SPFBO9 Semifinalist: The Sparrow And The Oak Tree by Jamie Jackson (reviewed by Esmay Rosalyne)
Official Author Website Order the book over HERE OVERVIEW/ANALYSIS: The Sparrow And The Oak Tree is an inventive romantasy retelling of the classic tragedy Tristan and Isolde . And whether you are familiar with this source material or not, this story will undoubtedly manage to surprise you in the most unexpected ways. It’s magical, entrancing, intense, unsettling, charming, alluring, mysterious, spicy, surprisingly dark, and… oh right, it has zombies! For over a hundred years, no one has come out of the forest alive… until the peculiar child that has just inexplicably wandered out of there. The King sends sorceress Isolde , going by the name of Sparrow , out on a mission to investigate and eliminate the assumed threat. So, together with Bear , her mysterious newly assigned bodyguard, she travels to the town of Perdition to complete this supposedly easy task. However, no one could have suspected that the child would be a creature from myth and legend who would whisk her ...