Sweep: Seeker, Origins, and Eclipse: Volume 4 Paperback – July 7, 2011

This series is powerful. It's dedicated to a purpose and in meeting that purpose, it looks at reality in real ways. Certainly, there are fictional elements sewn throughout, but the underlying human needs are bared for us, and we are given ways to proceed in our own lives (or the lives of those we love). This particular volume (3 books) is kind of a surprise compared to the rest of the volumes, which so closely monitor the main protagonist's life on her single path. It takes one back a little, and yet opens up the tunneled world we've been spiraling in so far. This volume reaches beyond Morgan to identify others around her and how different their needs are from hers--even though they are all three on the same path and an integral part of each others lives before that moment. After reading these 3 books, the reader begins to see how their paths will branch out from each other. It's an intriguing and entertaining introduction to the future we glimpse in Volume 5.

I have loved this series for a long time after finding it in my local library as individual novels. I like having the series condensed, but I would also be okay with the individual books. Again, I love the series, and I definitely recommend purchasing these books. The book designs are also pretty interesting.

As was the last this one is also getting more hard to follow. It is keeping to the story but also basing out a new concept that I had no clue to where it was leading me.I seriously thought that it would have ended by now and that I would just be reading through this and being annoyed at having read so many of the Volumes that there could be nothing left to say. I was WRONG! Oh so very wrong indeed.While everything seems to be getting jumbled and tousled from one point to the next and finally everything adding all up and clicking together then just to fall apart at the end of another very messed up cliffhanger.

My daughter loves this series so much that I'm using it as a treat to give her when she is done with her summer reading for school! It's hard to find in bookstores (if you can even find a bookstore these days).

This is a YA book. I have to say I am loving the whole series. I gives you gripping edges, love, romantice, fighting. I is great.

Wow. I was not expecting a point of view change with Seeker (#10). It seems like a rather abrupt move. Maybe the author had nothing else to say from Morgan's point of view. I guess she couldn't come up with anything interesting enough (like we saw what had happened in The Changeling and Strife) so she decided to try a different tactic. It was getting a little tiresome listening to Morgan's constant mundane life, hearing about her constant Wiccan problems with her family, falling behind in school, not keeping her promises, not fully explaining things to Mary K. so that her sister would understand what was happening to Morgan. I really think that the author ran out of steam in her effort to write about Morgan after The Calling. It was like she had no real concrete ideas about how to write about an important event and then how to successfully end it. Who knows. Maybe reading this series from Hunter's point of view will lead to more interesting tales in the rest of this series.The book begins with Hunter now repeating information about Practical Magick and Morgan. We get a full description of what Morgan looks like (like we don't know after nine books?). Sigh... Each book is under 190 pages (actually Seeker is 172 pages, Origins is 188 pages and Eclipse is 184 pages) so my guess about filling these books with repetitive information to increase the word count probably is not wrong.In the same note of repetitive information, the author writes six times in seven pages about how Hunter has not seen his parents in eleven years. Really? Six times? (I finished Seeker and there were at least fourteen times the author told us that there was an eleven year gap since Hunter had seen his parents/father. I guess the author really needed to stress this information.I did like the book from Hunter's point of view, as it did provide a fresh look into the series. However, I was a bit disappointed over the outcome of Hunter actually finding the location of his parents and being offered the chance to go and see them. This is all he talked about for many books: how he never knew what happened to them, didn't know why they left him and his siblings, whether they were alive or dead, etc. Now, here is his big reunion and it just turned out to be a depressing affair.Justine, the new character introduced to the story, is a witch who is using dark magic to obtain true names of people. We learn this from her diary entries. It is here that I have decided that I do not like the diary entries that tell us about the characters before the main characters get to know them. It takes away from the story by limiting the surprise the reader gets when faced with a big reveal. When the main character finally finds out something that the reader has known all along, it's no big deal. I had no reaction when Daniel (Hunter's father) told Hunter that Justine was getting her information from the spirits. I predict that Justine is going to find out Hunter's true name and use it against him somehow - maybe make him a slave or find a way to control him because her diary entry indicates that she is not finished with Hunter.I definitely was intrigued to learn about Kennet and the information he withheld from Hunter. I wonder how Hunter will handle this information in the next book.Origins (book #11) was fantastic!! This story was so well written that I devoured that book in one day. Rose MacEwan was a sympathetic character that always thought that she was doing the right thing, even when her mother cautioned her to do the opposite. I had wondered if Diarmuid was spelled in the end because his actions were completely opposite of those from when he met and secretly courted Rose. I actually felt her love, betrayal and her wrath bubbling up inside of her as she connected with what she thought was the Goddess to help her release her power. The spell wasn't meant to flow out of her like a dark wave and she never intended it to decimate an entire village. She only wanted the Goddess to strike those who harmed her threefold. This is a book that I would definitely reread.Eclipse (book # 12) brings us back to Morgan's point of view but then, out of nowhere, we are suddenly thrown into Alisa's point of view. I was confused when I started the chapter because it sounded like Morgan but Morgan would not use her sister's full name and refer to her as a friend. I had to reread the first couple paragraphs before I realized that it was actually Alisa.I was a bit disappointed in the handling of Ciaran. I thought that it would have been better if he was part of the dark wave that was heading to Widow's Vale. It just seemed anticlimactic to take him out of the picture and then have the witches try to take out the dark wave.Though the ending seemed a bit rushed, Eclipse was a great book. Morgan's character started to act more mature, like she did in the first volume and the main characters felt well developed and full of life.I give Volume 4, 4 stars.

