In addition to the characters, Sarah Fine has also crafted an interesting world with high stakes politics and religious ideologies.
Readers may not be able to relate to the specifics of her situation, but many will recognize Elli’s struggles with her own version of Impostor Syndrome. But she is also scared, she makes mistakes and she doubts herself. She’s kind and brave and at times a force to be reckoned with. Elli, the protagonist of the story, is particularly well rounded. The characters, both good and evil, are layered and complex. But The Impostor Queen grabbed me right from the start. It feels like element-based magic systems are all over YA fantasy right now, and at times the stories can feel repetitive or even stale. Fearing for her life she escapes the city, not realizing the much bigger events she’s set in motion. But when the time finally comes for her to embrace her powers they’re nowhere to be found. Ever since she was a child Elli has been in training with the Elders of Kupari and one day she will succeed the Valtia and protect the Kupari people with her command of fire and ice.
At the heart of this new novel is a young girl named Elli. As deadly accidents fuel tensions within the factory, Wen is torn between her growing feelings for Melik, who is enraged at the sadistic factory bosses and the prejudice faced by his people at the hand of Wen's, and her need to appease the ghost, who is determined to protect her against any threat - real or imagined.In her new novel, The Impostor Queen, Sarah Fine takes readers on an exciting, emotional and political fantasy adventure. At the same time, she is lured by the mystery of the ghost. Guilt-ridden, Wen befriends the Noor, including the outspoken leader, a young man named Melik. And after one of the Noor humiliates Wen, the ghost grants an impulsive wish of hers - brutally. Wen often hears the whisper of a ghost in the slaughterhouse, a ghost who grants wishes to those who need them most. Sixteen-year-old Wen assists her father in his medical clinic, housed in a slaughterhouse staffed by the Noor, men hired as cheap factory labor. This love story for the ages, set in a reimagined industrial Asia, is a little dark, a bit breathless, and completely compelling.
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