While at first I was completely hooked, I quickly grew disinterested until every once in a while something exciting happened again that would temporarily peak my interest. Unfortunately the excitement and intrigue had a lot of ups and downs. I was immediately drawn in and wondering why it had taken me so long to pick up this book. The opening of this book was epic and so perfect. It was rather jolting and jumbled, only keeping my attention in bursts, and it also failed to plant a seed of connection between the central characters and myself. What lost me, I think, was the pacing of the plot. This fictional world managed to feel both familiar and new, which makes you almost wonder if it could be real somewhere (I love when books do that). The world crafted for this story is a bit like a classic Western set in the Middle East with a whole layer of ancient powers and magic waiting beneath the desert sands.
Not to mention he wears a smile full of secrets. He was funny, surprising, clever, and fierce. But I’m clearly too trusting (or I’ve read too many books) because I probably would have heard Jin out sooner, which might have saved a lot of people some trouble with soldiers, but it also wouldn’t have been as interesting. I did like Amani for the most part, she reminded me of Saba from Blood Red Road a bit with her fierceness and determination to survive. I consider this book a DNF because although I did actually make it to the end it was largely through skimming which in my opinion doesn’t really count. Rebel of the Sands was a good book it just didn’t win my heart. YA Fantasy books are generally my weakness but not all of them can be knockouts. Rebel of the Sands reveals what happens when a dream deferred explodes-in the fires of rebellion, of romantic passion, and the all-consuming inferno of a girl finally, at long last, embracing her power.” 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. 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.Īmani 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. Rebel of the Sands (Rebel of the Sands #1) by Alwyn Hamilton (2016)
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