Fearing for Lumatere’s future, one day they make a pledge to protect it: His playmates are the king’s heir, Prince Balthazar, and Balthazar’s cousin, Lucien. We first meet Finnikin as the nine-year-old son of the Captain of the King’s Guard in Lumatere, one of the kingdoms of the land of Sculdenore. Her characters are always, always people I wish I knew! Even when they are flawed: these are not people you want to slap, but people you want to hug!
But Marchetta creates such intense, complex characters that you soon forget you are navigating through a different world as you become totally immersed in the story. Yes, you’ve got to work your way through the Babel of alien names and places at the start, and it takes a short while to adjust. But for Melina Marchetta, I thought an exception was justified, and I was richly rewarded. I don’t often seek out fantasy as a genre (that is, besides of course paranormals, post-apocalyptics, and dystopias!).
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