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A review by claudiareadsitall
The Canopy Keepers by Veronica G. Henry
2.0
Well this was disappointing. A brilliant premise let down by uninteresting characters and a meandering plot.
Syrah and her brother are out exploring in the Sequoia national forest in the middle of the night, having left their camping tent against their parents' instructions, when a tragedy occurs and Syrah is left alone in the world.
Years later, she is a Fire Chief in that same forest, pulled back by a desire to protect the land she so loves. Little does she know that there is another world born of the ancient trees' roots where two sides battle for the future of the forest.
I dove into this book ready to find a compelling main character, a rich fantasy world, and a narrative of nature v. man. Unfortunately, I didn't much care for Syrah. That's not bad in itself, there are plenty of characters whom I didn't like but still wanted to follow their story, but this was not the case.
When you build a fantasy world on top of a real one, the real one still has to make sense, and this one didn't. An entire hidden world that is not so hidden, because they work their wonders within our world, which goes by completely unnoticed in one of the most popular national parks in the country.
The problem might have been that the scope was too big for this book. Is this a fantasy book? A mystery to discover what happened to Syrah's brother? A race to save the land from the evils of plastic-hoarding people? A character finding herself beyond a single purpose? In the end, the book doesn't fulfill any of these and was a letdown.
Syrah and her brother are out exploring in the Sequoia national forest in the middle of the night, having left their camping tent against their parents' instructions, when a tragedy occurs and Syrah is left alone in the world.
Years later, she is a Fire Chief in that same forest, pulled back by a desire to protect the land she so loves. Little does she know that there is another world born of the ancient trees' roots where two sides battle for the future of the forest.
I dove into this book ready to find a compelling main character, a rich fantasy world, and a narrative of nature v. man. Unfortunately, I didn't much care for Syrah. That's not bad in itself, there are plenty of characters whom I didn't like but still wanted to follow their story, but this was not the case.
When you build a fantasy world on top of a real one, the real one still has to make sense, and this one didn't. An entire hidden world that is not so hidden, because they work their wonders within our world, which goes by completely unnoticed in one of the most popular national parks in the country.
The problem might have been that the scope was too big for this book. Is this a fantasy book? A mystery to discover what happened to Syrah's brother? A race to save the land from the evils of plastic-hoarding people? A character finding herself beyond a single purpose? In the end, the book doesn't fulfill any of these and was a letdown.