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• Louise Ceres

  Genre – Middle-grade fantasy
  Literary style – comfy quest
  
  Middle-grade, accessibly written, clean fantasy, on a well thought-out world-build in the clouds.
  
  I enjoyed the milieu (social setting) and the excellent creatures (not just the moogles), quite unlike anything I have encountered before, although I kept thinking about Ursula K Le Guin’s ‘Athsheans’, however, the worlds are completely different, and this is not an adult fantasy read.
  
  The story is really about the quest which left me feeling a little hungry for character motivation and emotional depth, there were a couple of incidences of too much telling and not enough showing in this story for my personal preference. However, the narrative style is evocative of a teacher telling a story to an audience and I believe, in the context of the work’s genre, and age range, that this was probably the right thing to do and rather than be detrimental it added a certain cadence to the narration which actually resulted in a comfy/cosy fantasy read. Highly enjoyable in that context context and although Zeeglit gets into some serious scrapes on his quest the situations are age-appropriate in terms of levels of fear, violence, or danger which is a difficult thing to achieve for any writer.
  
  All in all, I thought this was a charming read and would have LOVED this when I was 8 and was reading The Wind in The Willows and The Hobbit.
  
  Extract from Zeeglit’s Quest…“It had turned into a beautiful night and the stars twinkled brightly in the heavens. Lying on his back on the damp floss, paws behind his head, he looked for a space where the fallen star might have come from, but he couldn’t see one. As the wispy clouds of the Cirrostratus drifted across his vision, he marvelled at the size of the universe and how lucky they were to have the visitors sleeping close by – creatures that he hadn’t known existed until recently. He wondered what other beings were out there and, not for the first time, he wondered whether there might even be life on the Oodle Pool far below.”
  
  I received a Review Copy of Zeeglit’s quest. All opinions in this review are just that, my opinion.
  

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