The world is hard and dangerous with just the barest hint of magic in it. World-building: I would classify this as a YA low fantasy.

Where a young girl must find her place and her family while trying to survive in a world built for men.”įable had me hooked from page one! Once again, Adrienne Young has blown me away with an incredible book that has amazing characters! I started this book on a Friday night, finished it on Saturday, started Namesake on Saturday and finished it on Sunday. Welcome to a world made dangerous by the sea and by those who wish to profit from it. Together, they will have to survive more than the treacherous storms that haunt the Narrows if they’re going to stay alive. To do so Fable enlists the help of a young trader named West to get her off the island and across the Narrows to her father.īut her father’s rivalries and the dangers of his trading enterprise have only multiplied since she last saw him and Fable soon finds that West isn’t who he seems. The only thing that keeps her going is the goal of getting off the island, finding her father and demanding her rightful place beside him and his crew.

To survive she must keep to herself, learn to trust no one and rely on the unique skills her mother taught her. The next day her father abandoned her on a legendary island filled with thieves and little food. It’s been four years since the night she watched her mother drown during an unforgiving storm. “As the daughter of the most powerful trader in the Narrows, the sea is the only home seventeen-year-old Fable has ever known.

Fable by adrienne young