''Each of us needs a quest, and a person without one is lost to himself.''
Arthur: The Seeing Stone is about a 13 year old boy called Arthur, who lives in the Middle Ages. He wants to be a squire (a knight's attendant) and be betrothed to Grace but his father has other plans for him. His problems increase when Merlin, his friend, gives him a magical and mysterious obsidian stone. On the stone, Arthur can see things. The stone shows him a story but he doesn't know why and how it is connected to him. This is the first book in the trilogy and it is about Arthur trying to find out what the stone is showing him and what is going to happen to him in real life.
This book is historical fiction and is set in 1199 A.D. Arthur's father is a lord so the book gives you a very brief understanding of what life was like in the manor house. The book is made up of 100 chapters and a map of the village at the start of the book. It has simple language but has a few words about the Middle Ages. Luckily, there is a word list at the end of the book so you can look at the definition of some words.
The ending of the book is incomplete because the story will continue on the next two books. I recommend this book for tweens and teens.
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