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Flight of Blue (Keeper of the Keys Chronicles Book 1) Kindle Edition
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Kai and Ellie embark on a journey to return the sorcerer to his home. Entangled in events that could destroy the world, Kai must choose whether to accept the role he was born to play, but isn’t sure he wants.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJuly 19, 2012
- File size628 KB
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"Evokes memories of epic adventure tales and magic realms we pretend not to imagine as adults... The story makes us think about the reality of the world in the way a good Sci-Fi book does while providing comic relief though a self important, naked Opossum." -Kate Tagai, blogger
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- ASIN : B008N5QLT8
- Publication date : July 19, 2012
- Language : English
- File size : 628 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 351 pages
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About the author

Anna Elisabeth Howard (A.E. Howard) writes highly caffeinated takes on shalom as a lens for everything from her front porch in Hendersonville, TN where she lives with her husband and two sons. She is a community organizer and movement chaplain with a background in youth and family ministry and is a graduate of Fuller Theological Seminary. You can find her at @aehowardwrites on Twitter.
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The author establishes a wonderful sense of place and history with her setting. She gives enough fantastic elements and sprinkles in just the right dollop of juicy lore for the reader to feel satisfied, while leaving you craving more of the expansive world she has created. Pacing is solid and I found Kai's narrative voice to be likeable and just right.
Many other reviewers mentioned Reginald the possum, and I really liked him as well. So much so, I wanted to see more of him in the book. Hopefully, book two will give him a larger role as he is a memorable character. And this is from someone who finds possums both creepy and cute, but really more creepy than anything else. To get me to enjoy Reginald is saying a lot. If A.E. Howard keeps this up, she'll write kindly snakes into her next book and have me rethinking my Indiana-Jones-sized dislike of said serpents.
Sebastian and Eben are wonderful companions for our heroes and they round out the cast with an endearing ragtag panache.
I found I wanted to know more of Shadrach's past, which is good as it promises to figure in greatly to Kai and his true role in this series. The magic has rhythm and logic and never feels false. It's also given weight and respect, something that is often missing from other fantasy novels.
Flight of Blue is a confident romp with loads of dastardly doing, creepy ne'er-do-wells and the element that always makes a book series memorable to me, heart.
While the stakes are grim, the book doesn't feel unapproachably intense and off-putting. It plays out its dangers with realism and a nod to adventure that doesn't have to deal in death tolls and grisly displays. Not that I don't enjoy books with those elements, I just always sit back and smile when I find a book that is all-ages and still has stakes that maintain suspense and interest.
I can't wait to read the next book in this fine series.
It honestly took me a couple chapters to get used to the author's conversational, almost casual narrative. But once I did, I was drawn in and almost felt like I was beginning to dialogue with the author and the characters themselves, asking, "what's next?" Or, "..and then what??". Questions that were somehow both answered and multiplied with the turn of the page or the end of the chapter.
Howard builds the set for a magical world that some may liken to Harry Potter but makes us see our own world with fresh, wondering eyes. Her characters are relate-able, quirky and likeable and most importantly, grow in maturity and depth by the end of book one. Both children and adults can enjoy and learn from Flight of Blue, since it draws on the importance of courage, friendship and of course, being nice to animals ;) Book one is very strong in it's own right and gives a leap of excitement as we hold our breath for book two and plunge deeper into a new realm A.E. Howard has created for us.
The Harry Potter comparisons are definitely valid. I know that I will probably re-read this book at least half a dozen times. The symbology and "other world" parallels are intense. A.E. Howard has put a new perspective on the realms of "good vs evil" that should not be missed. Each additional reading will bring more of them out.
It's almost unbearable (a la HP) to have to wait a year for Book 2 to be released. I am so looking forward to the character development of Kai and Elle in the rest of the trilogy.