I chose to write about a sisterly bond in my novel White Shadows. It took me a while to find the perfect setting, the perfect combination of bad things to throw at my heroines, to see how they would handle it. Finally, the idea was ripe in mind. This novel presents an idea that even blood relations could be separated by something, and if they are stubborn enough, their relationship could die, just like a flower withering without being taken care of. We have all witnessed such events if not in our own lives, then in the lives of our friends. Family drifts apart, and suddenly, you realize you haven’t spoken to your sibling or your parents for 20 years. Those are the sad truths of life. Many of us don’t want it to be so, but unfortunately, it is.
However, I also wanted to show how little is necessary to rekindle that relationship, that passion, that love that never really died, it was simply hidden by layers of bitterness and aggression. These sisters learn a valuable lesson, and they eventually get their happily ever after together. This is also possible in real life. Even though these sisters are fairies, but the problems and hardships they face are the same hardships human face on a day to day basis. They can’t use their magic powers on each other. All they have is the human capacity for love and forgiveness, which dwells in us all.
The book is dedicated to my friend Tia who always claimed she was nice to me so I would watch her kids after she got married.
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