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The Storyspinner The Keepers' Chronicles Book 1 eBook Becky Wallace

Bad guy killing a king and his family, infant child smuggled out, fast forward 16 years and that's where the story starts.

I'll confess I skimmed through some parts of the story. There were so many different POVs that skimmed through the ones I thought weren't as relevant and I didn't miss much. The story lagged a bit in the beginning. But it picked up somewhat towards the end.

Johanna was raised in a traveling performers troupe. It's fairly easy to figure out who she is in the beginning. A tragedy has befallen her family and they were cast out from the performers troupe to live on their own. While hunting she meets Rafi, the son of a Duke. A few things happen and rafi's family hire her to sing and tell stories at a couple of dinner parties. Rafi's dad has passed some time before so his mother is his most trusted advisor and she sees a resemblance in Johanna that she can't ignore. She was a close friend of the dead kings wife and Johanna looks too much like her to be ignored and she tasks her son with protecting Johanna.

The bad guy that kills the king pays Rafi and his family a visit. And from there the story picks up a bit. You'll just have to read it to know more. The relationship between Johanna and Rafi isn't what kept me reading. It was everything happening outside of that. The Keepers', some magical race of people who live on the otherwise of a magical barrier tasked Johanna's family with keeping the wall intact through bloodlines. The magic is weakening because the rightful heir has been missing for 16 yrs and there was a war 300 yrs ago where some evil keepers wanted to be in total control. The wall was erected to protect humans from those keepers by keeping them on the other side. Some keepers could feel something wrong happening a group of them investigate and try to restore the heir to her throne. They know of Johanna's secret because they have been keeping tabs on her

I kept reading because of the Keepers. And I know I'll continue reading because I want to learn more about them, not necessarily the romance between Rafi and Johanna. I also what to see what Johanna will do.

It's not a great epic story but it wasn't a terrible one and the bit of interesting aspects it did have kept me reading till the end. It was entertaining enough.


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The Storyspinner The Keepers' Chronicles Book 1 eBook Becky Wallace Reviews

The Storyspinner starts off a new fantasy series with a cool setting, delightful cast of characters, and some truly awesome magic.

In the first pages, I was enraptured by the concept of storyspinning. It’s storytelling, only more vibrant, adding in the use of illustrations drawn in dust thrown into the air. How do they manage to draw pictures in floating dust? I can’t tell you, but come on it’s a fantasy and that’s so cool.

The book opens with Johanna’s happy family. They’re all performers. Her father’s best known as an acrobat, her mother for singing, Johanna for storysinging, and her three brothers are heading for careers as acrobats too. Setting the tone for the coming story, the novel opens with pain. A happy family in fantasy basically necessitates death. Womp womp. The Storyspinner starts out as pretty badass fantasy and continues on in that vein. If you like your fantasy dark, get excited.

There are five POV characters in The Storyspinners Johanna, Jacaré, Rafi, Leão, and Pira. I will warn you that the narrative jumps around a lot. The individual chapters don’t tend to last too long and a number are just two pages. Since the narrative is in third person limited, though, there’s no issue keeping the characters straight. I actually really liked all the different POV characters and found them pretty close to equally interesting, so this worked really well for me. Not only that, but there are a lot of very strong female characters in The Storyspinners, which is something I keep an eye out for in fantasy.

The plot follows relatively familiar lines in this first volume. There’s a missing princess, whose identity probably will not surprise you, and an incredibly evil bad guy. There wasn’t too much that really caught me off guard. That said, I think it’s all done well and I was really into the story at all points. I’ll definitely hope for increased complexities in motivations and such as the series continues, but I think The Storyspinners is a great start.

Plus, the ships are off to glorious starts. There are two and I ship them both very hard. You know me. I’m basically sold at this point. One of them is hate to love and the other one is definitely against the will of the two people having serious lustful feelings for one another. There are a couple of great kiss scenes too. I NEED MORE OF THIS.

What I’m really torn on is the world building. I love the concept of the Keepers’ essencia and their elemental powers. I’m pretty much always on board for that. The setting appears to be in some fantasy version of South America; it’s either mostly or entirely set in Brazil. I can’t say for sure, though, because I find some of the world building really confusing. The best example is in the character names. They’re mostly Portuguese, but then there are a handful of English names thrown in, like Johanna’s family.

The Storyspinners is a captivating fantasy debut and I can tell you right now that I will be reading book two when it comes out in eight million years. Maybe reading it so early wasn’t such a brilliant idea after all.
Bad guy killing a king and his family, infant child smuggled out, fast forward 16 years and that's where the story starts.

I'll confess I skimmed through some parts of the story. There were so many different POVs that skimmed through the ones I thought weren't as relevant and I didn't miss much. The story lagged a bit in the beginning. But it picked up somewhat towards the end.

Johanna was raised in a traveling performers troupe. It's fairly easy to figure out who she is in the beginning. A tragedy has befallen her family and they were cast out from the performers troupe to live on their own. While hunting she meets Rafi, the son of a Duke. A few things happen and rafi's family hire her to sing and tell stories at a couple of dinner parties. Rafi's dad has passed some time before so his mother is his most trusted advisor and she sees a resemblance in Johanna that she can't ignore. She was a close friend of the dead kings wife and Johanna looks too much like her to be ignored and she tasks her son with protecting Johanna.

The bad guy that kills the king pays Rafi and his family a visit. And from there the story picks up a bit. You'll just have to read it to know more. The relationship between Johanna and Rafi isn't what kept me reading. It was everything happening outside of that. The Keepers', some magical race of people who live on the otherwise of a magical barrier tasked Johanna's family with keeping the wall intact through bloodlines. The magic is weakening because the rightful heir has been missing for 16 yrs and there was a war 300 yrs ago where some evil keepers wanted to be in total control. The wall was erected to protect humans from those keepers by keeping them on the other side. Some keepers could feel something wrong happening a group of them investigate and try to restore the heir to her throne. They know of Johanna's secret because they have been keeping tabs on her

I kept reading because of the Keepers. And I know I'll continue reading because I want to learn more about them, not necessarily the romance between Rafi and Johanna. I also what to see what Johanna will do.

It's not a great epic story but it wasn't a terrible one and the bit of interesting aspects it did have kept me reading till the end. It was entertaining enough.