Intisar Khanani's Sunbolt Chronicles is an ongoing fantasy serial which currently consists of Sunbolt (novella) and Memories of Ash (novel.) It stars Hitomi, a Plucky Street Urchin with magical talents; she begins as a bit player in a revolution and subsequently bounces through a rapid succession of plot elements including but not limited to ( Read more... )

I was a bit dubious about Intisar Khanani's Thorn at first, mostly due to the Standard YA First Person Present Tense, and also the amount of time it took the book to introduce another prominent female character besides the shy, abused princess heroine who was not Awful ( Read more... )