Book profile
Fable
- Subgenre
- romantasy
- Edition year
- 2020-09-01
- Rating
- ★ 3.9 · 160 ratingsExternal reader rating · Hardcover
- Spice
- Heat not verified
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Seventeen-year-old Fable, daughter of a powerful Narrows trader, has survived four years on a dangerous island populated by thieves after witnessing her mother’s drowning and being abandoned by her father. Using skills her mother taught her, she recruits trader West to escort her across the treacherous Narrows to confront her father and claim her rightful place on his crew, only to discover West is hiding his true identity and that her father’s rivalries have made their voyage a fight for survival. The pair must navigate deadly seas, looming threats, and their evolving bond to stay alive.
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- Coming of Age: “As the daughter of the most powerful trader in the Narrows, the sea is the only home seventeen-year-old Fable has ever known.” source
- Hidden Identity: “Fable soon finds that West isn't who he seems.” source
- Quest: “To do so Fable enlists the help of a young trader named West to get her off the island and across the Narrows to her father.” source
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Content notes
- death of parent
Heat and content-note sources
death of parent: “It’s been four years since the night she watched her mother drown during an unforgiving storm.” Source
