Koral and her family are a jagged, broken thing, but despite all the pain there’s still an undercurrent of hope that they can find a way to patch the pieces back together into something that’s a little better than it was before.Īnother thing I liked about Monsters Born and Made is that it’s suffused with a very strong sub-theme of class/economic disparity, but it conveys its message without seeming forced or condescending. It’s an ambitious undertaking for a debut novel, but one that works throughout the course of the book, mainly because Berwah isn’t afraid to delve into the highs and lows of Koral’s family dynamics. Koral’s relationship with her family is deeply complicated, but sadly familiar in its combination of love and trauma that all too frequently affects those pushed to the margins of society. One of the first things I noticed about Monsters Born and Made was the complexity that Berwah infuses her characters with right from the start.
When Koral and her brother Emrik fail to catch a maristag needed to secure the family’s future, Koral finds herself forced into increasingly dangerous choices to try and keep those she loves alive.
Koral and her family’s livelihood depends on capturing and training maristags for the elite Landers class that runs the island, but as Hunters, they’re looked down upon by both Landers and lower-caste Renters alike the Landers for not being one of them, and the Renters for daring to work with their oppressors. Monsters Born and Made follows the life of sixteen-year-old Koral, a Hunter of the ferocious sea-beast called a “maristag” (kind of like a kelpie-mythical half-horse half-fish-but with a much nastier disposition, poisonous blowdarts, and chompy fangs) that frequent the coastal waters around the island of Sollonia on which she and her family lives. Greetings, readers, it’s time for another book review! This time we’ll be looking at the debut novel from Tanvi Berwah, a gripping tale of struggle and sacrifice in a scorched and hostile world, a story of Monsters Born and Made. Series: The Tales of Gorlen Vizenfirthe.Series: From the Lost Travelers’ Tour Guide.People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!.
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