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Fable
by Adrienne Young
4.5 stars over the sea on a clear moonless night
I’m often skeptical of nautical adventure books, pirates and sea farers and traders and such, and well treasure hunters, none of them do it for me. But I’m a sucker for beautiful writing, and Fable’s is exquisite. Haunting and lyrical, Young paints a stark picture of Fable’s life, of the deep, terrible, spectacular, dangerous beast that is the sea, in vivid literary watercolors. Fable herself is extraordinary, a girl more in tune with the sea than with humans, trader, fighter, survivor extraordinaire.
The adventure portion of the book picks up around 9% and it is hard to put down after. The romance itself is not the primary plot, and is a subtle, understated slow burn, not unlike the calm surface of the sea on a balmy, sunny day. Nevertheless, the story feels deeply romantic, not in small part because of the easy, almost wordless connection between Fable and West, riddled with hurdles but absolute in spite of them.
The star of the show though, is the painfully complex, frustrating, heartbreaking relationship between Fable and her father. It ebbs and flows, hurts and heals, and leaves you as conflicted as it does her. We’re left at a gut wrenching cliffhanger, and I’m looking forward to more adventures of Fay and her motley crew in Namesake.
I’m often skeptical of nautical adventure books, pirates and sea farers and traders and such, and well treasure hunters, none of them do it for me. But I’m a sucker for beautiful writing, and Fable’s is exquisite. Haunting and lyrical, Young paints a stark picture of Fable’s life, of the deep, terrible, spectacular, dangerous beast that is the sea, in vivid literary watercolors. Fable herself is extraordinary, a girl more in tune with the sea than with humans, trader, fighter, survivor extraordinaire.
The adventure portion of the book picks up around 9% and it is hard to put down after. The romance itself is not the primary plot, and is a subtle, understated slow burn, not unlike the calm surface of the sea on a balmy, sunny day. Nevertheless, the story feels deeply romantic, not in small part because of the easy, almost wordless connection between Fable and West, riddled with hurdles but absolute in spite of them.
The star of the show though, is the painfully complex, frustrating, heartbreaking relationship between Fable and her father. It ebbs and flows, hurts and heals, and leaves you as conflicted as it does her. We’re left at a gut wrenching cliffhanger, and I’m looking forward to more adventures of Fay and her motley crew in Namesake.