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Wanderer
Shunned by the people of the High Kingdoms, the Wanderers seek refuge in ships on the open sea. When an officer tries to prevent her family from reaching the awaiting ship Sarin makes the impulsive decision to jump into the water and swim there, unknowingly thrusting herself and the rest of the Wanderers into a world of sorcery and adventure. (Short Story in the Tales from the Circle Series)
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Published May 24, 2017
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July 4, 2017Author Insight #1 Wanderer
Wanderer was written quite a few years ago and it sat in its folder on my computer for quite some time. So long, in fact, that I forgot about it completely. And then one day I decided to go through my old short stories and came across a file called Wanderer. At that point I had no idea what it was about and opened the file to see what it was. An unfinished idea perhaps? A very old, lame story that I wanted to quietly leave there so it could continue to gather dust?
I opened the file and began to read and found that I was quite enjoying it. It's a weird experience, reading something you wrote, but having very little recollection of what it was about. As I was reading I realized that this was actually a pretty good story. Perhaps this is why it was the first one I published. It's not every day an author is impressed with their own work. We often look back on old work and find it embarrassing or lame or just hate it, so this was a welcome exception.
Wanderer is an important story in the Tales from the Circle series - in that world in general - because it shows the first encounter of the Wanderers with a powerful magic on the Great Water.
Wanderer was written quite a few years ago and it sat in its folder on my computer for quite some time. So long, in fact, that I forgot about it completely. And then one day I decided to go through my old short stories and came across a file called Wanderer. At that point I had no idea what it was about and opened the file to see what it was. An unfinished idea perhaps? A very old, lame story that I wanted to quietly leave there so it could continue to gather dust?
I opened the file and began to read and found that I was quite enjoying it. It's a weird experience, reading something you wrote, but having very little recollection of what it was about. As I was reading I realized that this was actually a pretty good story. Perhaps this is why it was the first one I published. It's not every day an author is impressed with their own work. We often look back on old work and find it embarrassing or lame or just hate it, so this was a welcome exception.
Wanderer is an important story in the Tales from the Circle series - in that world in general - because it shows the first encounter of the Wanderers with a powerful magic on the Great Water.
August 7, 2018
The story is narrated through the eyes of Sarin, a Wanderer. She is an interesting character who likes to take things into her own hands, and act on impulse. I am always glad to read stories with strong female leads.
This was so fast paced you seemed to zip through it. Fantasy is one of my favourite genres to read (and watch) so I was quite keen to pick this up. However, I had to read it through twice to understand what was going on! I loved the language and the authors ability to convey so much in such a short story.
My problem was with the sudden changes and skips forwards and backwards in the time line. I'm still unsure if the middle section on land is a flashback or not.
I loved the concept of refugees and I think it will resonate with many in our chaotic world.
This was so fast paced you seemed to zip through it. Fantasy is one of my favourite genres to read (and watch) so I was quite keen to pick this up. However, I had to read it through twice to understand what was going on! I loved the language and the authors ability to convey so much in such a short story.
My problem was with the sudden changes and skips forwards and backwards in the time line. I'm still unsure if the middle section on land is a flashback or not.
I loved the concept of refugees and I think it will resonate with many in our chaotic world.
July 31, 2018
3.5 stars
Wander was entertaining and cool with the hints of its magic and world, but too brief for the story it tried to tell, and disrupted by several time-skip sequences that occasionally a little difficult to follow (this due less to the skips and more to the fact that there were three or four of them in the course of a 5k book that transpires through a rather nebulous span of time.)
Still cool story, interesting world conveyed with decent prose, just wish there had been more of it shown.
Wander was entertaining and cool with the hints of its magic and world, but too brief for the story it tried to tell, and disrupted by several time-skip sequences that occasionally a little difficult to follow (this due less to the skips and more to the fact that there were three or four of them in the course of a 5k book that transpires through a rather nebulous span of time.)
Still cool story, interesting world conveyed with decent prose, just wish there had been more of it shown.
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