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We have already met Eoghan O’Cinneide (Anglicized as Owen Kennedy) several times throughout the series but he appears as musings from Atticus’s past usually saying “Don’t cock it up, Siodhachan.” Owen is Atticus’s archdruid and 2,000 years ago the Morrigan foresaw that Atticus would need Owen’s help in the future so she convinced Owen to allow her to put him on a time island in Tír na nóg. It wouldn’t have been hard to convince him since Owen was in his 70’s in a time when 70 was absolutely ancient and he was beginning to suffer the ravages of age. Realizing his days were numbered anyway, Owen agreed to go along with the Morrigan’s plan, which included him being removed from the island when the Morrigan died which would have appeared an unlikely event.
The student is now the teacher as Atticus has to teach Owen everything from English to the last 2000 years of history, including all that Atticus has learned since he was a young druid. Owen takes to some modern conveniences (indoor plumbing) better than others (what the frek is a cell phone). Atticus also introduces Owen to his Immorali-Tea and after more than a pot, Owen is returned to a man in his 40’s. Of course, as a little payback to his harsh taskmaster, Atticus neglects to mention that diuretic properties of just a cup of tea, let alone the whole pot — before he introduces Owen to indoor plumbing.
I introduced this series to a co-worker and every morning he would walk in with another great scene with Oberon, and each time I told him simply “you haven’t met Owen yet.” Then one morning he quotes Owen, and declared how much he loved Owen. I smiled because I knew he would. 🙂
This is the first story where Granuaille, who is now a full druid, and Atticus split up. While Atticus deals with Owen, Granuaille receives a call from Laksha Kulasekaran that her archaeologist father is in India and has been taken over by a demon spirit. The demon appears to be infecting the locals with a plague which is simply more demon possessions. Granuaille shifts to India to work with Laksha to free her father from the demon. As if fighting demons isn’t enough for the young druid, Loki takes the opportunity presented to mark Granuaille so he can divine her location back to Atticus. Now Granuaille must decide whether she stays away from Atticus or does she find a way to remove Loki’s mark.
In Hunted, Atticus becomes convinced that someone was helping the Diana and Artimus on their hunt for Atticus and Granuaille, and it looked like someone in Tír na nóg was working to take the druids out. He goes to Tír na nóg to find proof and finds much more than he bargained for including an all out war with the fae.
While I hate to see Granuaille and Atticus being split up, it kept the action going with more than one plot going. Owen is a great addition to the group bringing in the interesting fish out of water aspect but still bringing his decades of experience as a druid. Owen will also be introducing his wealth of experience to a new generation of druids.
After 2000 years of being the only druid, Atticus will now have a new family of druids to work with and continue the work.
This is such a great series and Owen is not a character to be missed.
Great works as always by narrator Luke Daniels in bringing this series to life.
Reading updates
- Started reading
- 12 February, 2017: Finished reading
- 12 February, 2017: Reviewed