Steph W. reviewed on 10/29/2006 + 55 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 9

After starting the book, I thought it was going to be a superficial book, not going very in depth with the characters and a moderately predictable plot. However, I ended up being pleasantly surprised. The summary on the book jacket starts you at the begining of the story, on a world where old enemies have found an uneasy truce and meet each year for the Allfair, held at the foot of a rock that each side holds as sacred ground for their god. Katla, a northern girl on her first trip to the Allfair, climbs the rock, which angers the southerners who hold that females are not permitted on the sacred ground. (The southerners treatment of their women is reminicent of some Arab countries who's women do not have a voice, and are hiden behind veils.) The story continues with many pivotal events happening at the Allfair, which comes to a bloody conclusion. I was enjoying this so much, I requested the second in the series half way through.

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