5/10/2023 0 Comments Allison saft a far wilder magicSaft doesn’t shy away from showing the ugliness of bigotry, nor the hardships the main characters must endure simply for the identities they were born into. With constant discrimination from their community, Margaret and Wes are working to prove not only themselves but also that success is not contingent on identity or background. The heavy religious elements in this novel were something I didn’t anticipate, but it imbued the character’s motives with importance. The two, therefore, decide to join the Halfmoon Hunt, a sacred event at which alchemists and hunters pair up to hunt the last living hala, an elusive beast seen as evil by the Katharists but revered as a divine being by the Yu’adir and Sumic people. Wes wants to prove his alchemical abilities after being kicked out of several apprenticeships, and Margaret wants to prove herself worthy of her mother’s return. Aspiring alchemist Wes has shown up at the Welty Manor looking to become Evelyn’s apprentice. Margaret’s mother, Evelyn Welty, is a famous alchemist who has disappeared-as she often does-on one of her obsessive research trips. This novel follows Margaret and Weston, teenagers whose families practice the Yu’adir and Sumic religions respectively this makes them both outsiders in the heavily religious country of New Albion, where most follow the prominent Katharist religion. I haven’t done that in years, which leads me to the primary adjective I’d use to describe Saft’s sophomore novel: unexpected. I should start by saying that I read Allison’s Saft’s A Far Wilder Magic in one sitting.
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