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A review by scostner
A Myth to the Night: Parts I-V by Cora Choi
3.0
I'm not one of those folks who feel that they have to compare every middle grade novel to Harry Potter, but there are similarities in some of this story's elements. The setting is a boarding school. There are phantoms (ghosts) all over the campus. Two groups are struggling for power - one that wants freedom and one that rules through fear. In this case, the groups are the Order of the Crane and the Order of the Shrike. The Cranes gathered and preserved stories and legends from all over the world, believing that the tales held lessons necessary to live and have hope. When the Shrikes overthrew the Cranes, they burned all the books and the stories were slowly forgotten. Now everyone is finding it harder and harder to face and defeat their fears.
Hugh was a member of the Order of the Crane and has been searching for the Slayer of the Shadow of Fear. The Slayer is the only one who can defeat the Shadow and free the world from its deadly power. His search is difficult because he died during the massacre of the Cranes and his phantom is stuck on the island where the Order's monastery once stood (the island that is now a school run by the Shrikes). And he can only be seen and heard by the living at night. But he has persevered for 400 hundred years and still holds to his vow not to enter the afterlife until his quest is complete.
Can you imagine being the only one who remembers heroes like Roland, monkey gods from Asia, or leprechauns? Or how frustrating it must be to try year after year to find someone who can release the stranglehold of the Order of the Shrike and never finding him? If you enjoy stories about someone pursuing a cause hey believes in passionately, try out A Myth to the Night, and see if Hugh succeeds.
I read an e-book provided by the publisher through NetGalley.
Hugh was a member of the Order of the Crane and has been searching for the Slayer of the Shadow of Fear. The Slayer is the only one who can defeat the Shadow and free the world from its deadly power. His search is difficult because he died during the massacre of the Cranes and his phantom is stuck on the island where the Order's monastery once stood (the island that is now a school run by the Shrikes). And he can only be seen and heard by the living at night. But he has persevered for 400 hundred years and still holds to his vow not to enter the afterlife until his quest is complete.
Can you imagine being the only one who remembers heroes like Roland, monkey gods from Asia, or leprechauns? Or how frustrating it must be to try year after year to find someone who can release the stranglehold of the Order of the Shrike and never finding him? If you enjoy stories about someone pursuing a cause hey believes in passionately, try out A Myth to the Night, and see if Hugh succeeds.
I read an e-book provided by the publisher through NetGalley.