Vance Huxley
Auteur de Harriet the Hornet
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- Œuvres
- 21
- Membres
- 171
- Popularité
- #124,899
- Évaluation
- 3.3
- Critiques
- 53
- ISBN
- 36
- Langues
- 2
Jer is a young man who's always wondered what his career will be - his tribe have a very strictly assigned roles, but as an orphan he's never known what his family trait will turn out to be. He knows the village is on hard times though, meals are always thin and insufficient - the providence the Goddess provided to rescue the tribe generations back has been hunted away and the pathfinders have slowly faded away too. The tribe's name a came from those pathfinders who could walk the mists, finding shortcuts to untouched lands with bountiful game and supplies. But now there are just a couple of routes left and all hunted out. Jer's just out looking for whatever he can find as all the children do, when he finds an unknown valley off the normal woodland paths. He never quite connects the surrounding mist with the Mist of tales.
The characters all just about work supporting Jer's voice, although quarrels are forgiven very readily without lingering grievance, which seems a little odd at times. The world-building is well done, but the story itself lacks drive and drama, you never get the feeling the villagers are actually starving, even though that seems to be the implication. I did actaully quite enjoy it, but not enough to care about eh sequel.… (plus d'informations)