The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped (Book 2) Review

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(More customer reviews)The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped is the second Fantasy novel in the Mavin subseries, following The Song of Mavin Manyshaped. In the previous volume, Mavin met Ganver and was assisted by the Essty. While Mavin was gone, Himaggery supervised the preparations for making a cure for the plague.
Then Mavin returned and the ritual was completed. Huld killed his father and then rushed Himaggery with knife in hand. But Mavin stepped between them and roared in the Demon's face.
In this novel, Mavin is a shapeshifter of the Danderbat family. She and her older sister Handbright were the only remaining maidens in the family. Mavin is searching for Handbright.
Beedie Beed is a young woman of the Bridger caste. She was born on the Nextdown bridge, but moved to Topbridge with Aunt Six after her parents and other Beeds died while cutting a mainroot. She has been climbing the mainroots since she was four years old.
In this story, Beedie is measuring a mainroot for an expansion of the Topbridge town. She encounters Byle Bander on her way back home. Then more Banders confront her and demand her measuring cord to compare with Byle's.
After returning home, Beedie talks to Rootweaver about the Banders and they decide to check on Byle's measurements of the opposing main root. Then Beedie goes to help Aunt Six move out of Bridger house again. Later, Rootweaver tells her that Byle has measured short.
The next day, Beedie goes alone to start the cut. Other Beeds are supposed to be with her, but they had something else to do. When she starts the cut, Beedie smells smoke.
The smoke reminds her of the burning mainroot that killed her parents. She frantically tries to part the root by herself before the fire reaches the cutpoint. She finishes with the hatchet and starts sawing through the mainroot.
Smoke from the root is slowly poisoning her, but Beedie continues to saw the root. Wiping her eyes, she sees a white bird flying toward her. She believes that it is the bird woman kept by the Birder caste and keeps sawing.
When the root finally breaks, Beedie is struck by the sideroots and flung against the mainroot. As she is dangling from her lines, the slams and smoke overcomes her. She looses consciousness.
When she awakes, she is lying on a sideroot. Mavin is offering her water from a nearby water-belly. As Beedie recovers from her ordeal, Mavin asks her questions.
Mavin goes to Topbridge with Beedie in the guise of a Harvester. Soon she visits the Birders and meets the bird woman. At last she has found Handbright.
This tale has Mavin explaining the evil wiles of some humans to Beedie and her family. She helps Beedie escape from Topbridge. The local Banders follows behind them and another group waits in ambush at Nextdown.
This story takes Mavin down to the bottom of the Chasm. The next installment -- The Search of Mavin Manyshaped -- continues her tale five years later. Read and enjoy!
-Arthur W. Jordin

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