Amaskan's Blood provides Thought provoking Fantasy read
Raven Oak’s ‘Amaskan’s Blood’ is a tightly woven family tale set in an epic setting beyond what you might expect from a normal fantasy novel. It is a feast of words and story that explores the relationships between sisters, fathers and daughters while also bringing justice to the foreground of the story.
Oak’s lands are filled with swords and just a hint of the mystical until near the end when magic is revealed and those who wield are seen as unforgiving and without mercy. If you think you know how justice should be dealt, ‘Amaskan’s Blood’ may help you find out what justice is when it is served without recognition of the circumstances involved in the meting thereof. However, the story is about family first and foremost; everything else is gravy.
While the story also explores the issues of equality, rape, abusive relationships and love, none of these things overpower it. Rather, they empower ‘Amaskan’s Blood’ to be so much more than just a good way to pass the time. Oak knows how to write thought provoking prose without breaking her world’s concept. Reading the first in the Boahim Trilogy was like trying to run through Alexander – exhilarating, beautiful and filled with danger for preconceived notions about how people of any economic or social level should be treated.
Oak’s lands are filled with swords and just a hint of the mystical until near the end when magic is revealed and those who wield are seen as unforgiving and without mercy. If you think you know how justice should be dealt, ‘Amaskan’s Blood’ may help you find out what justice is when it is served without recognition of the circumstances involved in the meting thereof. However, the story is about family first and foremost; everything else is gravy.
While the story also explores the issues of equality, rape, abusive relationships and love, none of these things overpower it. Rather, they empower ‘Amaskan’s Blood’ to be so much more than just a good way to pass the time. Oak knows how to write thought provoking prose without breaking her world’s concept. Reading the first in the Boahim Trilogy was like trying to run through Alexander – exhilarating, beautiful and filled with danger for preconceived notions about how people of any economic or social level should be treated.