Did you want to keep reading? This is the sine qua non of writing. Nothing matters if you don’t want to keep reading. So, in the case of Rebecca Warner’s Journey of Souls, did I want?
Tag: fantasy
Jehan put his hand to his forehead. Yes, those bells were contributing to the painful ringing that clouded his mind. It filled him with rage.
He turned from the valley and made his way toward the trees. The tip of his large sword slipped down, beneath the plate armour attached to the outside of his pack, nearly scraping on the ground. The sloping plain lead him to the trees, making the valley behind appear like a great scar carved out of a rolling hill on its way to the mountains.
He knew scars.
Stewart goes all-in on the supernatural, leaving no question about the supernatural nature of the events of the story. The reader is up to their eyeballs in a hard-core fantasy revenge story that sweeps across the centuries like a blood feud.
While The Sentinels is not a fantasy novel—it reads like contemporary fiction, a young adult coming-of-age story—there is a hint of something… special going on. I’ll say no more, because potentiality is sauce for the goose.
What we have here is a fantasy story steeped in Irish folklore.
Charlie Says’ A Brief History of the Future (The Reader Discretion Advised Series): Vol.1. The Dolphin Dies is a world-creation combining fantasy and science fiction.