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Lorehaven helps Christian fans explore fantastical stories for Christ’s glory: fantasy, science fiction, and beyond. Articles, the library, reviews, podcasts, gifts, and the Lorehaven Guild community help fans discern and enjoy the best Christian-made fantastical stories, applying their meanings to the real world Jesus Christ calls us to serve. Subscribe free to get any updates you choose and to access the Lorehaven Guild.
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Author:
Bokerah Brumley
Ages:
middle grade
Genres:
fantasy
BookTags:
mermaids oceans steampunk
Publisher:
CleanReads
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“Bokerah Brumley paints a colorful urban-fantasy backdrop and peoples it with distinctive characters.”
—Lorehaven review, fall 2018

Imani Earns Her Cape

Imani’s mother has been kidnapped by a giant troll, and now Imani is lost in the Fae Realm with no way back home to Virginia.
Bokerah Brumley · fantasy for middle grade readers · March 2018

Twelve-year-old Imani Chausiku should be celebrating the most important day of her life by eating merfruit, casting flying spells, and laughing with her mother. There’s just one massive problem.

Her mother has been kidnapped by a giant troll, and now Imani is lost in the Fae Realm with no way back home to Virginia. Completing her rite-of-passage alone is inadvisable, but if Imani doesn’t want to lose the only family she’s ever had, she may have no choice.

Trans-portal train travel, underwater cities, submarines, sea dragons, and unexpected family all combine in Imani Earns Her Cape.

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Review of Imani Earns Her Cape

Bokerah Brumley paints a colorful urban-fantasy backdrop and peoples it with distinctive characters.
Lorehaven Review Team, fall 2018

When a merman falls for a fae woman, the outcome can prove all too human. Such is the experience of twelve-year-old Imani Chausiku, a geeky half-fae raised by her magical single mother in Washington, D. C. Fitting in has always been Imani’s struggle, but when she journeys to the homeland of her maternal tribe to complete an initiation ceremony, awkward revelations and unexpected threats force her to stand out even more than she did in Virginia. Meanwhile, the young half-mer ruler of the underwater city of Wanesh bucks tradition to search for his vanished mother—a figure who seems familiar. With Imani Earns Her Cape, Bokerah Brumley paints a colorful urban-fantasy backdrop and peoples it with distinctive characters. But interminable angst ends up swamping the action, and loose ends dangle past an abruptly cloying resolution.

Best for: Older children seeking a coming-of-age tale set in a parallel world of magic.

Discern: Mild peril, emotional drama, themes of parental separation, and references to “the universe” as a providential force.

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