'The Viscount's Son is perfect for a quick, interesting read. The novelette is a fictional blog that tells the story of book conservator, Emma, and her online project - to transcribe an ancient and mysterious text. The trouble is, Emma's colleague, Jack, believes the medieval 'diary' is a fake. Emma decides to translate the text and leave it up to her readers to decide - so what will you think? Follow Emma's journey to discern the mysteries of the medieval memoir.
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From Smashwords - Review by Kirshy McAinch (5 stars)
If this is a first effort then I can't wait
for the next instalment from Aderyn. I found this novelette incredibly
enchanting and yet easy to read at the same time. The format of the blog style
narrative was very clever and transitioned seamlessly. I was particularly
impressed with the knowledge of the Latin language and English history and with
a slight blush of my cheeks, admit that I found the sensual aspects of this
story, quite captivating! Can't wait for the sequel Aderyn.
From WebFiction Guide - Review by Verydian
I am the type of reader who enjoys most
things fantasy, but what drew me to this story, was not only its familial
fantasy genre, but also the obvious historical atmosphere as well.
"Historical fantasy" is not something I see very much of on the web,
whether from my inattention, or its lack of popularity, you be the judge, but I
was quite excited to begin reading . . . .
The author of the piece Aderyn Wood has
only just begun to post the ‘fictional blog’, with only four chapters to date,
but I still found it intriguing enough to swallow me into her world.
The story itself starts off with the
narrator introducing herself as Emma, a book conservator at an unnamed famous
museum in an unnamed famous city, hmm . . . ..Through
chance she acquires an old diary thought to be from the 16th century, but
apparently deemed fake by her colleague Jack for some particular reasons. The
diary itself is in Latin, so in each of the chapters—which is Emma posting on
an online blog—Emma tells the reader a brief telling of her own personal life
usually relating to the book, and then an entry.
What makes it so interesting and enjoyable
to read is the fact that although the important bits are really the diary
entries, you also begin to enjoy Emma as well, as Aderyn writes enough detail about
Emma’s encounters that she develops her own quirky little personality (oh the
AC unit!). For me, it arouses the desire to see what’s also going to happen
with Emma, not just the Viscount’s son.
Aderyn’s wording is clean and descriptive
which I like, because she gets to the point, but uses enough detail that you
can clearly visualize what it is the character’s are talking about as well as
their setting. It’s also obvious, in my opinion that either Aderyn knows a lot
about museum book conserving or she did enough research on the subject to make
sure you believe that Emma might actually be of that occupation. The
translations of the entries are nicely worded to seem like it might be from the
16th century as well with more classical descriptions.
I felt that at a few points, I was hoping
for the story to pick up a bit as far as the diary went, but I also think that
it is a work to ease into since the chapters are short, and there’s only four
of them. The entries could still maybe be longer and/or contain more content,
but that might be my own personal taste. So far, I can begin to see hints of
the supernatural, but whether it full on becomes more fantasy, I will have to
wait and see.
Overall, I feel this webfic is great, and
I’m looking forward to reading more from it. At this point in the game, I say
it’s too early to tell where exactly the story is going, whether Emma plays a
bigger role aside from translator, and if the author plans on writing longer
entries in the diary, but the story is still intriguing and gives you something
to think about if you enjoy history
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