Book Title: Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta
Topic: Fantasy
Thoughts: This is a book I enjoyed reading from the beginning. Ten years have passed since the king and his family of Lumatere have been brutally murdered and an imposter king took the throne. Finnikin and others are in exile wanting to place the rightful heir on the throne and return home. Finnikin and Sir Topher travel to "the cloister of the goddes Lagrami" to meet a "simpleton" who takes them on the quest to save their kingdom.
Marchetta does a good job of keeping readers in the dark by having the majority of the novel follow Finnikin's thoughts, and at the end she surprises the reader with situational irony and effectively shows how several lines Evanjalin speaks have a double meaning. Now I want to reread the novel to pick up on all the lines that foreshadow the end.
I was surprised when Marchetta switches to Froi's point of view, but she has to do this help readers follow the plot.
I like the realistic strong-willed characters Finnikin and Evanjalin and the conflict they have with each other trying to prove which one is the strongest.
If I could stand at a rock's edge and yell--like Finnikin and Evanjalin do--for everyone to read this book, I would be willing to lose my voice shouting the merit of it.
Marchetta does a good job of keeping readers in the dark by having the majority of the novel follow Finnikin's thoughts, and at the end she surprises the reader with situational irony and effectively shows how several lines Evanjalin speaks have a double meaning. Now I want to reread the novel to pick up on all the lines that foreshadow the end.
I was surprised when Marchetta switches to Froi's point of view, but she has to do this help readers follow the plot.
I like the realistic strong-willed characters Finnikin and Evanjalin and the conflict they have with each other trying to prove which one is the strongest.
If I could stand at a rock's edge and yell--like Finnikin and Evanjalin do--for everyone to read this book, I would be willing to lose my voice shouting the merit of it.
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