Forget prophecy. Make your own destiny.
Sheltered from the outside world with no hope for escape, slave girl Reychel dreads her fifteenth birthday – when her master’s symbol is burned on the back of her bald scalp. Her best friend disappears the night before, leaving her to face the branding ceremony alone. She soon discovers nothing is as it seems when people desperate for freedom beg for Reychel’s help.
Can Reychel learn to believe in herself?
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Sexual Content - 1/5
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Violence - 2/5
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Language - 1/5
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Drugs and Alcohol - 0/5
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Summary
Overall Anathema is the first book in the Cloud Prophet trilogy. It has an interesting plot, however, the writing seems somewhat disjointed and rushed hard to follow at times. The characters aren't as fully developed as they need to be; I thought a character was one way, then she becomes someone very different. It's as if the author was in a rush to get to a certain place in her storytelling, and she couldn't wait for her characters to develop to that point, so she just made them be what they needed to be for that part of the story suddenly. The novel is in the fantasy genre: one group of people has enslaved another group of people, many of which have special giftedness that is expressed in various ways. The author has managed to include plot twists which kept me reading, and which surprised me in a good way. It wasn't predictable. In my
opinion, the novel was not well edited. A skilled editor would have pushed the author to develop her characters better and her plot more fully. I read the Kindle version which, in itself, had numerous composition errors which were distracting. Yet, as much work as I think the overall novel needs to be better, I am left wanting to read the
next installment of the Cloud Prophet trilogy. This novel seems to be directed as the young adult audience.
Violence Slavery, forced branding, backhanding, vigilantism