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The Guardian's Speaker Volume One
A Fantasy Novella by Katharine E. Wibell
Book 1 of the The Guardian's Speaker Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Norse Mythology,
- Animal Spirits,
- Mythic Fantasy,
- Gods and Mortals
This book is for you if you're into...
- Norse-inspired worlds where belief shapes reality
- Characters who see guardian spirits and wrestle with fate
- Stories about the cost of serving flawed gods
From Little Stack
The Guardian's Speaker Saga draws heavily on the myths and religion of the ancient Vikings, playing with the coexistence of spirits and gods among humans to create a world where belief is power, but communication with the divine has countless pitfalls and perils.
Speakers can hear, interpret, and relay the will of the gods, gods who are not all-powerful, but limited in their abilities and fully dependent on their mortal intermediaries to spread their word and carry out their world.
The violence is dialed down to let the story focus on the cost of serving the gods and the power of oaths. Great characters, a fascinating world, and a Norse-inspired tone that sucks you right in.
Some call it gift. Others, curse. For Líf, her ability to see each person's guardian spirit had always been a double-edged sword. She hated drawing attention to herself, especially by those who thought her mad, and yearned for a quiet life. Her greatest fear was that her siblings might not return from the summer raids.
Being at sea terrified her—the surging waves, the rolling motion of a longship, the murky depths below—and yet her society flourished from the wealth brought from war and water. Líf trusted the gods. She understood all choices were preordained. Her fate was sealed, one that linked her to the animal spirits she so loved.
Then a man with flesh of a different color upended her life and her world. He brought with him the warning of an invisible plague that would destroy their race and claimed that he was the only person who could prevent it, for like Líf, he also had an unexplainable gift. The problem was that he was a slave. And he was not hers to free…
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