You are a part of us
and our culture because you came to us at such an early age. However your soul
and instincts are human. If I were to take a baby leopard and raise him with a
flock of sheep he would become like the sheep. He would be placid, maybe timid,
would stay with the flock and perhaps eat grass but eventually he would feel
the call of the wild and desire to wander away from the flock in pursuit of
something more. It is only nature Afeclin, and there is no point in trying to
deny it.”
Titanian Chronicles,
Journey of Destiny is the Hero’s
Journey writ large, using the building blocks of myth and folklore at their
deepest roots. All the great stories you’ve half-heard and half-remembered are
here, though perhaps in their “natural” form. Reading this work gives you the
distinct feeling that you’re turning back the pages of time, or glimpsing
between the cracks of so much ancient literature to the ur-story at
their source. Clearly the author has done her homework, and asked the most
important question a novelist can ask him/herself: how does my story fit
into the grand tapestry of literature? Without trying to reinvent the
wheel, Leisl Kaberry manages to emulate the great works of fantasy from the
past (both the recent and distant past) without telling the same story twice.
You don’t know these characters, and can only guess at some of the twists and
turns of this story, and yet it all exists in a world that feels familiar and
habitable. Indeed, you’ll want to set up camp and prolong your stay in this
exotic yet dangerous realm...at least long enough to figure out what a “lawfabex”
is.
