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Reviewed by Divine Zape for Readers' Favorite
In Lotte Skale and the Wyvern Hatchery by Shanna P. Lowe, fourteen-year-old Lotte helps her father operate a hatchery and sanctuary for endangered wyverns, winged, serpentine creatures that are hunted by the tyrant, King Bouldermaul. The regime in Asoleenya is anti-magic, and this means Lotte and Orm are risking their lives. When Orm leaves to deliver a dangerous basilisk egg to Lotte’s mother in the North, Lotte is left to handle the hatchery alone. She captures a Firewraith soldier named Emerick Hammerthorne, who is secretly looking for the fabled Elixir of Life to save his mother's life. Lotte is forced to create an alliance with Emerick while they defend the hatchery from vicious attacks from Firewraiths. Their fight brings them into confrontation with creatures like the entelodonts and arachneas. But how long can they survive the attacks, and what happens when they realize that the king is a hypocrite who outlaws magic while his generals use it?
Shanna P. Lowe delighted me with the descriptive prose. There was something magical in the writing, and I was enticed by the neologisms and magical names the author gave to the creatures in the story. The prose is filled with enthralling imagery, sounds, and gestures, like the way the underwater race speaks, described with such clarity. The worldbuilding is textured, and it features different classes of people: the southern Holan’s jungles, the coastal cliffs, and the settlement of Twisp underwater. Lotte Skale and the Wyvern Hatchery presents a heroine who is stubborn, and a world I wanted to dream about after I put the book aside. The magical elements and the creation of a unique language are creative elements that make this fantasy a delight.
