Seasons of Albadone
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Ratings4
Average rating4.1
Four seasons. Four stories.
An aspiring enchantress searches for a way to lift a terrible curse.
A drunken father makes a dangerous wish.
A foreman tilts the balance between nature and progress. A mother travels with her dying child in search of a healer.
Four paths merge. Four destinies intertwine.
Adriel is an apprentice enchantress living in the forest of Albadone. Her teacher falls ill due to a terrible curse and sends her on a quest to fetch the ingredients for an enchantment that may save her. Upon returning to the cabin they share, Adriel stumbles upon a terrible secret.
Handel is an alcoholic father. His daughter's dying wish is for him to travel within the heart of the forest to seek the mysterious Wishing Tree. Handel finds the Tree, but the wish it grants may not be what he bargained for.
Brade is a foreman digging into the heart of the forest, seeking the volatile black water within its depths. The warnings he receives go unheeded, and he unknowingly sets into motion a terrible catastrophe.
Ashe's baby is dying. All the healers have left the woods of Albadone, so the desperate mother travels through the forest in search of anyone that may help. But the help that she finds comes at a terrible cost.
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A short, fairy tale style read, but the old school kind of fairy tales where Hansel & Gretel murdered the witch at the end. Four separate but connected stories, one for each season, take us through some rather dramatic developments in Albadone.
I enjoyed this, and would've rated it a 4, except for a couple things: it felt perhaps too short (204 pages), so I ended up caring less for the not very deeply developed characters than I think the author intended. Also, it could've benefited greatly from an editor. Numerous plainly wrong uses of words and phrases - “stood to his feet”, using “donned” as an adjective, etc. - as well as the unnecessary italicisation of so many words, bumped me out of the story regularly.
This is an excellent set of four connected fantasy stories. The authors are able to get you care about the characters quickly. The world is very interesting and has a Grimm’s fairy tale kind of feel. It was very interesting seeing how they connected each story while showing you a broader view of the world. I would highly recommend this as a quick read between bigger fantasy books.
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