Forest Born

Title: Forest Born
Author: Shannon Hale
Series: Books of Bayern #4
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Reason Read: Utah Book Month
Rating:

My Thoughts

I really liked FOREST BORN, but not quite as much as the previous three books in the series. Rin, the MC, was younger than the MCs in the other three novels by a couple of years. In a YA novel that may not seem like much, but it is. I couldn’t relate to her as well and I didn’t like that there was no love interest in this one. I also didn’t like the tree-speaking gift quite as much as the wind-, fire-, and water-speaking gifts. The way Hale portrayed the gift was a bit weird to me.

I liked being back in Bayern and I’m so glad Isi, Geric, Enna, Finn, Razo, and Dasha were all in this book in some way or another. I liked being around the speaking gifts and seeing how they all intertwined with one another. And, I liked the elements of the story that required the fire sisters, as Rin calls them, to do what they did.