![]() ![]() Help is dispatched at the insistence of five-year-old “torch” (a person who, among other things, can see the life forces of people and under certain conditions, their myriad alternate futures) Peggy Guester, who sees Alvin and Alvin’s possible future as a Maker. ![]() Because a seventh son must be born while the other six are alive, Vigor desperately clings to life until Alvin is born. Her son Vigor diverts the tree, but is mortally wounded in the act. The force sends a tree down the river to crush the wagon the pregnant Mrs. When they try to cross the Hatrack River, an unknown force tries to stop the as-yet-unborn Alvin being born – since Alvin would be the seventh son of a seventh son, therefore possessing incredible powers as a Maker. (Courtesty of )Īlvin’s family is migrating west. Yet even in the loving safety of his home, dark forces reach out to destroy him. In an alternate version of frontier America, young Alvin is the seventh son of a seventh son, and such a birth is powerful magic. Book Review : Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card ![]()
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