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Between these two main characters we get to explore the life of the temple pledges as sulis tries to elicit change from within the temple that cast out her own mother and with kadar the underground movement to free the forsaken from slavery

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They are not so much separated by distance but by the cultural restrictions that surround temple pledges

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Sulis knows that the temple offers both good and evil truth and lies and adulation and death because her mother died there but she is overwhelmed by the forces she finds at work

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Thankfully this book was not another depressing post apocalyptic story

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You would not know this was ms

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It will be difficult to wait until july to find out what happens next

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Both familiar and strange the author synthesizes a number of different cultures but its impossible to name just one place or time as her source and that lends mystery and exoticism to the narrative

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Like any good allegory todays issues are on display but in a clever disguise we get a heroine whose aspirations are challenged by her sex and her desert origins as well as her mothers mysterious yet similar past