But time is running out…Īs with all of Sophies’ books, this one is filled with magic, where old stories meet new and heart pulses across every page. She and her new-found friends race across its’ kingdom domes, seeking clues and tools to save them all. Olia is destined to save this land, to find the wizard and untangle the magic and put everything to right. It too is crumbling and threatening to take Castle Mila with it…along with everyone she loves.
It is a land tangled by magic where hope has been lost and an ancient wizard holds all the power. And Olia, with the help of the castles’ domovoi (protective spirit), discovers a magical doorway to another land, The Land of Forbidden Magic. Suddenly, storms that begin to batter her beloved old home, the walls crumble and the domes begin to fall. And Olias’ 13 years have been spent looking for ways into each dome and listening to the castles’ stories, peppered with myth and legend. It’s a little crooked with age, but still gleams like gold with endless roof domes that sparkle and shimmer as they reach for the sky. (Mar.Olia has lived all her life in Castle Mila a five-hundred year old castle made of entirely of wood. Again drawing on Slavic myth, Anderson ( The Girl Who Speaks Bear) writes an intimately cadenced adventure, rendering the magically charged setting a character of its own while emphasizing themes of perspective, family legacy, and following one’s gut. To save her home and prevent a catastrophe, Olia must join with several nature spirits to fight the wizard. But as the magic seeks to break through castle and realm, both are in danger of being destroyed forever. While her carpenter parents maintain the ancient structure, which is built entirely of wood and boasts 13 domes, narrator Olia, an artist, delights in discovering its secrets and seeking her way into the domes, which her Babusya insists “are filled with magic that has been locked away from the world.” When a terrible storm threatens the building, Olia and her new companion, a foxlike domovoi named Feliks, must travel to the Land of Forbidden Magic-a realm locked away following a rivalry between a wizard and one of Olia’s ancestors.
Even though a revolution a century earlier ended with a “fallen throne,” 13-year-old Olia’s formerly royal family, which reads as white, has continued to dwell in Castle Mila leading up to its 500th birthday.
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