Tag: Grant Cartwright

Quintana of Charyn

by Melina Marchetta (Viking, 2012)

audiobook read by Grant Cartwright (Bolinda, 2012)

Marchetta crafts a fitting conclusion to the Lumatere Chronicles, investing readers in protagonists at once flawed and fettered and subjecting these to near-cataclysms brought about (mostly) by the brash, presumptuous leadership of men. The outcome is a powerful, sublimely feminist YA fantasy.

Froi of the Exiles

by Melina Marchetta (Viking, 2011)

audiobook read by Grant Cartwright (ABC Audio, 2012)

Marchetta’s trilogy goes from strength to strength. The shift of protagonists allows for reinvention within the fantasy framework, but the biggest contribution to genre remains the subversive female perspective stitched between threads. A long novel but one that demands to be read.