A rebellious heroine faces a colonial world coming unstitched in Jae Waller's stunning debut fantasy Seventeen-year-old Kateiko doesn't want to be Rin anymore -- not if it means sacrificing lives to protect the dead. Her only way out is to join another tribe, a one-way trek through the coastal rainforest. Killing a colonial soldier in the woods isn't part of the plan. Neither is spending the winter with Tiernan, an immigrant who keeps a sword with his carpentry tools. His log cabin leaks and his stories about other worlds raise more questions than they answer. Then the air spirit Suriel, long thought dormant, resurrects a war. For Kateiko, protecting other tribes in her confederacy is atonement. For Tiernan, war is a return to the military life he's desperate to forget. Leaving Tiernan means losing the one man Kateiko trusts. Staying with him means abandoning colonists to a death sentence. In a region tainted by prejudice and on the brink of civil war, she has to decide what's worth dying -- or killing -- for.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: 04/03/2018
ISBN: 9781770413542
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.50w x 1.40d
Review Citations: School Library Journal 02/01/2018 pg. 109
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2018 pg. 163
Voice of Youth Advocates 04/01/2018 - Reviewed - More Editing Needed