I have books 1-9, it's been almost a year since I bought anymore, this was so much cheaper and a exactly what I wanted. Three books at once, for the price of one. This made me happy. I just got the book in the other day, so I'm still reading on it, but the story line proves promising.

these are a good set of volumes very addicting to read cant wait for the fifth volume to come out anxious but dreading the end of this series it would be really great if this set of volumes became movies :D i truly recommend them ;D

Bon livre

Great series designed for the teens, but as a good friend once said, teen books have got to be good to keep a teen away from all the other tempations that they have in their lives..

Auch dieses Volume beinhaltet drei Teile der Sweep-Reihe (Seeker, Origins, Eclipse). In Seeker hat Hunter das Wort. Aus seiner Sicht erfährt der Leser, wie das Wiedersehen mit seinem lange verschollenden Vater verläuft. Man erfährt mehr über seine Ansichten, Werte und vor allem kann man sich ein Bild von seinen Gefühlen für Morgan und seine Familie machen.In Origins lesen Morgan und Hunter im Prolog das Buch der Frau, die die Dark Wave (= dunkle Welle) im Schottland des 16. Jahrhunderts erschaffen hat. Dem Prolog folgend wird aus Rose McEwans Sicht erzählt, was sich ereignet hat, das die junge Frau dazu gebracht hat, so schreckliche Magie anzuwenden. Eine bewegende Geschichte.Bei diesen beiden Geschichten handelt es sich mehr um Spin-offs der Serie, als um die eigentliche Geschichte. Man kann die restlichen Sweep-Bücher auch ohne diese zwei lesen - allerdings sind sie wundervoll geschrieben und bieten tolle Hintergrundinformationen (vor allen Dingen Origins). Normalerweise bin ich kein Fan von plötzlichen Sichtwechseln und Spin-offs, in diesem Fall habe ich es aber sehr genossen.In Eclipse geht die eigentliche Story weiter. Alisa findet das Book of Shadow (= Buch der Schatten) ihrer Mutter und erfährt, dass sie eine Blood Witch (=Bluthexe) ist. Ciaran, Morgans echter Vater, taucht wieder auf und schickt eine Dark Wave nach Widows Vale. Verzweifelt versuchen Morgan, Hunter, Daniel und Alisa das Unglück aufzuhalten.Hier wird abwechselnd aus Morgans und Alisas Blickwinkel geschildert. Auch Alisas Charakter und Geschichte sind interessant und bietet eine neue Sicht auf Morgan und Wicca.

I'm a big Sweep fan and I love every single book of the series. Beware though, some of these books are not written from the point of view of the main character (Morgan). This fact can be a little disappointing at first but I promise they are just as good as the others.The book itself is quite thick yet extremely lighweight and convenient to carry with you.It's also cheaper since you get 3 books for the price of one.

Brilliant book