Ever feel sometimes like life itself conspires to keep you from getting back to a book you really, really want to read? <G>
That's what happened with this book. So many projects, so many deadlines, and when I keep promising myself I will spend Sundays just reading, nothing else ... *sigh* ... projects pop up or I'm wiped out and spend the afternoon snoozing.
As always, Sharon delivers an engrossing, utterly believable slice of fantasy. Her worldbuilding is incredible, and I just want to sit down with her and listen to her talk about how she came up with the Dancing Realms, what research she did, how she figured out the physics of this world of sweet, citrus sea water and floating islands and starshowers and ... wow.
On the heels of the monumental task of essentially remaking the society of their world of Meriel, Carya and Brantley have a new challenge -- another floating island/world has appeared on the horizon. With the people of Meriel desperately in need of food as they repair the damages done by the Order, the two cross the water to explore and obtain supplies and make contact with whoever might be living there. Before they know it, they are trapped -- the plants themselves have closed up and formed a wall to keep them from getting back to the water.
As they explore and meet the people and navigate the disturbing patterns and rules and expectations of the different colored villages, each one named for a different color of starshower, Carya and Brantley learn the awful truth, the deception and enslavement that have overtaken the people. It could cost them their lives, and their growing love for each other, if their faith in the Maker falters.
Read this slowly, to savor every detail -- but make sure you have big chunks of time, so life doesn't keep getting in the way and stopping you from reading. Congratulations on the 2020 Christy Award, Visionary, for Hidden Current (Book 1) Sharon!
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