#Sponsored I thought you might enjoy seeing a new book I had the opportunity to read thanks to the Author and Voracious readers who sent me a PDF Copy of Journey To Osm: The Blue Unicorn’s Tale by Sybrina Durant (Author), Travis Erwin (Editor), Sudipta Dasgupta (Illustrator) for this review. Inside this post is my affiliate links if you click on the links and make a purchase I will make a small percentage off the products you purchase.
Journey To Osm: The Blue Unicorn’s Tale is a book about Unicorns and I could see sharing the story with my nice Lily who is 9 and loves Unicorns just as I do. Along with my nephew Jason and even Charlie because this is a clean book, suitable for children and adults of all ages and the book does contain non-graphic violence. If were to be asked what genre of this book is I would say a YA fantasy book,
In the land of MarBryn, the unicorns have a simple division of power. If you have no metal in your horn, it means you have no magic. When Blue is born, his tribe believes he is their savior due to a prophecy by the oracle, but when he is born with no metal in his horn, his tribe despairs. Blue grows up understanding this and works every day to train to be the best fighter in the tribe, magic or not. His will and courage might just have to be enough to free the unicorns from the evil sorcerer Magh before they are all extinct.
About the book:
No Metal Means No Magic in the magical metal-horned unicorn tribe.
Can a unicorn with neither manage to save his tribe from extinction?
If you enjoyed reading Lord of the Rings, Alice In Wonderland or even Watership Downs, you might just love this purely fanciful unicorn fantasy about a tribe of unicorns stranded a universe away from their home world of Unimaise. It is full of magic, adventure and sciencey stuff plus a little bit of love and war.
Facing extinction, the Metal-Horned Unicorns of MarBryn are desperate for hope. Any hope. . .So when the Oracle reveals the prophecy promising just that, the remaining members of the tribe pin their future on the birth of a young foal. Hope becomes despair when the baby unicorn is born without metal. . .because without metal there is no magic. And without magic, this little blue newborn has no chance to defeat the evil sorcerer that has imprisoned all of MarBryn. Magh’s rule proves both harsh and brutal and by the time Blue comes of age there are only twelve metal-horns left in all of MarBryn. Eleven can claim some form of metal based magic. . .but one must get by on sheer grit, will, and the desire to avenge his parents untimely deaths. Like most of the metal-horns, Blue disregards the prophecy as nonsense, but driven by his insecurities, he covertly trains for a fight he’s ill-equipped to win.And then hope comes back around. For Blue…For the Metal Horn Unicorns of MarBryn …But can a unicorn with no metal … no magic … answer the call of fate?
The Blue Unicorn’s Journey To Osm Illustrated book was a feast for the eyes but the story was short and left readers wanting to know more. This novel is the expanded version of that story.
If you read it and love it, please share your thoughts with others. Here’s what others have had to say about it”
REVIEW QUOTES
“There are so many wonderful fantasy books to choose from that it’s really quite hard to sort the wheat from the chaff, but Sybrina Durant has created something truly original.”
“Durant brings wit and a compelling level of suspense that makes for an absorbing narrative, but it’s the depth she brings to her characters that makes Journey To Osm such a special read.”
“The first thing that I absolutely loved about this tale was the prophecy-gone-wrong concept at its very beginning. Throughout the book,author Sybrina Durant subverts the norms of this kind of high fantasy,breaking many tropes, but then bringing in others to surprise you at just the right moment.”
Meet the Author: Sybrina Durant
Visit my Amazon store to see my Unicorn Reader/Writer collection of products – Sybrina Publishing at amazon dot com slash stores slash page slash 686BB824-052C-4B4E-99C3-CD2B8FCFBA8D and my Amazon Influencer Shop for gift inspiration ideals at amazon dot com slash shop slash influencer-6257530a and my blog at sybrina dot com for lots more.
The books I’ve written span a wide range between illustrated picture books, coloring books and YA novels to technical and how-to books.
My latest efforts are fanciful illustrated periodic table books. In the 1st one, magical metal horn unicorns introduce readers to 26 elements of the periodic table. In the 2nd one, elemental dragons do the presenting. Magical Elements of the Periodic Table books were created to help make learning science more fun for your tweens and teens.
My Learn To Tie With The Rabbit and The Fox series of books include “Learn To Tie With The Rabbit and the Fox” which is available in English, Spanish and Tagalog plus a special little book to gift to boys in a wedding party. “Nellie Knows How To Knot A Neck Scarf”, “Ned Knows How To Knot A Neck Tie”, “Cleo Can Tie A Bow” and “Boo’s Shoes” are also part of the series. Visit The Rabbit and The Fox Book Store on her blog to browse those books plus “Learn To Tie” books by lots of other authors. sybrina dot com slash the-rabbit-and-the-fox-book-store
My Blue Unicorn series of books include the novel – “Journey To Osm – The Blue Unicorn’s Tale”, “The Blue Unicorn’s Journey To Osm Illustrated Book” in color and also in black and white, “Unicorns From Unimaise”, “Lil’ Metal Horn Unicorns” plus a whole bunch of notebooks in the Unicorn Writer series. Visit sybrina dot com slashsybrinas-unicorn-book-store-main to find unicorn books by lots of other authors and unicorn themed gifts.
I am also the author of “Sybrina’s Phrase Thesaurus” – a 4 volume set of phrases to help overcome writer’s block, “123 Count With Me” and “Yarashell Abbily and Her Very Messy Room.”
Enjoy!
Thank you, Glenda, Charle and David Cates
