Title: The Inn at the Forest's Edge
Author: Raymond Keith
Date: 2023
ISBN: 979-8-9892608-1-2
Quote: "The Inn at the Forest's Edge...was a curiosity and had many stories of its own."
When Johann goes to work at the Inn at the Forest's Edge, he thinks he's a human, living in a human kingdom from which all the magical races have beenn banished, and in danger if he strays into the Forest where some of them still live. He soon learns otherwise. Tutored by an elf bard, in the company of an elf girl and a unicorn, he goes into the forest and fights off extra-large, extra-vicious wolves (bioengineered that way by wicked spirits) to win honor in the elf kingdom.
This "novelette" is short and simple enough for middle grade readers, well enough told to amuse adults for an hour or so. The foreword and afterword are overtly Christian; the story is fantasy with no reference to real-world religions. I gave it four stars. Some give it more.
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