The
Wysman
by Dorothy A. Winsor
Genre: YA Fantasy
Release Date: June 27th 2020
Inspired Quill Publishing
Summary:
"The Grabber is just a fright tale."
Former street kid Jarka was born with a crooked foot and uses a crutch, but that no longer matters now that he's an apprentice Wysman, training to advise the king. When poor kids start to go missing from the city's streets, though, Jarka suspects that whatever's causing the disappearances comes from the castle.
Now he needs to watch his step or risk losing the position he fought so hard to win... but when someone close to him becomes the latest victim, Jarka knows he's running out of time.
His search takes him from diving into ancient history to standing up to those who want to beat or bleed the magic out of him. Will Jarka succeed in uncovering an evil long-hidden, or will he see friends and family vanish into the darkness? And whose side is the King on, in his determination to bind his nobles to him no matter what black arts they've dabbled in? If Jarka fails in his search, his own future won't be the worst thing lost.
The Wysman follows Jarka after the events in The Wind Reader, but this YA Fantasy can be read independently.
by Dorothy A. Winsor
Genre: YA Fantasy
Release Date: June 27th 2020
Inspired Quill Publishing
Summary:
"The Grabber is just a fright tale."
Former street kid Jarka was born with a crooked foot and uses a crutch, but that no longer matters now that he's an apprentice Wysman, training to advise the king. When poor kids start to go missing from the city's streets, though, Jarka suspects that whatever's causing the disappearances comes from the castle.
Now he needs to watch his step or risk losing the position he fought so hard to win... but when someone close to him becomes the latest victim, Jarka knows he's running out of time.
His search takes him from diving into ancient history to standing up to those who want to beat or bleed the magic out of him. Will Jarka succeed in uncovering an evil long-hidden, or will he see friends and family vanish into the darkness? And whose side is the King on, in his determination to bind his nobles to him no matter what black arts they've dabbled in? If Jarka fails in his search, his own future won't be the worst thing lost.
The Wysman follows Jarka after the events in The Wind Reader, but this YA Fantasy can be read independently.
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My Review:
Jarka is training to be a Wysman so that he can advise the prince
when he becomes king. Jarka is a wind reader meaning he can do magic
with all the elements of the wind. Jarka was born with a crooked foot
and uses a crutch to get around with. As a kid Jarka lived on the
streets.
Someone
is snatching poor kids off the city streets. Jarka has
a lead as to where the kidnapper may be but must watch his step in
his investigation as it could cost him his job as an adviser to the
future king if
he is not careful.
Jarka has his suspicions as to who the kidnapper may be.
A
couple of the kids runs away so Jarka goes to fetch them back. The
kids tell Jarka that they saw the Grabber. Jarka tries to tell the
kids that the Grabber is not real but
the kids are adamant that they saw the Grabber and that he is very
real.
The
Wysman is a fast paced read that kept me glued to my seat from
beginning to end. The Wysman may be a fast read but it was slow in
revealing its secrets keeping you hanging on wanting to know more
trying to figure out how it all was going to turn out.
I
was really amazed and mesmerized with Jarka’s wind reading as
reading the wind with the elements the way he did was a new twists
for me. The Wysman is an enchanting read that will capture your
attention from the first page pulling you into its world where you
become lost.
I
recommend The Wysman to anyone who likes fantasy with lots mystery
between its pages. One click your copy today!
About
the Author
For
about a dozen years, Dorothy A. Winsor taught technical writing at
Iowa State University and served as the editor of the Journal
of Business and Technical Communication,
but then she decided writing middle-grade (MG) and young adult (YA)
fantasy was more fun.
The
Wind Reader
was published by Inspired Quill in fall 2018. Her previous novels
include Finders
Keepers (2015)
and Deep
as a Tomb (2016).
Her short stories have appeared in Swords
and Sorcery Magazine,
Bards
and Sages Quarterly,
and FrostFire
Worlds.
She
lives near Chicago with her husband, who engineers tractors, and has
one son, the person who first introduced her to the pleasure of
reading fantasy. Her deepest secret is that she once wrote over a
million words of Lord of the Rings fanfiction.
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