It's fun to imagine you are a fairy, fluttering around with cardboard wings and pretend fairy dust. But what would it be like if that fantasy suddenly became a reality? Madelina, a young girl who grew up living in poverty, finds a lantern tucked behind the dumpster where she searches for scraps of food each day. When she lights the wick, the world she knows disappears and she finds herself in a foreign land with strange creatures who seem to think that she is the hope that they have been waiting for. In this new world, her cardboard wings have transformed into real wings and she is floating several feet off of the ground. There to welcome her to the land of Wymzi is a tree nymph named Treph who becomes her freind and leads her on a journey to find out about this new world she has entered... all the while trying to stay safe from the evil plots of the wicked Queen Nakasha and her minions. The Lantern of Rahela is a tale of a nobody discovering new abilities inside herself and, in the process, becoming the hope that all of Wymzi has long been waiting for.
What do you think? Is this a book you would read? What sentences do you most like? What sentences do you think should be changed? What do you feel is lacking? What questions does this synopsis leave you wondering? I hope to hear from many of you. Thank you all for your help! Keep reading and keep writing!
And may the story rise up to meet you!
