The two leave the boat and head for the woods, eventually parting ways. Unlucky for us readers, they don’t consummate the winning with an adult situation. Lucky for Neryn, the guy who wins her, Flint, is a stone cold fox. Aboard a chancy boat, or a floating casino, dad is down on his luck with no silvers left to gamble, so like a fool he puts Neryn up as a stake. Unfortunately, Neryn’s father is a hot mess and horribly addicted to gambling and alcohol. They travel from town to town picking up odd day jobs hoping to make enough coin for a warm meal and if lucky, a bed for the night. 15 year old Neryn and her father live on the lam. Perhaps I am a rare bird, but I was hooked from the get go. I am thrilled to say that Shadowfell reminded me why I love Marillier’s books so much. Shadowfell brought me back to when I’d crack open a book and get so lost in it that I would forget the world around me. When I saw Shadowfell on Netgalley, there was no hesitation, there no consideration of the TBR pile, there was a single moment of author adoration and much finger crossing. I was even driven to google the author, and this was in pre-facebook times, y’all. After Daughter Of The Forest, I gobbled up every single Juliet Marillier book in the library and was bereft that they didn’t have more.
I specifically remember because I wrote awful fan poetry and drew awful fan pictures of Simon.
I can remember my first time reading Marillier in 11th grade. The act of reading a Juliet Marillier book feels like a homecoming to me.
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