The Summer time of Festivals by Maddie Jane
My score: 3 of 5 stars
3.5 stars
The Summer time Of Festivals: Music Of The Druids is guide one in all a fantasy story primarily based round an island stated to be the house of banished druids.
Nineteen-year-old Alyosha Kamenev has a secret; drawn to the druid island and determined for solutions, he borrows a ship and sails to the island the place he hopes to seek out some assist.
The island is a spot of horrors and a mixture of unusual folks; some with magical expertise, others residing a pre-technology life. Alyosha’s journey follows a quest type in style in lots of fantasy tales, though it’s pretty slow-paced with pockets of motion. The world constructing works effectively to a degree, however there are numerous characters to maintain abreast of and I struggled to maintain pictures of every little thing in my head.
One factor which bothered me was how giant the island appeared, with days passing in journey but solely a small portion of the island being traversed. Maybe I missed an area illusional aspect, like stepping inside Dr Who’s Tardis, however I imagined a small island which could possibly be coated in a few days. 
That is an okay story, there are numerous good descriptive passages, however the story and characters didn’t actually seize me as a lot as I had hoped.
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Guide description
Nineteen-year-old Alyosha Kamenev has lived in Isle Meridian off the coast of South Carolina since he was eight years outdated. Having fled as a refugee from his residence nation of Enriya after an invasion by neighboring Russia, he ultimately learns to name a life within the tropics his personal. Regardless of having the brilliant white hair of his folks, Alyosha integrates absolutely into the tradition of the Meridians, even transferring in along with his greatest buddy, Loren Merrik, and his household throughout their center college years.
When infidelity rattles the dynamic of the Merrik household and sends them down divergent paths from each other, Alyosha finds himself affected by instability as soon as once more. Issues are difficult additional when he has a deadly encounter with Loren’s uncle, Maiser Vance, which can or is probably not accountable for a pointy decline in his well being.
Now lonely and sick, Alyosha makes an attempt the irrational to resolve the consequences of the sickness by pursuing the one clue left behind by Maiser — a single piece of paper written in a lifeless language of the Celtic Druids, and Isle Meridian’s sister island, All Saints Island, the place the Druids have lived in isolation for over two centuries.
