A yarn where the core is love love of an abandoned daughter for a distant father and a haunted father for his precious daughter love of a terrified boy for a fiery girl and a lost girl for a cold boy and the love of a tortured brother for his little sister and a trapped sister for her looming brother. To put it best, Adrienne Young has spun a yarn of yearning, made from threads of survival, family, and the meaning of home of longing for something that seems both the cure and the ultimate, inevitable curse. I tried my best to capture the vibe of the book in my book playlist, you can listen to that as a side aid ➾ Spotify URL This is a book that takes you beneath the sea and into the unknown cold and lets you watch the shadows of all the pain and longing, and makes you secretly hope. And he was lost without her.įable is not a fast paced, fun tale of adventure in line with Pirates of the Caribbean this fable is grim, and dangerous, and slowly immersive-you might say it’s more in line with the show Black Sails if you’re really looking for a comparison, albeit ill-fitting. She was the pattern of stars that he navigated by, the sum of all directions on his compass. Isolde was the wind and sea and sky of Saint’s world. Such is the way of a book so atmospheric. I was sailing the grim, deadly Narrows on the mainmast of a shadow ship, a spyglass sharpening my gaze I was dredging the bottom of the deep blue sea, silence and chaos my companions. Fable takes you on a spectacular journey filled with romance, intrigue, and adventure.Ī newer edition of ISBN 9781250254368 can be found here. Where a young girl must find her place and her family while trying to survive in a world built for men. Welcome to a world made dangerous by the sea and by those who wish to profit from it. Together, they will have to survive more than the treacherous storms that haunt the Narrows if they're going to stay alive. To do so Fable enlists the help of a young trader named West to get her off the island and across the Narrows to her father.īut her father’s rivalries and the dangers of his trading enterprise have only multiplied since she last saw him, and Fable soon finds that West isn't who he seems. The only thing that keeps her going is the goal of getting off the island, finding her father, and demanding her rightful place beside him and his crew.

To survive she must keep to herself, learn to trust no one, and rely on the unique skills her mother taught her. The next day her father abandoned her on a legendary island filled with thieves and little food.

It’s been four years since the night she watched her mother drown during an unforgiving storm.

For seventeen-year-old Fable, the daughter of the most powerful trader in the Narrows, the sea is the only home she has ever known.

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