A story about female empowerment through the casting of blessings is an original enough premise to loop in any reader interested in the mystical, magical and bizarre.
Ms. Cervantes gives us three very different sisters and their amiable bickering and solidarity in a very few paragraphs. We know what these girls are like and immediately find them appealing. Readers will undoubtedly pick their favorite(s) among the trio.
The idea of a misplaced blessing from a dying elder has a distinct biblical sound to it. But the situation has enough humor that you want to laugh, just a little. The humor balances neatly with the sense of tragedy as we have a girl who faints into a pool at a wake and just barely keeps herself from screaming when encountering a female relative returned from the dead. Hamlet must have felt like this when his father came strolling out of the darkness.
The story contains enough snap, humor, mysticism and character dynamic to rope in readers from the very first line and the story only gathers in intrigue from there. It’s a great beginning and I want to find out just how and if Ava gets her blessing and just what it was meant to be. In the meantime, we sense that she is at the beginning of a great adventure that will radically re-order her understanding of the universe and her place in it. This is going to be an epic journey with tons of fun, mischief and mayhem along the way.
Ms. Cervantes gives us three very different sisters and their amiable bickering and solidarity in a very few paragraphs. We know what these girls are like and immediately find them appealing. Readers will undoubtedly pick their favorite(s) among the trio.
The idea of a misplaced blessing from a dying elder has a distinct biblical sound to it. But the situation has enough humor that you want to laugh, just a little. The humor balances neatly with the sense of tragedy as we have a girl who faints into a pool at a wake and just barely keeps herself from screaming when encountering a female relative returned from the dead. Hamlet must have felt like this when his father came strolling out of the darkness.
The story contains enough snap, humor, mysticism and character dynamic to rope in readers from the very first line and the story only gathers in intrigue from there. It’s a great beginning and I want to find out just how and if Ava gets her blessing and just what it was meant to be. In the meantime, we sense that she is at the beginning of a great adventure that will radically re-order her understanding of the universe and her place in it. This is going to be an epic journey with tons of fun, mischief and mayhem along the way.