Epic is right!!!
Zelie has never been able to do right by her brother or her father. Try as she may she always ends up screwing things up. But when soldiers come announcing higher and higher taxes Zelie is left with a desperate decision. She must go to market to trade for enough coin to pay the taxes lest she gets thrown in the stocks. But at the market she is approached by a young girl asking for help as she is pursued by royal soldiers. Zelie finds herself in another mess as she discovers this young girl is actually the princess. Wanted by her father and pursued by her brother the princess, Zelie Train embark on a daring quest to bring magic back to the people known as the Magi and to rise up against the tyrannical king who would have them all destroyed. Can Zelie and her comrades complete their quest? Or will the king's soldiers get to them first? Heart-wrenching sadness, disgusting indignation, epic journeying, victorious triumph... this book has them all. Very well written and very easy to follow, this story will both captivate you and crush you. Just great storytelling. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I thought that it was a very good balance between the devastating parts and the triumphant parts. Thereby making the book not too sad but not too happy as well. The characters were very well developed and very easy to relate to. This is one of those books where there's a character for everyone. The cliffhanger at the end definitely makes you want to read the next installment. Definitely a book for those who enjoy Tolken, Rowling and George R.R. Martin.
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This is a sea epic adventure story.
If you didn't already know this book takes you on the journey of a sea voyage as told by our first person narrator Ishmael, who in boredom, decides to join the crew of a whaling ship called the Pequod. They then and bark on their journey off the coast of Nantucket and search of whales and most infamously the killer white well known to the sailors as Moby Dick. Crazy Captain Ahab seems not only dead set on evening the score with Moby Dick but in his obsession to do so leads the ship and its crew in to peril. Will Ishmael ever reach the shore again alive? Okay so I understand this is a classic, but my readers expect an honest review for me so here it goes... Though beautiful the writing is in this book, Herman Melville is extremely long-winded with his descriptions of pretty much everything. Every little detail takes an entire chapter to explain. The book becomes extremely tedious and even boring to those who aren't really keen on ocean epics. The language in which it is written is borderlined Old English and is beautiful to read. However as I said before the descriptions of things become monotonous with this author. I respect this for the classic that it is. But I'm sure this will probably be my one and only time reading this one. Now I can say that I have read it and move on. I would definitely recommend others to read it once and respect for the classic that it is as well. It is a good story overall, just difficult to read. |
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