Here is what people are saying about Starsight, including two giants of sci-fi & fantasy, Piers Anthony and Spider Robinson:
“[Starsight]
is one powerful and imaginative fantasy adventure novel with many nice touches...there is magic galore, and challenge galore; nothing
comes easy. It's the first of a series, and it should do well if readers become aware of it.”
Piers Anthony
" After a millennia
of discovery and exploration, and especially the last century or two of strip-mining, you’d think the fantasy genre would be wrung
dry by now, leaving its writers with nothing to do but rewrite, presenting old ideas in newer clothes. Minnette Meador has begun
reinventing and redefining the field by page 30 of STARSIGHT, and hasn’t stopped by the final sentence. But there’s more than
just novel ideas going on, here; Meador also knows the unfakeable secret of keeping even newcomers turning the pages: care about your
characters so much it becomes infectious. This is a Typhoid Mary of a book, from a writer to watch."
Spider Robinson, co-author
with Robert A. Heinlein of VARIABLE STAR
"This story is stirring. It is a grand tale of unexpected heroes and psychopaths,
passionate love and responsible duty, farfetched spiritual hopes and suffocating religious despair. Minnette's writing is clear
and exciting, heartfelt, and often evocative. This smart page-turner will bubble your imagination and have you rooting for marvelous
characters that will stay in your heart."
Peter Joseph Swanson, Author of Hollywood Sinners, Hidden River
"I have never
been attracted to this genre, as I’ve always been grounded in reality and never had time for frivolity. But STARSIGHT is not frivolous…
the characters are richly human, and their struggle between good and evil ranks with the most creative in literature. I got used to
idea of superpowers real quick and now have a magic wand on my wish list. Minnette’s use of singing to invoke “the power” touched
my soul and added a unique component of beautiful sound to the reading. I never thought I’d feel comfortable living on a mystical
planet in an indefinite time period, but her descriptions not only took me there, they kept me there… like Homer’s Sirens."
Shirley
Howard, Author, Tales Out of School
"Meador has crafted a world as expansive and imaginative as any that have graced the pages
of fiction before. Her characters are embodied with real sinew, souls, and motives. They are never flat, and rise to a variety of
challenges and the full spectrum of human emotions. Meador is at her best when she shows how the characters of her powerfully prodigious
cast play off of one another, and how these connections and collisions help to further both the plot and the intrigue of Starsight.
This novel is truly NOT to be missed!" Luke Reynolds, Author A New Man and Inside Out and Outside In
Trenara never thought she would have to guide a student she loved to become a messiah, but it is the only way this second trial Starguider
can salvage her world. Torn between her devotion to Joshan and the fate of her kind, Trenara struggles against accusations of murder,
the onset of war, and the loss of her faith in gods who have turned their backs on her. The only people she can trust to help them
are two war-ravaged heroes; the boy’s life-long trainer and an old sea captain everyone thought was a ghost. Their only weapon, a
ten-year-old boy who wakes one morning to find his childhood gone and his hands filled with a power he couldn't possibly understand--or
control. Together they must destroy a psychotic enemy and a religious order that has been running the Imperium for a thousand years;
a system they have all taken blood vows to protect.
