Technically a prequel to her Fable duology, her latest novel Saint depicts the epic love story between Fable’s parents, a relationship that is referenced many times in those novels with varying degrees of reverence and mythologizing. Her “World of the Narrows” series, full of richly imagined tales of high seas adventures, smugglers, and pirates is the perfect escapist adventure, with the sort of thorough, lived-in world-building that will doubtless leave readers hoping for more stories in this universe for years to come. This is a big part of the reason why Adrienne Young’s books have felt like a breath of fresh air in recent years. For whatever reason, historical fiction is hard to find in the young adult publishing space these days as boundary-pushing contemporary stories, lush fantasy tales, and grim dystopias seem to dominate shelf space.
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