
favorites shelf. It is a series I urge everyone to
read.
In the conclusion to the Undertaken trilogy that Publishers
Weekly called “a thought-provoking gothic fantasy,” Silas
must master his powers and confront a past that is anything
but dead.
Silas Umber has returned from Arvale, his family’s ancestral
home. Frantic to retrieve the shade of his beloved Beatrice,
he turns his back on the spectral chaos he has left behind,
unaware that the malevolence he unleashed has followed him
back to Lichport.
As his family and friends suffer and fall at the hands of
the vengeful Huntsman from Arvale’s sunken mansions, Silas
must reach deep into his complicated bloodline to summon
powers and wisdom beyond those required of a simple Lichport
Undertaker. But the dark and painful secrets of his birth
threaten to overwhelm him, and if he can’t lay the ghosts of
his own past to rest, Silas may lose everything and everyone
he has grown to love and worked to protect.
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