Then she meets Jin, a rakish foreigner, in a shooting contest, and sees him as the perfect escape route. She’s a gifted gunslinger with perfect aim, but she can’t shoot her way out of Dustwalk, the back-country town where she’s destined to wind up wed or dead. For humans, it’s an unforgiving place, especially if you’re poor, orphaned, or female. Amani Al’Hiza is all three. Mortals rule the desert nation of Miraji, but mythical beasts still roam the wild and remote areas, and rumor has it that somewhere, djinn still perform their magic. MediaType eBook shortDescription The New York Times bestselling novel by the Goodreads Choice Awards Best Debut Author of 2016, published in 15 countries! IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languages But I know a lot of customers who would lap it up so I am happy to provide for them.OverDrive Product Record readingOrder 1 images So, bearing in mind that it was a preview and doesn't tell me the whole story, there was just too much that I didn't like for me to consider reading for myself. I don't know if the author thought they were being clever - to me, it just came across as ordinary. The again, I wasn't exactly up to no bad either.
the only folks who beloned in Deadshot after dark were the ones who were up to no good.
It is a mish-mash of trying to write a book seriously, with backstory and history etc.and then the writing itself is just hard to stomach. The biggest issue I had with this preview (and the reason I wouldn't buy it for myself) is the writing style. The blurb sounded brilliant, the cover is fantastic. But though she’s spent years dreaming of leaving Dustwalk, she never imagined she’d gallop away on mythical horse-or that it would take a foreign fugitive to show her the heart of the desert she thought she knew.
She’s a gifted gunslinger with perfect aim, but she can’t shoot her way out of Dustwalk, the back-country town where she’s destined to wind up wed or dead. Then she meets Jin, a rakish foreigner, in a shooting contest, and sees him as the perfect escape route. For humans, it’s an unforgiving place, especially if you’re poor, orphaned, or female.Īmani Al’Hiza is all three. (I received a free copy of this book from Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.)
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