Fable (The World of the Narrows, 1)
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Welcome to a world made dangerous by the sea and by those who wish to profit from it. Where a young girl must find her place and her family while trying to survive in a world built for men.
As the daughter of the most powerful trader in the Narrows, the sea is the only home seventeen-year-old Fable has ever known. It’s been four years since the night she watched her mother drown during an unforgiving storm. The next day her father abandoned her on a legendary island filled with thieves and little food. To survive she must keep to herself, learn to trust no one and rely on the unique skills her mother taught her. 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 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.
But 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. Together, they will have to survive more than the treacherous storms that haunt the Narrows if they're going to stay alive.
Fable takes you on a spectacular journey filled with romance, intrigue and adventure.
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Seventeen-year-old Fable was abandoned on an island after a storm killed her mother and wrecked her father's ship. It was tough surviving on her own there. No one knew she was the daughter of the most power trader in the Narrows, and Fable knew better than to let anyone know. But it was because of her father that she was able to pull through all the hardship the islanders threw at her. If she could get herself out of there on her own, she would be able to have a place among her father's crew - that was her father's promise, and she was going to make sure he upholds it. She eventually sought the help of a young trader, West, when she needed to escape death under the hands of a terrible thief. As they travelled through the sea together with the rest of his crew, secrets began to unfold one by one.
And I remember getting so caught by the secrets.
I adore the world that the author has built. The intricacies of relationships among the different characters was a web to behold. The dynamics blew my mind. The kind of life the traders lead are not for the soft-hearted. Rivalries are rampant, and getting under the bad books of a trader is not something anyone would wish on another. To read about how Fable and the others go about the different obstacles made me salute them. Though considered young in this line of work, they managed to hold their own.
As for the characters... something was lacking in them. Adrienne Young did spend enough time talking about the backstories of the different characters, but it was still tough trying to cut through the barriers set up by all of them. Not enough time was put into them for me to properly be introduced.
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