Reading log: Meariki The Quest For Truth

Meariki the quest for truth is a book by Helen Pearse-Otene. Meariki the quest for truth is a book about ignorance, rivalry and an evil vs good type of book. This book is a very good Maori book to read as well.                                                                                                                       

We are introduced to Meariki, an unfortunate slave to the Kuwai Village Chief’s daughter, Hineamuru. Meariki is forced to follow Hineamuru and her warrior boyfriend Pehi to the river, where the ignorant young warrior insults the poor slave and then loses Hineamuru to the evil Tanekikiwa who intends to make Hineamuru his reluctant bride. Thus begins Matariki's adventurous journey to rescue Hineamuru from the clutches of the black magician. As a small and unadorned heroine, she meets wonderful characters along the way traveling with the transformed trouble-maker Pehi and ultimate discovering her own unique destiny.                                                                                                                                             

In this graphic novel, it has very interesting features already at the start first it's first in a Maori village which is interesting to see what all the Maori people are doing in the background as well as what the main characters are doing. Though when going more through the book the background is slowly put into this dark background all through out the whole book right from where the slave Meariki was introduced because having a slave now is something horrible and cruel to have. As the book proceeded and coming up to the part on where Meariki and Pehi finally make it to Tanekikiwa´s cave where he kept Hineamuru the background didn´t really feel like a scary place but still felt like an evil background with the dark cave.

As in this graphic novel, Meariki was introduced to the very start of the novel and was introduced as a slave to the Chief´s daughter, Hineamuru. When proceeding through the book Pehi is introduced with Meariki when Hineamuru was captured by Tanikikwa. Now in the book, Pehi and Meariki have gone through a lot and have grown very fond of each other and becoming friends. Meariki didn´t know though that she was getting lead to her destiny as reading through near the end of the book. As Pehi and Meariki are at the cave where Tanekikiwa is holding Hineamuru under his spell and as Hineamuru came out of nowhere and put her hands on Meariki´s head and that's when Meariki´s destiny was final and was taken to the sprite mind of the guardian to become the new sprite mind of the guardian.