Book review - Fate and Resolve by Amy Lee

Book - Fate and Resolve

Author - Amy Lee

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Review:

Imagine being a female who is raised in an environment where everyone has their set roles and being a female means your role is to be subservient and to be a homemaker plus mother, for some this life may seem fine as it is all they have ever known but when faced with having to marry a man, who has already got one dead wife under suspicious circumstances, Leah decides that this is not for her and so runs from all she has ever known.  Can you ever really outrun your problems though?

With a forest that has many amazing creatures it is not long until Leah finds herself in the company of a centaur and her entire understanding of the world is turned upside down.  Centaurs aren't real?  Women are to be subservient?  The man is the master?

This story sees Leah go through a variety of emotions and we watch her develop throughout the story but thanks to the author also considering the wider world we are also presented with a variety of characters who stand out in their own right.  The book is beautifully written and flows well but in the beginning it feels like a somewhat slow start, stick with it as the author giving this slower start actually makes sense due to the fact this is how life is in Starling (the home of Leah before she flees).  This is a debut author who has a great level of skill in weaving a tale and I believe that now she has developed her world the tales are set in that we will have books which don't have that slower start and are even more exciting than this excellent opening piece.


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