Review: A subtle storm
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 18, 2013
It must be tough being the princess of a village of the Northmen. Oddly enough, this lady, if it weren't for her location and physical description, would sound like a total rip-off of Disney's Merida (oh, wait, and her heavy interest in science, not archery). She constantly goes against her father's orders to be more a traditional Norse woman and not go after everything her own heart desires (and proceeds to down them). Things change when she rescues a man in a nearby river, who claims to be from a place called Esclede, coming by to study the area, and to be a follower of a sect called the Leaders of Light.And yet, that one rescue attempt will have changed everything, gradually, but still changing so much. In nearly 86 pages, you see a king gripped by the passing of his wife become a whole 'nother person, someone that his own daughter questions the motives of another man for.What I had a problem with in this was that the writing style, in the middle, seemed a bit stilted for the storytelling method, so I felt like I had to trudge through a seemingly lengthy short story.I'm hoping the book this is a prequel to is better-written than this, as well as to see connections to this novellum in the story itself.