The King’s Nightingale
Sherryl Jordan
Scholastic
Pub. 2021

July 20, 2021

Imagine: you are enjoying life in your village, happy amongst your parents, brothers, sisters, and friends. Then, all of a sudden, a swarm of rogue pirates bombard your village. They murder, steal, commit arson. They capture you and your brother. They leave you in filthy conditions for months, with little food and barely any water, before selling you for piles of gold at a slave market.

The King’s Nightingale by Sherryl Jordan is a rich and exciting fantasy adventure about a girl named Elowen who is captured and sold as a slave by pirates, but because of her beautiful singing voice, she becomes the king’s personal singer.  Read more

Wynter’s Thief
Sherryl Jordan
OneTree House
Pub. 2019

04 May, 2021

Wynter’s Thief by Sherryl Jordan is a beautiful story about love, friendship and trust. I really enjoyed this book; I loved the way it was written and how easy it was to follow. When there are two perspectives in a book, sometimes I find it hard to read them. But with this book, the two main characters and their different perspectives were not completely separate; they were entangled with each other which made it so easy to understand what was happening.

One of the perspectives belonged to a girl called Wynter, a young woman who is trapped by her father as she is a water witch and people pay her father for her ability.  Read more