The ‘Songs of the Lost Islands’ series was written to be easily adapted to readers with different reading levels.
First and foremost, it is a Fantasy story, full of action, passion and adventure. The Heroic Fantasy fans are conveyed to an exciting trip with a group of characters into a highly developed imaginary world. The ideas of conformity to natural laws are fundamental to the cohesion of this imaginary world; nothing is left to chance, and the more deeply the reader probes into the ‘behind the scene’, the more finely-tuned he find it is. There are different plot lines that are based on the various characters features: ranging from mysticism and spirituality to the more common love and power themes. The storyline interweaves the elements of the different plots.
Second, the ambition is to bring back the art of narration in order to make it a spell-binding novel. Every detail needs to be culminating and significant so that readers feel like reading and rereading this novel, picking up new things each time that finally make sense later on. The format is close to an HBO series with each chapter being equivalent to an episode, and each book the equivalent to a season.
Last, what adds to the series appeal is its evocative dimension. It was built as a metaphoric mirror in which today’s world is reflected. The purpose is to develop the coherence of this imaginary world (The Lost islands), hoping to shake up the real world. In the SoLI series, there is no hypothetical fight between good and evil, but an ambition to narrate history through interactions between characters each with their personality, beliefs and obsessions. The sharp-eyed reader will have realized the parallel with the series plotlines and the threats of today’s world.
An Act of Faith