Tempestuous Journey

In Emy Naso’s Tempestuous Journey, golden-haired beauty Breytalia travels to various lands before understanding herself.

Breytalia, of the Mhadi Federation, is given in marriage to her homosexual uncle. Bored, she runs off with her lover to Fehlatia. Enraged by her flight and consumed by vanity and arrogance, her father and her husband wage an ill-fated war that ravages both lands.

The Demetarta Council clandestinely and cleverly ends the conflict as the men search for a resolution to their impasse and return home. Breytalia merges with the Council; however, her ardor for another separates her from them.

Emy Naso perceptively reveals how egotism and gluttony lead to ruin. Breytalia is the innocent or the whore depending on the whims of her father and husband. Women have been “the personification of goodness when men wanted (them) and the harbinger of evil when they needed someone to blame”. Tempestuous Journey deftly relates the saga of Troy with a distinctive twist to the legend.

Tempestuous Journey adeptly exposes the fickleness and selfishness of conceited rulers who are drunk on their own power. High King Argenon does not want war, but is unable to stand up and admit his fault in marrying his daughter to his brother. Emy Naso’s Tempestuous Journey is a gripping, spine-tingling journey where corruption and greed lose the day and love reigns supreme.

Reviewed by: Dena