Exclusive INSOMNIA (*)
Emerald Land. The magic sphere (Worlds Epic Publishing Group, 2011), Pilar Alberdi, auspiciously inaugurates a narrative universe, joining a long tradition provides elements that are worth highlighting. Enrolling in the current
known as heroic fantasy, and aimed at a teenage audience, the book successfully fulfills the requirements of the genre, showing original fantastic and mythological creatures like the mysterious noctiluca, the evil Arácknee or Qheimera old and tired, in a medieval setting, with a strong magical and epic.
Wasting no time, the narrator's voice-in-announces Fidelius type readers who will be attending the birth privileged Emerald Land (or the lineage of smaragdos), known as the Three Kingdoms (Mytos, Circe and Artemis ), the three lineages (Smaragd, Akhéetes and Rubin) and the three libraries. Then warns that these lands arose from fear Ténebrus race of which, like the great despots do not support knowledge and, therefore, have destroyed all books at your fingertips, repeating a sad practice that can be found from time when the emperor ruled China Qin Shi Huang (in the year 212 BC) until the late twentieth century in Nazi Germany or the Chilean and Argentine dictatorships.
After outlining the main lines of this battle between good and evil, with a strong symbolic and where a book can change the destiny of humanity, Fidelius reveals that "it is Therefore, the history of early settlers and the girl who gave birth to the legend and then became a princess and later queen. "
Then the scribe introduces other characters, who are gaining importance as are the pages, thus forming a choral work that attempts to show that the most profound transformations are achieved through the summation of small noble deeds. And this is something that readers enjoy, because every action is the central story, and even the jailer gibbus-alienated and degraded by Lupus Ténebrus forces-can be key to the victory of good.
Moreover, and contrary the traditional male dominance in these adventures, the author provides very strong female characters, such as Emerald own who must reject or accept their fate in the days to come, and his sister Agatha and Ruby, who will begin a long march along the old Egregius vetulus Magus, a magician who knows maybe its main mission is not to create wonders supernatural, but to propose dialogue Rhéetores Council as a way of consensus to build a common destiny. Nor need the brave young at heart and that girls can fall in love: in this case it is Akótlythos, who falls prey to the castle, manages to flee, and common boy becomes a reference and a crucial turn of events. Among the infamous Arácknee stands, with its spider spies, and the corrupt and petty Shadow, servile merchant tyrant. And more, of course.
In the introduction, Fidelius says that "this story is a continuation of others and anticipating the next." Readers will surely take note of these words, for Lands Esmeralda. The magic sphere is a valuable work by reading the key relationships in fantastic and also the proposal for a future that his readers will appreciate Kéleuthos following the path of "one for which peers belong together."
(*) Insomnia No. 160. April 2011. HERE
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