![]() ![]() She is given one wish in reward for answering one of the story teller’s riddles and she wishes that they would find a way into Ziran, which is granted in the form of a stampede knocking a whole in one of the walls. In the panic of trying to recover their papers, their little sister slips away to one of the mysteriously powerful storytellers. As Eshran they are considered to be of a lower class than their neighbouring countries.īut their papers falsely identifying them as from one of the other countries are stolen when Malik takes sympathy on a small child who is knocked down. They are escaping the war torn Eshran mountains, which have been embroiled in civil wars under the Zirani empire. The story opens as Malik and his sisters try to gain entry to Ziran, the capital city but they have to hide their true heritage in order to get in. I’m trying not to let my reading habits fall into (or continue to be, I should say) a narrow worldview so I went through this list, looked at the reviews and book summaries and bought the ones that looked like they were in my wheelhouse. I purchased this book, alongside a number of others, which were on a list of diverse fantasy fiction books, as this is a type of fiction that does have a habit of being set in one place and written from a particular point of view (white, middle class). ![]() A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne.A.Brown was my 15th book of the year and another one I’d been really looking forward to starting. ![]()
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