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Haydon, Elizabeth

The Tree of Water: The Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme

396 pp. | Tor/Starscape | October, 2014 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7653-2059-9 $16.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-4668-6367-5
(4) 4-6 Illustrated by Brandon Dorman. Ven Polypheme, an atypically adventurous Nain (read: hobbit), continues his royally assigned mission of exploration by traveling underseas with his merrow (read: mermaid) friend, Amariel, as his guide. The narrative alternates between exposition of this wondrous new world and an escalating sequence of episodic quests. The journal conceit wears thin, but the evocative world-building remains impressive in this fourth installment.
Reviewer: Claire E. Gross

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