The titular character, Fable, is a 17-year-old girl who has spent the last four years stranded on the island of Jeval after her father abandoned her following a violent shipwreck, taking her mother’s life. “Fable” is set in a dimension ruled by traders and guilds on the high seas. Turns out, Adrienne Young’s adventure novel “Fable” was exactly the story I needed to whisk me off to a faraway world. Seven months later, I find myself scraping the shelves to find new and intriguing novels to pass the time I’m not spending out with friends. Together, they will have to survive more than the treacherous storms that haunt the Narrows if they're going to stay alive.At the beginning of quarantine, it seemed as though there was an endless list of books to read and movies to watch.
To do so, Fable enlists the help of a young trader named West to get her off the island and across the Narrows to her father.īut her father’s rivalries and the dangers of his trading enterprise have only multiplied since she last saw him, and Fable soon finds that West isn't who he seems. The only thing that keeps her going is the goal of getting off the island, finding her father and demanding her rightful place beside him and his crew. To survive, she must keep to herself, learn to trust no one and rely on the unique skills her mother taught her. The next day, her father abandoned her on a legendary island filled with thieves and little food.
It s been four years since the night she watched her mother drown during an unforgiving storm. Where a young girl must find her place and her family while trying to survive in a world built for men.Īs the daughter of the most powerful trader in the Narrows, the sea is the only home 17-year-old Fable has ever known. Welcome to a world made dangerous by the sea and by those who wish to profit from it.
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