![]() ![]() This hybrid of various world building elements felt very fresh. There’s djinni and ghouls and traversing the desert by horse, but there’s also modern technology like gun factories and trains. The world feels both modern and historic. The story is this awesome middle eastern, wild west, Aladdin, mystic conglomeration with magic and mythical horses and sand and a sultan and a secret world of magical and powerful beings. Simply put, I loved everything about Rebel of the Sands, from the beautiful cover to the amazingly fitting title to the words inside. And she'd never have predicted she'd fall in love with him.or that he'd help her unlock the powerful truth of who she really is. But in all her years spent dreaming of leaving home, she never imagined she'd gallop away on a mythical horse, fleeing the murderous Sultan's army, with a fugitive who's wanted for treason. When she meets Jin, a mysterious and devastatingly handsome foreigner, in a shooting contest, she figures he’s the perfect escape route. But there's nothing mystical or magical about Dustwalk, the dead-end town that Amani can't wait to escape from.ĭestined to wind up "wed or dead," Amani’s counting on her sharpshooting skills to get her out of Dustwalk. Mortals rule the desert nation of Miraji, but mystical beasts still roam the wild and barren wastes, and rumor has it that somewhere, djinni still practice their magic. ![]() She’s more gunpowder than girl-and the fate of the desert lies in her hands. Published by Viking Children's Books on March 8, 2016 ![]()
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![]() ![]() Parker has invented a whole new world in which to set this novel drafted a rich, vibrant and violent history but beyond the setting there is little else to distinguish this as a fantasy novel. I note this because in Sharps the elements of the fantastic are completely non-existent. Truth of the matter is (at least in my view) is that beauty of fantasy is that it can be anything we want it to be. The definition of fantasy is something that can be argued about nearly without end. Of course all is not quite as it seems and intrigue and betrayal dog the steps of our often hapless fencers across every inch of their journey. ![]() ![]() As diplomatic talks are begun a team of Scherian fencers are selected and sent (not all willingly) on a fencing tour of Permia pitting themselves against the best that the other nation has to offer. As the novel begins there is an uneasy peace between the nations of Scheria and Permia two nations that have been at war for nearly 40 years. ![]() With all the praise for Parker’s previous work buzzing in the background I decided to the give the author’s recent stand alone novel, Sharps, a shot. Parker, her/his (the author’s name is a pseudonym) Engineer Trilogy (amongst two other earlier series) has been well regarded amongst critics. ![]() ![]() ![]() Guha sent across his final draft to Straus in 2006, and the book was published in 2007. The private papers of Indian independence activist and politician C Rajagopalachari and P N Haksar, Indira Gandhi's principal secretary 19, were especially useful to Guha's research. In writing the book, Guha consulted the private papers of several important Indian personalities, as well as newspaper records, housed at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. ![]() Guha signed a contract in March 1998, with a delivery date for the book specified for March 2002. ![]() He suggested that since Indian historians typically stopped their narratives with Indian independence in 1947, a scholarly analysis of modern Indian history post-independence would be of interest. Straus had read an article by Guha in the Oxford journal Past and Present. ![]() In November 1997, Peter Straus, then head of Picador, met Ramachandra Guha and suggested that he write a history of independent India. A revised and expanded edition was published in 2017. The book covers the history of the India after it gained independence from the British in 1947. First published by HarperCollins in August 2007. India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy is a non-fiction book by Indian historian Ramachandra Guha. 898 pp (First Edition), 919 pp (Revised and Updated Edition) ![]() |