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The Daughters of Orion
The Daughters of Orion is the story of a young girl's journey of self-discovery as she searches for her mother and seeks to defeat her family's sinister enemies.
195 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2011
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November 24, 2023
This book is nuts!
Our hero is a young lady named Darla Noel Page, and she hates being called a child! She is trapped in a dreary existence, living in and being schooled at a place called Nefandous House. Darla wants out, and tries to run away with regularity, and it is starting to dawn on her that her dreams may be more real than her waking life. In a blink we are dealing with ghosts, knights, and witches!
Darla finds out she's really Princess Praella, that her parents are both presumed dead... but she would really rather you called her Darla Noel Page (it's an anagram for Edgar Allan Poe, and Darla knows it).
Soon we're neck deep in a fantasy tale about a kingdom in peril and treacherous plotters, not to mention a fire-breathing werewolf who rules over goblins inside an evil black mountain! Knights are questing, people are using spells and flying, but Darla refuses to believe that there is really a dragon out there. Darla figures out how to make up spells, she figures out she can talk to horses, and she becomes a knight!
“The Daughters of Orion” is a super fast lighthearted adventure which has got all the stuff you could want to see in your high fantasy adventure, but it's never ever bogged down in melodrama, nor is it weighted down by what some call “grim realism”, and any danger of young-adult tropes is easily sidestepped, yet this is perfectly appropriate for kids of all ages. Did I mention it's fast? It's super fast! I read this book primarily at airports and on airplanes, and it really made the time flash right by.
We meet a lot of people throughout the book, kings, knights, kings who are knights, sorceress queens, a talking raven, a chauffeur, goblins, an eyeball in a crystal ball, but mostly there's good old headstrong Darla, who is not about to be sold short or left out.
Jeff Kwasnieski's wit is comin at ya like a machine-gun in this book, and there are references in everything, and I'll admit I missed a lot of those. You don't actually have to be “in on it” to enjoy the book in any way.
“The Daughters of Orion” is a lot of fun, and I intend to read more from this author.
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