⭐3/5
Author:Claire Mcfall
Pages: 464
Saga: Ferryman #1
Publishing House: Templar Publishing
ISBN: 9781782504344
Synopsis
Dylan has escaped a horrific train crash unscathed.
Except she hasn't.
The bleak landscape around her isn't Scotland. It's a wasteland haunted by wraiths searching for human souls.
And the stranger waiting for her isn't an ordinary boy. Tristan is a Ferryman, tasked with transporting her soul safely to the afterlife, a journey he's made a thousand times before.
Except this time, something's different.
Torn between love and destiny, Dylan realises she can't let Tristan go, nor can she stay with him. Eventually, inevitably, the wraiths would capture her soul and she would be lost forever.
Can true love overcome the boundaries of death?
Ferryman is a thought-provoking and truly original story of a love that refuses to be limited by death. This stunning, award-winning debut novel is being reissued to coincide with the publication of the eagerly-anticipated sequel, Trespassers.
"There was no adrenaline in the fear I felt"
-Ferryman, Claire McFall
Opinion
Dreamers 🍂🌙 I want to tell you that I read this book because I saw an interview with the author on Puck's Instagram, where she told us about her book and how excited she was because it was going to arrive in Spanish. I knew the fact that it was going to be full of romance, but, I read it for the fact that it was based on the myth of Charon, the ferryman of Hades, so well I gave it a try.
Well, my disappointment was very great when I did not find anything related to Greek mythology, plus the fact that Tristan was a boatman who takes souls to the other side. I was very hopeful, but ended up disappointed by this fact.
The moor
I liked the path that souls must undertake in order to reach the other side, unique for each one, but the same for all. A journey of understanding and acceptance.
For Dylan this meant landscapes of Scotland that were beautiful to read.
Characters
Dylan, our protagonist, has a mind that envisions the future and moves on. But, what I did not like was her insensitivity when knowing that she had died, the fact that she only thought about her most of the time and only a couple of times about her beings that she had left in the underworld. It was unrealistic in this story.
In addition to the fact that as the story goes, she becomes dependent on Tristan, a fact that I did not like at all. Even though they were both a pretty couple and easily one that would have shipped.
Tristan is more focused on work and his duty, but thanks to Dylan he realizes that it doesn't have to be this way and he begins to think more about what he really wants.
"The valley was a treacherous stretch."
-Ferryman, Claire McFall
History
This story tells us more than anything the journey that Tristan and Dylan make to reach the afterlife, there is not much action, nor as many tests to overcome as I imagined at the beginning. Although, I have to admit that I liked those creatures they had to deal with and the way the author narrates these few action scenes that took place in the story.
Conclusion.
The ferryman of souls is a story of romance, that although the book is sold to us as based on the myth of Carole, it has almost nothing of the Greek mythology. A story of a journey without return, and an impossible love.
It's not really one of my favorite books this year, even though I loved the cover. And it is not certain that she will read the continuation of this book, in any case the publisher decides to publish it.
Have you already read this book? What did you think? Without much to say about this book I leave the Dreamers😄
-Fer 🌻🌻
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