Seven Strengths: A Tale from Turaset (The Industrial Age) by P.L. Tavormina – Review by Erica Shoebridge

Seven Strengths: A Tale from Turaset by P.L. Tavormina
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is a really great little story that I devoured in one sitting. Celeste is a driven 17-year-old daughter of innkeepers, who yearns to escape the life determined for her by her parents. Bored and tired of laundering sheets, cooking meals, and butchering animals, she hopes to be a teacher in the local school and have a home of her own. When she is offered a two-year college program in the city to expand her mind (and see what is beyond the small country town she knows) she moves hell and highwater to get there. Things are very different in the city, and she starts to wonder if the fears her parents held about leaving her town might not have been as baseless and silly as she thought.

Celeste’s adventure and the way her education shaped her were interesting and layered. Her ability to learn and synthesize new information, and then be able to reflect on how that knowledge has changed her was very mature and a high-level way of thinking that endeared me to her character. Dear authour, this better be a series, because the novel is great in so many ways, and I can see so many directions this book could take from the ending. The possibilities for plot paths were spinning in my mind once I got to the end. I will be seeking out further books by this writer for sure.

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