A Rise of the Summer God Adventure,
Summer H. Hanford (2024)
(Not a review, just some notes to help me remember the things I've read. But written this way because it's the Internet, and some people will stumble across this page.)
This was a booklet that I picked up at World Fantasy Con in Niagara Falls, NY, 2024. It's only 46 pages, and an additional ten pages for a preview of another book, but it's bound like a book, and longer than the other novellas I picked up, so I'm calling it a book. (And this will balance out with the number of 400+ pagers I've been reading lately.)
Aldera came to live in the pines of Ravenwood with her mother. She wasn't born there, but she wants to be accepted there. And she wants to learn the ways of the witches there and be able (one day) to transform into a raven. She is woken on the night of her 12th birthday by the other girls to undergo a three-part test. She almost doesn't survive.
Not much else to say about it.
There's a cool two-page map where I assume the Summer God adventures take place, but this entire story takes place in basically one location (though they move around to three parts of that area).
It was a pleasant, quick read, and I really needed some quick reads after some of the things that I've ploughed through lately.
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