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Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Beasts Of Extraordinary Circumstances by Ruth Emmie Lang
Not everyone is average. It's taking Weylyn Grey a while to realize that. Most children grow up in loving families and do all the normal childhood things like going to school, trick and treating, waiting for Santa, playing with their friends and learning to become adults from their parents. Weylyn has a different route. He grows up living with a wolf pack after his parents are killed. He doesn't go to school and has no touchpoint with the usual childhood activities. He doesn't have human friends until Mary finds him in the woods and befriends him.
But Weylyn knows his way is different. Strange things happen around him. Like having a horned pig for a pet. Like having snowstorms come up from nowhere and drop inches of snow in a short time. Like being able to stop a tornado or a hurricane or regrowing timber that was cut overnight. The strangeness keeps others away and on the few occasions when Weylyn makes an attempt to be included, he soon pulls away himself to protect others from the natural disasters that seem to follow him around. Can he ever find love?
Ruth Emmie Lang has written a charming book about an unforgettable charcter. Weylyn draws the reader in and they cannot but help cheering him on, even as they experience the fact that his otherness seems to be the barrier that will forever keep him apart. The connections between characters and the happenstances that are unreal but seem perfectly formed make this a book few will forget. This book is recommended for fantasy readers.
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