Tinna's Promise

Miranda Mayer
iUniverse (2007)
ISBN 0595431461
Reviewed by Cherie Fisher for Reader Views (5/07)

My attention was captured from the beginning to the end of this book!  The author, Miranda Mayer, knows how to spin a great tale.  “Tinna’s Promise” is based on a girl’s promise to a little boy that she is determined to keep even though the world is falling apart around her. 

The main character, Aitinna, is beautiful, powerful and smart.  Her life has not been an easy one as she was never completely accepted by her own people because she is half-gypsy.  When she was among them, she became a warrior – an assassin for them.  She wants a different life now than the old one she was living. 

As Tinna, stops in a small village of the Horse God people, she has no idea that her life will forever change.  The village Wiseman, Taneth, immediately captures her attention and she finds herself drawn to him as she gets to know him.  She even begins to consider giving up her nomadic existence for a life with him among these good people.  When something happens to an abused little boy in the village, Tinna makes him a promise that she intends to keep. 

When Tinna, accompanied by Rhoa, a girl from the village, leaves the village to keep her promise, her world is turned upside down by war.  The war includes dragons, dragon people, Nimrath’s (tree people) and so many more things.  When the individuals who are destroying the world come to her and tell her what is really happening and ask for her help, she knows that she cannot turn them down.  But before she does that she makes them promise not to hurt the Horse People.  She is also determined to survive this to fulfill a promise to a little boy and get back to the man she loves. 

I completely enjoyed reading “Tinna’s Promise.”  The characters were full of flaws and real.  The landscape was full of very interesting creatures and I found myself really wanting Tinna to make it back to Taneth and the Horse People.  There are a few sexual episodes in the book so the book would be good for older teens and adults. 

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