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A review by marjanabosnjak
The Lost Scroll of the Physician by Alisha Sevigny
5.0
I received an ARC from the author
A bit of introduction to the story:
The story follows our young protagonist Sesha, a strong-willed, incredibly smart girl, whose parents perished in a fire not too long before the story began. She has a younger brother Ky, who suffers from a condition for which the cure had not yet been discovered. Before her father's death, Sesha was aware that he was translating a scroll which might have been the answer on how to help her sibling.
However, the night of the tragedy that took both her parents, the scroll went missing and nobody knew what it looked like. If Sesha wanted to help her brother, she'd have to find the scroll before it was too late.
Alisha Sevigny's writing is absolutely magnificent. Her choice of words, her storytelling, and world-building provide the story with magic that its characters amplify by a thousand.
The story as a whole has a rhythmic pace where the important events were not passed too fast and the slower scenes don't drag on.
Sesha's a brilliant girl with an incredible mind. She is very knowledgable in whatever she does and knows a lot about medicine, a profession passed onto her from her father, who was a physician himself. Sesha's loyalty is awe-inspiring and has no limits whatsoever. The things she'd do for her brother, including risk getting trampled by hippos, is what my own siblings couldn't even be bothered to think of.
She is smart and strong but also honest and isn't afraid to speak her mind.
The rest of the characters in this story have their own interesting personalities, but I found myself relating to Sesha and really becoming endeared to her for some reason.
I also mentioned before that the setting of this story and world-building is done incredibly well, which makes me wonder just how many hours of research the author had to do in order to write this entire book. She certainly displayed great knowledge in herbs as well as different methods they used at the time to heal people.
A marvelous read that gripped me until the very end. Great job.
A bit of introduction to the story:
The story follows our young protagonist Sesha, a strong-willed, incredibly smart girl, whose parents perished in a fire not too long before the story began. She has a younger brother Ky, who suffers from a condition for which the cure had not yet been discovered. Before her father's death, Sesha was aware that he was translating a scroll which might have been the answer on how to help her sibling.
However, the night of the tragedy that took both her parents, the scroll went missing and nobody knew what it looked like. If Sesha wanted to help her brother, she'd have to find the scroll before it was too late.
Alisha Sevigny's writing is absolutely magnificent. Her choice of words, her storytelling, and world-building provide the story with magic that its characters amplify by a thousand.
The story as a whole has a rhythmic pace where the important events were not passed too fast and the slower scenes don't drag on.
Sesha's a brilliant girl with an incredible mind. She is very knowledgable in whatever she does and knows a lot about medicine, a profession passed onto her from her father, who was a physician himself. Sesha's loyalty is awe-inspiring and has no limits whatsoever. The things she'd do for her brother, including risk getting trampled by hippos, is what my own siblings couldn't even be bothered to think of.
She is smart and strong but also honest and isn't afraid to speak her mind.
The rest of the characters in this story have their own interesting personalities, but I found myself relating to Sesha and really becoming endeared to her for some reason.
I also mentioned before that the setting of this story and world-building is done incredibly well, which makes me wonder just how many hours of research the author had to do in order to write this entire book. She certainly displayed great knowledge in herbs as well as different methods they used at the time to heal people.
A marvelous read that gripped me until the very end. Great job.