Strong Hearts Are Mandatory: Heart of Glass by Teelia PelletierMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This book is the fantastic effort of an eighteen year old author. The story involves magic, a quest to save the characters' world, and fantastic world-building. The characters are full, rich, and ones you can relate to, with the narrator evolving throughout the story. A rich and wonderful read, especially if you like cats. Recommended for advanced middle graders, I would put the book in the young adult section of a library for the violence. The author started out as a Warrior Cat fan, but this is a much richer fantasy novel in a different world, and involves many more sentient, intelligence species, as well as a rich mythology in the Prologue. It is the first of six volumes, but you should look for the upcoming web comics on the author's DeviantArt page, too: http://teelia.deviantart.com/. Here is the YouTube channel to watch her animations of Mandatory and bits of the web comic that is like a spinoff, or separate arc of the Mandatory series. It's so involved!! https://www.youtube.com/ladyteelia
A must read!!
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