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Companion of Eagles
by Regine Haensel
Published by Serimuse Books
Review by Michelle Shaw
$14.95聽 聽 ISBN 9780993903229

Companion of Eagles is the third book in The Leather Book Tales, a fantasy set in western North America.聽

The book opens in Aquila, City of Eagles, where 14-year-old Samel lives with his father. One day, his mother鈥檚 cousin Thea arrives. She is headed to the mountains, to her childhood home in the city of Sch枚nspitze. Samel is desperate to accompany Thea on her journey and experience a world outside his everyday life.聽

Companion of Eagles is filled with fantastical elements including two magical silver bracelets that are able to trigger and enhance the elements of fire, wind, water and air and allow Samel and his sister to see and communicate with each other, and a magical old book which changes its stories depending on who is reading it.聽聽

My favorite parts of the book were the shape shifting elements. Thea has twin toddler boys who have a habit of changing into goats. Unfortunately, they tend to change back into goats when they are agitated or overtired, which for toddlers of course is a fairly frequent occurrence.聽

I鈥檓 looking forward to reading the next book in the series. There were certain incidents in Companion of Eagles that seemed to hint at future importance, and I felt the book was slowly building to a crescendo which will presumably be realized in the fourth (and I think the last) book in the series.聽

Regine Haensel was born in Germany and came to Saskatchewan in 1955. She has written five books including two collections of short stories. Queen of Fire (2014), the first book in The Leather Book Tales series, was one of three finalists in the Young Adult Category of the 2015 High Plains Book Awards. She lives in Saskatoon.