Review: Chael's Luck
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 23, 2012
HOLY COW! Mi is a FABULOUS writer. She has created a world where once you enter you do not want to leave. You want to stay and fight side by side with characters. You have so many emotions that in one breath you are yelling and the other breath you are crying and then rooting for the underdog.Chael's Luck is just that story. When Mi said I could read it early I just about jumped out of my skin. I read The Chosen One Triology and absolutely loved it. Mi has done it again with Chael's Luck. In this story we start of with the birth of a baby and the death of the mother. The heart ache that a father and husband must endure but he realizes he must live for the sack of his child. As a Shadow Knight Sir James McKinney wants nothing more for his son than to follow in his foot steps and become a knight. So he sends him off to knight school where everyday he is harassed for being small and inadequate. As time goes on Chael learns to fight with what he is given and he learns what it is to be a true knight.As time goes on Chael learns he wants nothing more than to be a knight and fight side by side with his father and the other knights. But there is only one thing stopping him a big secret he and his family have kept and do not want anyone to find out. What is Chael to do if someone were to find out? Will Chael learn to trust his friends in his time of need? Will they accept his secret and love him in the end?Chael and his fellow knights will go through a series of tests and fights to save what is rightfully theirs and in the end will they all stand by Chael? Will Chael learn to trust and love those she has trained with all these years? Come along for a fantastical journey with Chael and the gang and learn what it is to truly love someone and have them love you back for who you are and not what you can do for them.My favorite quote from the book is when Chael has to make a sacrifice for someone she loves she is given a chose and her chose will seal that person's fate. "You're more than willing to die for those you love, we've seen more than enough proof of that. What the gods want to know is this... what are you willing to live without?"I frowned. "I still don't understand. I won't sacrifice another's life to better my own."He waved away the suggestion. "Chaela, you've worked your entire life to prove yourself.Today, you learned one thing about yourself you didn't know.""The Knight's blood."He nodded. "It's helped you succeed, much in the same way it helps the other Knights become Knights." He stopped talking for a moment and let what he was implying sink in. "Are you willing to give up the Knighthood to save your Ian?"I frowned. I'd spent the past eighteen years of my life proving myself worthy of being a Knight. Being a Knight had been my goal, my life. It was my life. I looked down to Ian and kissed him softly, my tears slipping down my cheeks and onto his. I took a deep breath and wiped them gently."Take it," I whispered.Chael blinked. "What was that?"I cleared my throat and looked him straight in the eye. "Take it."