The Dream-Pedlars Parade
Mark Bowsher, 2025
594 pages
Read in 2025.04
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🔽 Intro and review summary 🔽
✔ Young adult series, Myrthali series book 2
✔ Adventure of a not so confident boy
✔ SF, magical, coming of age
★★★★★ Second Myrthali book. The first was more physically challenging and about finding his stronger self, and the second is more about doubting, the scenes are darker.
🔽 Book review and notes 🔽
Second Myrthali book.
The first was great, and this second one is even better.
As it was suggested, this is certainly darker, and it makes sense as Krish has grown up since his first adventure.
The first was more physically challenging and about finding his stronger self, and the second is more about doubting, the scenes are darker (also literally, it's the endless nighttime) and the protagonist more mature.
Must say, I simply love that his partner came back!
I love the fact that the story background subtly challenges the "typicalness" - his own race (though importantly, this is not a story of "a journey of an Indian boy" it is a "journey of a boy who wants to save his mother") or that disability of some characters are clearly stated, and it quietly challenges the gender stereotype, as well as other stereotypes like age or ability, without making it about it.
It's full of imagination, I'd say more than the book 1, it is rather long-ish being over 500 pages, but doesn't feel like it, it's full of thoughts and actions... and well, we'll all have to wait for the book 3!
🔽 Where to buy 🔽
●●● Amazon.com (US) ●●●
The Dream-Pedlars' Parade: Book 2 in the exhilarating Myrthali series
●●● Amazon.co.uk (UK) ●●●
The Dream-Pedlars' Parade: Book 2 in the exhilarating Myrthali series
●●● Amazon.it (Italy) ●●●
The Dream-Pedlars' Parade: Book 2 in the exhilarating Myrthali series
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