It seems that the Charynites are living under a curse of their own that can only be lifted by their princess, Quintana, around whom rumors of madness swirl. While the book continues to follow the Lumaterans as they carry on rebuilding their lives three years after the curse that trapped some of their people inside the kingdom’s walls and forced those outside into exile was broken, a significant amount of the novel takes place in Charyn, whose invasion nearly destroyed Lumatere. Heart-shredding lines that reduced me to tears.
I keep a notebook of my favorite book quotes, and with this novel, I just wanted to copy down every. Page after page, sentence after splendid sentence reminded me how much I adore her writing and worship her as an author.
There are no adequate nouns or adjectives to describe her brilliance with words. I’d already thought Melina Marchetta was a genius before reading this, and now. Seriously, I don’t know what drives my reading selections sometimes. I think I was on page 2 of Froi when I wanted to take the book and repeatedly hit myself over the head with it for choosing to read all those other books before it. And then that copy proceeded to sit, unread and unloved, on my shelf until I finally got around to picking it up. What makes this total failure in judgment even more glaring is that I bought a copy of Froi very, very soon after I’d read Finnikin. Review: If I could change the past and fix the most egregious book-related mistake I’ve ever made, it would be this one: waiting over a year-yes, a year-to read Froi of the Exiles, the sequel to Melina Marchetta’s Finnikin of the Rock.
Many surprises await him in Charyn, however, the biggest one of which may be its enigmatic, and possibly insane, princess, Quintana. His mission to the arcane kingdom of Charyn is extremely dangerous, but Froi plans on accomplishing his single task and getting out. Froi seems to have found a home at last, and he’s more than willing to do anything to protect Lumatere. To Sum It Up: Three years have passed since the curse on Lumatere was broken, and its people continue to rebuild their kingdom.
Froi of the Exiles (The Lumatere Chronicles #2)
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