Eric is not your typical troubled teen. He controls storms and causes lightning to destroy towns. But he does this because he can’t control his talent and thinks he is cursed. Alister comes along and helps him, teaches him and gets him to help secure the land that is being taken over by an evil foe. This book takes some getting used to. I have never read any of the Lord of the Rings type stories so I had no frame of reference as some reviewers referred to this book before I was able to listen to this book. The narrator did a great job with Alister and the other characters not so much. But he carried the story and kept the action going. I got this book via audiobook boom.