The main character, Emrys, is a wimpy young boy around the age of thirteen. Barron has done an unbelievably great job at creating the characters: Emrys, Rhia, Trouble, Shim, Branwen… I love them all dearly. They are yours to use, a gift from above.”, T. “Whatever you did, you did from your powers. Once he enters the Isle he finds that there is much more to his past than he could have ever imagined, and that he needs to help the Isle of Fincayra to discover it. The ocean takes him to the mysterious and magical Isle of Fincayra. Years later, Emrys leaves his mother, Branwen, on a quest to find who he is and where he comes from.
I really enjoyed reading this novel and miss the beautiful world of Fincayra.Ī young boy, Emrys, washes ashore with no memory of who he is or where he came from. Barron is intriguing, magical, and an excellent read. (Sept.The Lost Years of Merlin (Book #1 of a twelve-part series) by T. Others may find this attempt to create a biography for Merlin less of an organic novel than a showcase for the author's deft recycling of Welsh myth.
Merlin learns of his Fincayran birthright, but in the clumsily handled conclusion he looks off into the future (and to the planned sequel), having decided that although he has found his past and his identity he has not found his ""true home."" Some readers-mostly teens or adults-will be looking eagerly with him. This part of the tale draws heavily on the Welsh Mabinogion some of Merlin's adventures thus resemble Taran's in Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles, which also uses that body of legend.
There he gets drawn into a great conflict between good and evil, and the story mutates into a high fantasy quest populated by weird and mythic creatures. After some misadventures when his supernatural powers develop, he decides to set about ""finding my past, my identity."" Somehow he makes his way across the ocean to Fincayra, a strange place not quite of this world. Merlin himself narrates, at first in realistic mode as a child called Emrys in a grubby village in Wales, where he had washed ashore five years earlier he is haunted by his inability to remember his earlier life. In this coming-of-age fantasy, Barron (The Merlin Effect) investigates what he perceives as the mystery of the great enchanter's little-mentioned childhood and adolescence.
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