First Rider's Call

This is the sequel to ‘Green Rider’, and a well done sequel at that.

Karigan G’ladheon had gone home to follow in her fathers footsteps, to be a merchant, determined to leave the world of kings, advisors, and Green Riders, behind. Everyone told her she wouldn’t be able to resist the call of the Riders, that once chosen, you stayed chosen, but she would have none of it. She didn’t want to be a Green Rider, she didn’t want to be a messenger. The brief period she had spent finishing the job of a dead Rider was more than enough for her, thanks.

But when she wakes up half-way to Sacor City in her nightgown, atop her horse, not remembering how she got there, she decides that it is useless to fight.

And so she enters training to become a Rider.

Ever since an evil mage, that had since been defeated, had managed to put a crack in the D’Yer wall, the wall that protected the land from the evils of the Blackveil forest beyond, things hadn’t been right. Groundmites kill villages, people and wildlife alike were turning to stone, and the Rider’s magic brooches were failing.

To make matters worse, there are wraiths on the loose. Wraiths that were once men, men who had been second in command to Mornhaven, the evil mage that they had defeated over 1000 years ago in the Long War.

When the First Rider, Lil, begins visiting Karigan in her ghostly form, she thinks she is going crazy. The First Rider had come to try and help Karigan bring the few riders left together. She brings Karigan back in time, to view how things were when they defeated Mornhaven before. With the help of a 1000 year old ghost, Karigan must figure out how to fix what is wrong.

This book was good! I normally don’t expect too much from a sequel, but I was pleasantly surprised this time!