Author: Vivienne Lee Fraser
Date: 2018
Publisher: Vivienne L. Fraser
ISBN: 9780648218111
Quote: "I have the learning to pass on to the Wizard and Warrior that they will need to defeat their enemy. I just hope they make it here in good time."
In the magical kingdom of Aria, Seamus, a nobleman's son, isn't supposed to have magical abilities, but he has. So he's running away from home. Aliah (as she thinks of herself), or Aliahanna (formally), or Ali (when she's trying to disguise herself as a boy), the princess, is supposed to have married a prince of a kingdom across the sea that wanted an alliance. On finding that they wanted a pretext for war, she's running away too. The two stray teenagers meet, find friends, and start what's going to be a series of adventures in this book.
Without spoiling the plot, let's just say that books about runaway teenagers should encourage them to reconcile with their parents if it won't endanger their lives, and this one does.
This is a reasonably well written, full-length, young adult fantasy novel. If you like fantasies with young protagonists, and you're not neck-deep in self-published genre fiction already, you might easily get into the story and want to buy the rest of the series. The main reason why I didn't is that I am still neck-deep in self-published genre fiction and I don't even, at the time of writing, have a remotely reliable Internet connection I can use to read it, much less review it. Woe is me, I wail (cheerfully, because at the time of writing it was May, and who wants to be tied to a computer in May anyway). But you, if you're in the target audience for this novel, are likely to enjoy it.
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