idle tide
I'm an epic fantasy aficionado.
The one series that drew me in the most is the Pact of the Shadow Walkers, by Pierre Bottero.
It's a trilogy.
It's meant as a follow-up to Bottero's other series that happen in the same world, The Quest of Ewilan.
I absolutely loved the way he introduces the reason for that series even existing.
"When I placed the final word of the final tome of Ewilan's saga, I thought that each of those characters would follow its own path, look for its own happiness, live his life as a character finally freed from the author after a trying literary adventure.
All of them?
Not Ellana.
Impossible to leave her. She haunts my dreams, walks with me during the day, fluid and elusive, transforming my vision of things and my perception of others, hooks on my most intimate thoughts, climbs my secret desires...
Can an author fall in love with one of his own characters?
Did I really create Ellana or did I only begin existing the day she appeared?
Are our paths forever entwined?
- There are two answers to those questions, whispers the wind. Like all questions. The answer of the sage, and the one of the poet.
- The one of the sage? The one of the poet? What is this...
- Shht... Now write."
(translated from French by yours truly - I don't know if an official translation exists, though I do know there is one for Ewilan's saga)
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