With JK Rowling the fantastic in feminine began to match up with the great writers of this genre. And like everything that widens its sights, the matter gained in wealth. Because in the end the differences are not that many and ingenuity is not about gender but about creativity.
So it was about breaking old clichés and embracing Rowling or Laurie Forest. because just like Michael Ende offered us one of those enduring works such as The Neverending Story, which sums up fantasy with which to captivate young readers as well as juicy allegories and metaphors for other types of more adult readers, Forest does the same with his saga «The Chronicles of the Black Witch."
So if you like to take a tour of those exuberant fantastic worlds with their fight between good and evil, their heroes and heroines and their morals everywhere, you cannot deprive yourself of reading this American author who is breaking it worldwide. with the adventures and misadventures of a witch who finally frees herself from stigmas to gain a leading role that has always been denied.
Laurie Forest's Top 3 Recommended Novels
the iron flower
Second parts never was good. Except in literature. Because on many occasions the second deliveries take off more easily. There are no prolegomena and the plot is presented to us as a descent into an open grave into the jaws of the new world. The characters are already outlined and living under their skin is easier, almost immediate. Even so, it is a novel that can be read without having known the first part, because the author is in charge of constantly setting the scene and evoking crucial points from the first volume.
As the Resistance fights to counter the harsh decisions of the Wizard Council, more and more Gardnerian soldiers appear at the University, now led by Lukas Gray, commander of a nearby military base. Though Elloren tries to keep him at arm's length, Lukas is determined to join her, still convinced that she is the heir to the power of the Black Witch, a legacy of magic that will decide the future of all Erthia. As her own magic calls to her, trying to awaken a dark force within her, Elloren finds it increasingly difficult to believe in her worth.
Caught between her growing feelings for the rebellious Yvan Guriel and the seductive power of Lukas, Elloren must find a way to stay true to the greater good to protect everyone she loves... even if it means protecting herself.
the black witch
Notwithstanding what is indicated for the second part of this plot, it is always of great interest to know in detail the origin of everything. A first novel that is like that big bang to contemplate as curious passengers of the new created universe.
Carnissa Gardner, the last Black Witch, repelled the enemy forces and saved her people during the Realm War. She was one of the greatest Gardnerian magicians. Elloren Gardner, 17, is the spitting image of her famous grandmother, now dead, although she has no magical powers, and that's not good in a society that prizes magical abilities above all others.
After the death of their parents, Elloren and his siblings are raised by their uncle in a village in the woods. Elloren wants to go to Verpax University to become an apothecary, but his scheming aunt-in-law wants her to marry Lukas Gray, a powerful wizard and political ally of his aunt's. Elloren rejects Lukas' proposal, and discovers that his aunt's influence spreads and makes his life at the university potentially fraught with danger.
At University, Elloren meets all sorts of different creatures, winged Icarals, shapeshifters, Elves and Selkies, and ends up falling in love with Yvan, whose Keltish background can't quite fit a Gardnerian like her. Elloren learns to question authority and Gardnerian history, while developing a real empathy for different peers, making friends with the most outcasts and outsiders, the only ones worthy of trust, while beginning to question everything she knows and thought she knew about history. and the culture of Garnderia, realizing that there is a good reason for the growing opposition to the new go
the black wand
A trilogy closure that finally spread even more due to the wide interest aroused and the constant ramifications of a universe with an epicenter in Erthia.
Elloren Gardner hides the most powerful secret in all of Erthia: she is the Black Witch of Prophecy, and she is destined to succeed or else be used as the ultimate weapon of destruction. Separated from all those she loves, she must turn to the last person she can trust: her partner Lukas Gray. With the Gardnerian forces poised to conquer Erthia, Elloren will have no choice but to ally with Lukas to protect himself from the Gardnerian leader's clutches.
With only weeks to train to become a warrior, and with no control over her own magic, Elloren will find unexpected allies among those seemingly destined to kill her. The time has come for her to step forward, to defend herself and move on before the destruction is even greater.
Other Recommended Laurie Forest Novels
The Marea Negra
You never know when a fantastic saga ends. Because at every moment the struggle between lights and shadows takes on new vigor. What is clear is that on this occasion, knowing the black witch and her particular world, the approaching abyss sounds like a final challenge...
Now that everyone knows that she is the Black Witch of the prophecy, Elloren Gardner has fled without knowing if she will find friend or foe on her way. Now that her mate, Lukas Grey, may be dead or in the hands of the Great Wizard Marcus Vogel, Elloren knows that the only way to turn the coming war around is to find allies willing to listen rather than murder her in blood. cold.
In the Eastern Kingdom, the water fae Tierney Calix and Trystan, Elloren's brother, have joined the wyvernguard, and are preparing for Vogel's attack. But Trystan fights on two different fronts, as he is the most hated and distrusted member of the guard. And Tierney's link to Erthia's mightiest river has revealed a danger more terrifying than impending war. The Black Witch has returned and the prophecy has come. It's time to fight. But Vogel still has a crucial revelation for everyone.
