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  • The Seventeenth Year

  • The World Walker, Book 3
  • By: Ian W. Sainsbury
  • Narrated by: Todd Boyce
  • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (323 ratings)
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The Seventeenth Year

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Summary

What if every choice you ever made had the power to reshape reality?

Joni, the daughter of World Walker Seb Varden, has never met her father. And the world he left behind has become a dangerous place for the last generation of Manna users. Mee and John insist Seb will return, but what if they're wrong?

Could it be possible she has none of Seb Varden's powers? Or might her abilities reveal themselves as she leaves childhood behind? In her 17th year, Joni will be forced to leave those she loves, face a great evil, and finally learn the truth about her father.

©2017 Ian Sainsbury (P)2017 Audible, Ltd

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Disappointed

What disappointed you about The Seventeenth Year?

I was looking forward to seb vardens story not his daughter.

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Even though its his daughter it's still a totaly new character. and its not continuing seb's story which i was looking forward to.

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A gory but exciting next chapter

Definitely the best book in the series so far. I really enjoyed this listen. Just be aware that this book is a lot more graphically violent than the first two. I listen to it while I'm walking my dog and the faces and grimaces I must pull while walking him listening to this must be a picture! Looking forward to the next book!

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Don't bother

The first book was good, second was ok, this was trash. This book contradicts the first in so many ways, it's painful.

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Love this series

Enjoyed this one more than the second. off to listen to the fourth. Perfect easy listening.

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run of the mill story, good for passing time

as with the previous books in this series of the performance can detract from the story but not overly so. I have read many stories and find myself thinking "oh that's just like in..." which makes the story feel like the author has mixed other books and media together to construct this story; it felt like Sim was based off of Lobsang from the long earth, and that Joanie's ability was straight out of Prince of Persia the sands of time. also Adam seemed to be a straight up rip off of agent 47 from the hitman series.

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Weak compared to first book

It feels like a filler book written to stretch out the series, there’s lots of annoying inconsistencies with the story and plot, everything is labored and dragged out and I found myself thinking just get on with it,

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Author ran out of story half way through


A bit disappointing after the first two books. This one began with promise but about halfway through the plotline just seem to stop. Seems like there was not enough story so he just waffled for a long time without making any progress at all.

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Didn't bother to start

Returned without even starting as I gave up with the first book in the series.

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took quiet a while to get into this one

seemed like a bit of a tangent to start with. took a while to get into the new characters. it was like a bit of a reset on the previous stories partly familiar and part new.

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Great

It's been a while since I read the first 2 "World Walker" books. However, when I picked this up I found myself slipping right back into this amazing world. About to start book 4 now.

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