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Reviewed by Asher Syed for Readers' Favorite
In Rich Meyrick’s The Prisoner of Venice, Ernest, a tiny animal-being known as a Ses, who belongs to London’s Pride, disappears after receiving a forged message that sends him to Venice on a secret assignment. His friend Jaspa, the primary protagonist, leads a small group of Pride members to Italy, where their search points toward a pattern of Ses vanishings that has frightened the local community into silence. Unknown to them, Ernest is being held inside the Doge’s Palace by the Ses Scuola Grande, a secret organization whose leaders keep control over its members by separating them from people they care about. As Jaspa follows the clues through Venice, Ernest begins learning how the Scuola operates and looks for a way out before those holding him discover how much he knows.
Rich Meyrick’s The Prisoner of Venice is excellent fantasy mystery fiction, with the author building its central investigation around a miniature society hidden inside the human world. The author gives the cast strong individuality, and while we know Jaspa from previous books, wonderful attention is paid elsewhere too. Albertee, an Otterses whose Venetian storytelling brings local history naturally into conversations with the visiting Ses, is amazing, and Bisckits responds to the stories with real enthusiasm, giving their exchanges an easy chemistry. Venice is used superbly, since ordinary landmarks become enormous physical environments for characters under ten centimeters tall. At St. Mark’s Square, the crowds themselves create danger simply through scale. The author keeps the mystery moving as discoveries alter what the characters understand, with later clues connecting earlier details in satisfying ways. This is a five-star fifth book in the Jaspa's Journey series, and very highly recommended.
