Synopsis
What manner of legends might darkness conceal?
Darkness, no fourteen-year-old should fear. Or so Bastian believes until he discovers that, in the dark, hides a terror known only to old English legends—a terror that’s stalked him since the day he was born.
England’s Sylphic Kingdom, peopled with its Forest Children and Faeries, its Oakmen and Sunwalkers and Sprites, awaits the coming-of-age of its hero—the Sun Child. For at the hand of a Wight Witch, risen to great power, the Sylphic Kingdom stands on the brink of destruction. And with its fall, so too will perish the natural world.
To discover what hunts him, to understand why, Bastian must realize that some legends, holding both wonders and terrors, are real. And to protect his family, Bastian—a boy who fears the dark, who fears the fight—must face dire challenges and win Sylphic allies. And he must wake his courage. For to unlock the secret to the Wight Witch's defeat, he must embrace who he was born to be, even at the cost of his life.
"Sun Offspring of the Field" by Tricia D. Wagner is a youthful grown-up dream novel that breathtakingly entwines components of enchantment authenticity with a convincing transitioning story. The story follows Bastian, a fourteen-year-old kid who, after moving to Britain's Dartmoor district, becomes snared in the enchanted legends of the Sylphic Realm — a domain possessed by Woods Youngsters, Faeries, Oakmen, Sunwalkers, and Sprites. As Bastian uncovers his association with these old fantasies, he faces both outside dangers and inner feelings of trepidation, especially his longstanding fear of the dull.
Wagner's composition is praised for its idyllic magnificence and vivid world-building, successfully obscuring the lines among the real world and dream. The moorland setting is portrayed with such distinctiveness that it turns into a person by its own doing, wrapping perusers in its wild excellence and untamed energy. The clever's air is additionally improved by the creator's fastidious tender loving care, making a setting that is both captivating and premonition.
Key to the story is Bastian's excursion of self-revelation and fortitude. His personality is depicted with profundity and legitimacy, making his development from an unfortunate kid to a fearless legend both credible and moving. The supporting characters, including Bastian's family and the cryptic Expert Sayre, are advanced, each adding to the story's close to home reverberation and topical intricacy.
The novel has gotten acclaim for its drawing in plot and all around created pacing. Mary Lanni, a commentator for Reedsy Revelation, portrays it as "an elegantly composed, perfectly wonderful, fantastical story that mixes enchantment with reality in a convincing and reasonable manner." Another commentator features the book's "strong environment," noticing that "the actual fields take on a unique kind of energy, giving a scenery to the show that is creating with their untamed energy and wild excellence."
In rundown, "Sun Offspring of the Field" is a luxuriously woven story that consolidates components of imagination, relational peculiarities, and self-improvement. Its suggestive setting, melodious writing, and interesting hero make it a champion expansion to the youthful grown-up dream classification, interesting to perusers who value stories where wizardry consistently interweaves with the real world.
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