LitPick Review
Crislin has lived in fear her whole life. The realm she has always known as home, Tynan, is a poor, starving land with a terrible tradition. Every year a new Quelda is choosen. She and her husband live in the palace for one year until the day they are ritually sacraficed. Crislin has a vision of her daughter; the daughter that could be if she escapes the crual hands of Tynan and stops the horrible tradition that haunts every Tynanian. Crislin escapes with her husband and goes on a journey to end the terror she has always known.
Opinion:
Christine E. Schulze's Crislin is a shy, clingly, scared girl who hides behind her husband any time anything bad happens to her. She escapes from a realm with horribly bloody traditions, after denying her husband sex, and starts out on a journey. During this journey she is met up by many characters with random quirks, Mokuolo is described as a large black woman and seems to talk with a southern twang, calling everyone Sista, despite being from a realm that greatly mirrors Earth's China. The story that follows is filled with matephors that don't make any sense and weird connections made to earth, which seems to another planet. Over all this book seems to be a writers attempt at a deep thoughtful novel that just flopped. The 200 pages were hard to get through.
The plot was elementary at best and the "deep" metaphors were anything but.
