This is a story about a man and his parents on their race to safe the unsavable, a story about a king that is to be born and give hope to a world of dispair. It is a story about Charyn and Lumatere, a story about 2 queens, about two curses, about a cave with 5 completely different women trying to protect the truth and the future of a kingdom. This is not only a story about Quintana (not even a story about only Quintana and Froi). There is so much beauty in the writing and the world building that it hurts. Because this was such a complex story (the whole series is) with so many destinies to follow, with so many entwined lives, with so many turnarounds, with so many wonderful or terrible scenes, with so many tears to shed, with so many cries of emotion. I could never make justice to this book, to this fantastic world. Everything seems important to me, every character has a voice and a destiny worth telling, every scene made my heart ache for joy or for sorrow. My husband asked me to tell him about it, and I didn’t even know where to start.

How can I describe its beauty if I can barely gasp it all? and hope (above them all there is hope, because this is the only gift she can give to her characters after all the suffering they’ve endured for all those years).Īs usual with Marcheta’s books I am somehow at a loss for words. This is a powerful story that still burns into my soul it’s like a symphony of joy, sorrow, fear, hate, love. I loved with all my heart the first two books in this series and this ending (Quintana of Charyn) was all that I’ve expected and then much more. Her words ‘sing’ to us and we can hear them from all around the world. I hope that she already knows what an amazing writer she is, because if there is a book that I can read with my eyes filled with tears and my heart full of happiness, it is one of her stories. There is no one in this world (and I really mean NO ONE) that could write like Melina Marchetta. and I guess my love for it will still go on forever.īe warned, this is what this series might do to you: it might drown you while you try to breathe in all the beauty of this world and with every word you’ll only want more and more oh, such a wonderful addiction that will leave you breathless, speechless, crying and smiling all in the same time. I knew it was coming and even thought I was prepared for the force of it, it still blew my mind away – I loved it from the first page to the very last one. It’s an ocean of emotions that I’ve been sinking in and it’s not like I haven’t expected it, because I really did.

Quintana of Charyn by Melina Marchetta