Review: Fantasy book with a lovely prose
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 28, 2013
We read a book to find out about a character's journey.On the voyage, the character suffers some changes, and if everything goes right, he or she becomes a better person. Sometimes this journey doesn't take one single book, but several tomes to get this person (and us) to the place that the author intended for us from the very beginning.In Iscah's story, we find a girl who has been denied one of the most basic human rights: a name.Surprisingly enough, not only does the girl with no name survive an orphaned childhood, but she also embarks on a trip of epic proportions to search for his father when her whole town turns against her.The girl, who has magical powers, visits many towns and villages searching for her parent, and on her way, she meets many characters. All of these interactions shape, little by little, her personality, and help her become a powerful and mysterious sorceress; surely an influential figure to be used in future books in the same realm.The narrative on the book evokes classical fairy tales; the words are carefully chosen to create an almost rhythmic flow, but the story varies from traditional themes.Because this book is the first of four prequels that happen before the main events of a novel that will be called Seventh Night, it is still too early to decide if the life of the girl with no name has a happy ending or not, or if she ever finds or crafts a name that she can call her own.