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A review by mad_about_books
The Silenced Tale by J.M. Frey
5.0
Writers of fiction provide Readers with places of escape from a mundane world of ordinary happiness and sadness, human hurting human, by providing them with worlds of excruciating goodness and evil in which to revel. Writers can inflict whatever degradation and horror imaginable upon their characters without fear of reprisal. When you think of it that way, Writer as God and Reader as Accolyte, the world of books and stories becomes a vile and evil place where the worst can happen without consequence. Religion ruins everything.
Are our lives preordained, written in a book bound and unchangeable? Writer as God? Or, do we wallow in self-determination? So many questions in need of answers that seem only answerable after a lifetime of contemplation. Then, there is the Book, the one that brings it all into clearly muddy view. I am struggling not to do a single spoiler, and I feel that anything too specific will spoil things. What I will say is that there is not enough praise I can heap upon THE SILENCED TALE. My usual go to for a book like this is to say that I wish I could give it six out of five stars. That's not good enough here. This book, this series, is a perfect ten no matter how I determine the score.
For me, it is important to come away from reading with new understanding of things like the human condition, the state of the world, and current events. J. M. Frey manages to incorporate ideas such of these into her fiction. I don't read a book or story BECAUSE a book or series has a strong female lead, but I do appreciate when it does. The books in The Accidental Turn series revolve around a brash, smart woman who also relishes being a woman. I can't say more.
There are currently three novels and two novellas set in two worlds united and separated by magic. I would recommend that they be read in the following order:
Book 1 - THE UNTOLD TALE
Novella - Arrivals
Book 2 - THE FORGOTTEN TALE
Book 3 - THE SILENCED TALE
Novella - Ghosts
The first book can well be read as a standalone; however, to stop there would be to deny yourself the pleasure of reading the entire saga.
When all is said and done, the one thing in all this that I would like to read is Pip's PhD thesis. Oh yes, and the best adventures from the Scrolls of Bevel Dom.
Are our lives preordained, written in a book bound and unchangeable? Writer as God? Or, do we wallow in self-determination? So many questions in need of answers that seem only answerable after a lifetime of contemplation. Then, there is the Book, the one that brings it all into clearly muddy view. I am struggling not to do a single spoiler, and I feel that anything too specific will spoil things. What I will say is that there is not enough praise I can heap upon THE SILENCED TALE. My usual go to for a book like this is to say that I wish I could give it six out of five stars. That's not good enough here. This book, this series, is a perfect ten no matter how I determine the score.
For me, it is important to come away from reading with new understanding of things like the human condition, the state of the world, and current events. J. M. Frey manages to incorporate ideas such of these into her fiction. I don't read a book or story BECAUSE a book or series has a strong female lead, but I do appreciate when it does. The books in The Accidental Turn series revolve around a brash, smart woman who also relishes being a woman. I can't say more.
There are currently three novels and two novellas set in two worlds united and separated by magic. I would recommend that they be read in the following order:
Book 1 - THE UNTOLD TALE
Novella - Arrivals
Book 2 - THE FORGOTTEN TALE
Book 3 - THE SILENCED TALE
Novella - Ghosts
The first book can well be read as a standalone; however, to stop there would be to deny yourself the pleasure of reading the entire saga.
When all is said and done, the one thing in all this that I would like to read is Pip's PhD thesis. Oh yes, and the best adventures from the Scrolls of Bevel Dom.