Cobe: Kampot's Curse by Greg AlldredgeMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Protagonist Cobe is a feckless hero in this fantasy, yet it is not entirely his fault. Actually, he is quite intelligent and resourceful, but a hard life and difficult circumstances have rendered him feckless. Living in a small village, motherless, surrounded by the products of interbreeding, he is one of the few intelligent individuals there and so is constantly despised and denigrated. So is Ariana, an orphaned metalworker and jewelry maker who inherited her mother's shop. Considered different from the villagers (she does seem to possess obsessive compulsive disorder), she is left distraught and homeless when inexplicably the stone building containing her shop and workplace burns. Then Cobe returns to the village after an attempt on his life to discover the village gone. Will these two lost youths and a wild dog even find survival, let alone manage to thrive and build new lives?
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