It'll make you cry out, beg and pray to a deity - whether you believe in one or not.
Reading this book is like having all the fun of sex without pregnancy or STDs. It doesn't seem possible, there's magic in the air, and Marchetta eats your heart with how lovely and sad it is. Reading this book is like being under a spell.
Reading this book was like looking at a rainbow - beautiful, something for everyone, filling our hearts with joy, and you assume at least one Unicorn was involved in the making of it. When it's so native and natural to the storytelling, that the audience is able to completely forget that it's all made up.īut you guys don't really want to read my wax poetic about how much I love and respect Marchetta. It's usually doing it's job best when you can't tell it's there.
There is a rich, imaginative fantasy mythos going on here, but world-building is like movie special-effects. Who are they? what are their struggles? What do they hope for? What do they fear? Often societies and races get boiled down to the language lexicon and dress code that the author painstakingly put aside for them. It's easy, when constructing fantasy worlds, foreign mythology and ensuring you've described the elves' ears right, to forget the heart and soul of fantasy - and that is the people in it. What sets the Lumatere series apart from many other fantasy novels is it's focus on people and relationships.
If you have read Finnikin of the Rock and Froi of the Exiles than fear not. By far her strongest and most compelling ability as a writer, is the way in which she crafts her characters and their struggles in the context of the world they live in. Marchetta's novels only come in shades of amazing. Hauntingly beautiful, powerfully written and the perfect end to this brilliant fantasy series.īut this is nothing different.
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