Whispers In The Wind

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Description

A soft song, spun on the wind, torments an isolated town.A family of witches sailing across the sea, attempt a new route through uncharted waters, when the storms of fate see fit to alter their destination.What secrets haunt this silent corner of the world where no music is allowed? Are they best left as whispers in the wind?

A mostly family friendly fantasy adventure mystery, sure to give you duckbumps.

Sword fighting is family friendly right?

TL;DR Hounds of Baskerville meets the Famous Five, but with dragons.

This is written for the Royal Road Community Magazine competition.

Information

Status: Completed
Year: 2023
Author: Saiph

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.3/ 5.0
Followers: 19
Views: 11,728

Chapters(28 total)

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Hypocrisy IncarnateRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
before I get into the meat of this yap, I shall first outline my Bias as best as I can. the first of these is that I saw Saiph on the forums and thought it would be fun to annoy them in their comments section, and so I decided to read their fiction. (well, the main reason was some mental practice with rhyming, and I just picked Saiph because I could, but the former is funnier so I'm rolling with that.) I don't believe that strongly influenced my perception of the text, but it is a possibility. another thing is that I am an absolute gremlin for worldbuilding, so this most definitely tickled my brain a bit. possibly most important for a text like this, is the fact that I loathe poetry so, so much. poetry has wronged me enough times that although I do enjoy a good poem, seeing enough poetry makes me want to scream :P next is the fact I tend to be quite critical and I reserve handing out a 5 for when a fiction takes a club to my head and rips my socks off :)
with that out of the way, let's begin.
STYLE:
throughout the beginning of the text the author uses the world itself more heavily to describe the goings of said world and the characters. this engages the readers brain enough to get them to dig deeper into the text. there is also a bit more flavor to the conversations, they are busier and by having more insight into exactly how the characters are talking it keeps the monotony of words like asked at bay. although neither of these two are particularly strong in the beginning, it is there and enough to the point where it makes the text quite cozy. although this falls behind in the later chapters I still believe style is worth the 4 stars. this is because of the poetry and songs incorporated into most chapters.
The pieces the author uses explore not only the world and it's folklore but the characters themselves. the tale a drunkard spews or the melody the father brings, they open up the characters and develops them in such an engaging way that it kind of contradicts the d