She clearly loves her family and friends, and grows throughout the story, letting go of some of her childlike ignorancesĪnd emotional reactions in place of someone who is less broken and more self-realized.
Her thoughts and feeling suit her age of 17, but thankfully she isn’t as impetuous as female main characters in this genre often are portrayed. For example, Zafira hails from a cold and wintery region and her “omg” is “sweet snow below”. Her characters have mannerisms and colloquialisms indicative of their home caliphate. On to what I loved (this may take a while lol):įaizal’s attention-to-detail in her world-building is mind-blowing. I can’t wait for Book 2, We Free the Stars. Thankfully, I don’t have to wait two years to get it since I only just read it! That being said, the ending leaves you just sated enough to survive, but definitely not satisfied. Though it’s not a draw dropper, the reader is left without closure.
This book ends with a Potter-like cliffhanger and a two-year space between books in the duology (more on that later). But will she get the chance? (You’ll have to read to find out!) So let’s start with the one small thing that isn’t my favorite:
Until, one day, she is faced with the opportunity to journey to an island of monsters to free the magic – and save Arawiya.Įnter Nasir, the Prince of Death, and a host of other colorful characters she will face in her mission to retrieve the Jawarat and return home. Zafira, the Hunter, is one of the few who can enter and exit the forest to hunt, feeding the starving residents of her caliphate. We find the world suffering and desperately isolated by an encroaching dark forest, The Arz, which is virtually impassable. But for reasons unknown, the sisters battled the Lion of the Night almost a century earlier, leaving the world darkened of magic’s glow and their leadership. “The Six Sisters of Old” planned equal distribution of magic through minarets in each country, strong for varying reasons. Arawiya was once a world humming with magic. Like all books worth reading, this debut novel by Faizal draws the reader into a new-yet-ancient Arabian world, detailed in its lands, peoples, characteristics and faults. Because if you are late to this incredible story like me, you’re just in time to join the party before Part 2 is released in January!
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