The Turrim Archive
Towers of Might and Memory
Seven orbs. One mission. One final chance.
Captain Marik races his airship across the war-torn continent to reach the final orb of power; the faded myth is their last slim hope to tip the scales. For if Uun’s assassins recover the artifact first, the tyrant will have all he needs to bring the entire world under his rule.
Trapped behind enemy lines, Grayden strives to wield his own orb, Beren chafes to return to battle, and Raisa struggles to cope with her new abilities. With obstacles at every turn, and time running out for the besieged capital, can the battered band of friends survive Uun’s plots, or will they fall to his might–and the world with them?
Rival factions clash over ancient powers as the world races toward its fate.

Taliesin by Stephen R. Lawhead was one of the first fantasy books I read all by myself.
My dad had already read me The Chronicles of Narnia, The Spirit Flyer Series, The Prydain Chronicles, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings… and I had already fallen in love with the genre. I can’t tell you how many times I read and re-read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (especially The Two Towers) over and over after he read them to us the first time.
But Taliesin was a gift from some family friends who, upon hearing that I liked fantasy, handed me a copy and told me I would love it.
I was 12.