It’s a Young Adult (YA) novel, so the occasional cliche in the plotline is to be expected, but the conclusive twist Young dropped literally left my jaw hanging open with shock. There were many moments that made me feel like a little kid again, holding my breath as Fable weaved her way out of sticky situations with thieving traders and the crew worked to save the ship from deadly storms. I finished the book within days after spending hours with my eyes glued to each page. A sudden concluding plot twist reveals itself soon after, ending the novel on a dark cliffhanger and setting the stage for the sequel “Namesake.”įable was one of my favorite reads in a while. For the sake of brevity, the story nears its end with Fable refusing to accept the poor treatment of her father and sticking with her now-companions on the Marigold. SPOILERS AHEAD: When Zola and his crew inevitably clash with the Marigold crew, they are forced to claim a long-lost family secret by voyaging to the treacherous reef of Tempest Snare where they find the Lark: the ship on which Fable’s mother died. As the ship makes its way through the Narrows to Ceros, the protagonist learns that there’s more to West and his crew than she realized (sounds cliche, but bear with me) as she uncovers her father’s true intentions, hidden family debts and a dangerous rivalry with a notorious trader known as Zola. Together, they dodge dangerous storms and overseas enemies in order to make it safely to the city of Ceros where Fable’s father allegedly resides. Her ticket off the island is a trader named West, who runs a ship called the Marigold alongside his rag-tag team of crewmates.
Fable is determined to gain freedom from her prison and locate her father to demand a spot on his crew. Alone and surrounded by hungry men who would kill for a single copper coin, Fable must fend for herself while trading undersea goods to buy passage off of the island. The titular character, Fable, is a 17-year-old girl who has spent the last four years stranded on the island of Jeval after her father abandoned her following a violent shipwreck, taking her mother’s life. “Fable” is set in a dimension ruled by traders and guilds on the high seas.
Turns out, Adrienne Young’s adventure novel “Fable” was exactly the story I needed to whisk me off to a faraway world.
Seven months later, I find myself scraping the shelves to find new and intriguing novels to pass the time I’m not spending out with friends. At the beginning of quarantine, it seemed as though there was an endless list of books to read and movies to watch.
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