The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no?
And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no?
Doesn't that make life a story?
- Yann Martel, Life of Pi
I fell in love with [b:Finnikin of the Rock|4932435|Finnikin of the Rock (Lumatere Chronicles #1)|Melina Marchetta|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1346007613s/4932435.jpg|4998084]. I thought, this is writing, these are characters, this is storytelling! But if that story on its own was amazing, the combined epic that was [b:Froi of the Exiles|10165727|Froi of the Exiles (Lumatere Chronicles, #2)|Melina Marchetta|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1306866851s/10165727.jpg|15064442] and [b:Quintana of Charyn|10165761|Quintana of Charyn (Lumatere Chronicles, #3)|Melina Marchetta|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1331187719s/10165761.jpg|15064476] was better.