In book one, she really had to confront her own refusal to see her world and her father with clear eyes. Young: I think it’s especially true in Namesake that Fable surprises herself. She chose her found family in book one, but book two is all about them choosing each other again and again.Ĭulturess: How do you think Fable has changed as a character over the course of this journey she’s on? Namesake also deals a lot with loyalty and the fallout of Fable’s decisions. The two books are like the two sides of Fable and her attempt to figure out who exactly she is and what she wants. Bastian, as readers of Young’s previous works already know, is a major location of many events and the home of several key characters in Namesake.Ĭulturess: How do you feel that Namesake differs from Fable? I realize they’re two halves of the same story, obviously, but they felt like such different books to me.Īdrienne Young: They are really different books! We follow the same main characters, but while Fable is so much of an exploration of the Saint side of Fable, Namesake is much more about her mother Isolde.

It follows the story of a girl named Bryn Roth, who is summoned back to Bastian by her uncle on her eighteenth birthday to join her long-lost family. Her next book, titled The Last Legacy, is a captivating standalone about family and blood ties, reinventing yourself, and controlling your own destiny. Young shared a tantalizing tidbit with us about her future projects – it turns out that Fable and Namesake won’t be the only stories she tells in the high seas, pirate-laden world of these novels. Abandoned to fend herself on an island full of dangerous grifters and cutthroats, she must find her way back to the father who left her there – and figure out who she really is along the way.Ĭulturess got the chance to chat with Young herself about what makes Namesake different from its predecessor, West’s dark turn in this novel, and what’s next for her as a writer – which includes continuing the story of the Fable universe.

Martin’s PressĪuthor Adrienne Young’s Fable duology is a feminist adventure that stands out from the current YA pack thanks to its thrilling, high seas setting and fantastic heroine.Ī story of pirates and found family, Fable follows a young girl’s attempt to survive in a world where no one can be trusted.

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