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Winner, Allbooks Reviewers Choice Award.
While visiting the kingdom of Jaan for seeds, the young exile Sasha Varov stumbles into adventures and becomes an accidental legend, known as “Innocence.”
A year later, Sasha leaves her father and her gay brother protecting the other exiles while she returns to Jaan. She begins her journey, unaware that an old enemy has gained arcane powers, or that the Jaanians expect her to defeat that enemy.
With the help of an outcast, a mutant, and an aging but heroic lesbian couple, Innocence might prevail.
Tongue-in-cheek sword and sorcery for fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Princess Bride, Ladyhawke, or Xena: Warrior Princess!
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Genres:
Tropes: Band of Misfits, Big Sword, Book of Spells, Dark Enemy, Fish Out of Water, Found Family, Here Comes the Cavalry, Parallel Worlds, Reluctant Hero, Training, Wise Mentor
Setting: In or near Jaan, a kingdom in an alternate reality.
Languages Available: English
Tropes: Band of Misfits, Big Sword, Book of Spells, Dark Enemy, Fish Out of Water, Found Family, Here Comes the Cavalry, Parallel Worlds, Reluctant Hero, Training, Wise Mentor
Setting: In or near Jaan, a kingdom in an alternate reality.
Languages Available: English
The relentless wind whipped the sails as the shroud of darkness that sometimes entombed them began to return. Darkness had descended and slowly disappeared in the same fashion, and at the same time, on each of their previous three days at sea, always around noon. As she gazed at the warship anchored beside theirs, Sasha absently toyed with one of the long, meticulously plaited braids of deep chestnut-colored hair that usually flowed down her back. She often pulled a braid over her shoulder when lost in thought.
Her attention became riveted on the massive claw marks on the ship’s hull. Deep gouges ran at some points from stem to stern, indicating that the ship and her undoubtedly unlucky crew had come across a dragon or sea serpent. By the looks of the nearly shredded topsail and hole-riddled mainsail, the crew barely survived; the tales they shared quickly spread unease among the men who rode with Sasha toward the kingdom of Jaan.
Shawn C. Sproatt, author of The Misfit of Supernatural High (Supernatural High Series) on Barnes&Noble.Com wrote:“I absolutely loved The Return of Innocence. I thought it was one of the better short YA fantasy books that I had read in a while.” Read the full review at Kayla's Reads and Reviews.
In my opinion, I'm sick of fantasy books with sexist mindsets where women are regarded as second class citizens, who literally have to fight for their right to be warriors, and the men are the ones who get to go out and have fun adventures. So "The Return of Innocence" was very refreshing to read.
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