A Review by Luke Cowling.
Everybody knows Emily Rodda as the brilliant face and pen behind the ridiculously popular Deltora Quest series, but her other works often go unnoticed, suffocated by the success of DQ. And this is a shame, because without Emily's other works, I may not even be as interested in fantasy as I am today.
Her series entitled 'Rowan of Rin' largely slips under the radar as far as the genre goes, and this is again a great shame. The series is an extremely simplistic read, designed for children and young adults, but includes some of the most well known tropes in the genre, which serves as a great introduction for young people to realms of dragons, elves, orcs and so forth.
I cannot tell you what year, but my primary educations included the first book in the series somehow as part of the curriculum. And as a result this lead me to reading the rest of the series in my youth, and much past that I was hooked on Rodda.
The stories are not so complex that your children could not follow them, but the puzzles and conflict that the protagonists face are clever and engaging for older audiences as well. I've since revisited the series in my adulthood, and found them charming to a ridiculous degree. They're perfect for switching off one's brain at the end of an intense, and escaping into a gentle and easy read of pure fantasy.
Everybody knows Emily Rodda as the brilliant face and pen behind the ridiculously popular Deltora Quest series, but her other works often go unnoticed, suffocated by the success of DQ. And this is a shame, because without Emily's other works, I may not even be as interested in fantasy as I am today.
Her series entitled 'Rowan of Rin' largely slips under the radar as far as the genre goes, and this is again a great shame. The series is an extremely simplistic read, designed for children and young adults, but includes some of the most well known tropes in the genre, which serves as a great introduction for young people to realms of dragons, elves, orcs and so forth.
The stories are not so complex that your children could not follow them, but the puzzles and conflict that the protagonists face are clever and engaging for older audiences as well. I've since revisited the series in my adulthood, and found them charming to a ridiculous degree. They're perfect for switching off one's brain at the end of an intense, and escaping into a gentle and easy read of pure fantasy.
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