Scinan Legacy: C. 1-9

by Kathy Blackledge Pickel

Overview

Scinan Legacy is uniquely intentional.

An epic adventure for all that is respectfully designed with specific neurodiverse reading comforts. Its ebook format contains consecutive chapters throughout the series, expanded descriptions of characters' emotions and motivations, and reading enjoyment for those who experience languages as melodies.

Innovation has stopped.

Change, or the lack of it, has gone unnoticed- by most.

Few know the truth. King Wodan's desire to obtain all knowledge has destroyed the balance of nature throughout the universe.

Two unknowing players, Dagen Ságaher and seer-born Ellor Kitaj, are thrown together by the forces of fate in a quest that spans the Nine Worlds and beyond. Can their serendipitous connection help save existence from a dead future? Can we be kynd to each other?

Based on Anglo-Saxon and Germanic legends, Scinan Legacy transcends its origins to a new realm of fantasy and magic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781736860014
Publisher:	Oblique Creative, LLC
Publication date:	11/02/2021
Series:	Scinan Legacy , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	252
File size:	646 KB
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Kathy Blackledge Pickel lives in Knoxville, TN with her family and several gargoyles. Her love for fantasy and science fiction began at a very young age and inspired her curiosity for creating. She is the owner of Oblique Creative, LLC. Kathy has a professional background in graphic design and several years of experience in implementing neurodevelopmental therapies. She is also one of many individuals within the neurodivergent community. Storytelling is a relatively new adventure for her. When she isn't writing, teaching, designing, or dreaming, she can often be found rescuing saplings, subjecting family and friends to her experimental cooking, and encouraging imaginings into existence.

Editorial Reviews

09/27/2021

Pickel opens her debut fantasy series with a fresh, powerful hook: Thanks to King Wodan’s quest to possess all knowledge, the Nine Realms have stagnated, entering an era marked by “perpetual lack of creativity and invention”—new ideas and significant change are literally impossible. Amusingly, most denizens of the worlds ruled by Wodan haven’t noticed this 25 years later. As Queen Frija and the seers of the Order of the Tjetajat search the Realms for a solution, four young people in the realm of Midangard find themselves on the cusp of adulthood and adult responsibilities with little inkling that they’ll soon be swept up in the fate of the Realms themselves.

The series stands out for its author’s dedication to “specific neurodiverse reading comforts.” Pickel notes that she’s telling this story over multiple books but with consistent chapter numbers and pagination. Thinking of the hefty Scinan Legacy as the first nine chapters of a longer book rather than as a standalone might help readers who find the pacing slow even for epic fantasy. These pages are devoted to friendship and world-building, but of the most inviting sort. In that same preface Pickel promises that she has crafted the novel for readers who prefer “expanded descriptions of characters’ emotions and motivations.” So these characters are thoroughly, engagingly drawn, at times explained to the point of redundancy.

The Realms, too, are presented with welcoming imagination. Pickel guides readers through this world as her her quartet of likely heroes-to-be--three young men and one young woman, a seer accompanied by a wonderful shape-shifting pal called a pucca—tour a sort of fantasy Worlds Fair, lingering in pavilions dedicated to the many sharply drawn cultures. The plot picks up 200 pages in, when the two chief protagonists connect at last—a connection that might shake the Realms. Fantasy fans comfortable with the cozy pace will be eager for the next (literal) chapter.

Takeaway: This new epic fantasy series prioritizes friendship, character, and clarity as it reveals a fascinating world gone stagnant.

Great for fans of:Robin Hobb, Katherine Kurtz.

Production grades Cover: A- Design and typography: A Illustrations: A Editing: A- Marketing copy: B+

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