Mahimata
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4.6 • 11 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
A young female assassin must confront the man who slaughtered her family, risk her heart, and come to terms with her identity as a warrior and as a woman in this thrilling fantasy from the author of Markswoman.
Kyra has returned to the caves of Kali, but her homecoming is bittersweet. She no longer knows what her place is. Her beloved teacher is dead and her best friend Nineth is missing. And gone, too, is Rustan, the Marksman who helped her train for the duel with Tamsyn--and became far more than a teacher and friend.
Shaken by his feelings for Kyra and the truth about his parentage, Rustan has set off on a quest for answers. His odyssey leads him to the descendants of an ancient sect tied to the alien Ones--and the realization that the answers he seeks come with a price.
Yet fate has plans to bring Kyra and Rustan together again. Kai Tau, the man who slaughtered Kyra’s family, wages war on the Orders of Asiana. Hungering for justice, Kyra readies herself for battle, aided by her new companions: the wyr-wolves, who are so much more than what they seem. And determined to keep the woman he loves safe, Rustan joins the fight to ride by her side.
But will this final confrontation ultimately cost them their love . . . and their lives?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Both making love and making war bring problems in Mehrotra's emotional roller coaster of a sequel to 2018's science fantasy Markswoman. Eight hundred and fifty years after a Great War in an altered Asia, peace is maintained by religious orders of women armed with psychic daggers. Threatening them is the renegade Kai Tau, who equips his loyalists with corrupted telepathic rifles ("kalashiks"). Kyra Veer, only survivor of a Tau massacre and now head of the Order of Kali, builds an unorthodox alliance with the wild wyr-wolves as well as with the solely male Order and especially its charming weapons trainer, Rustan. Still guilt-stricken from taking an innocent life, Rustan heads out on pilgrimage to a legendary monastery, where monks guard the secrets of the aliens who brought mind-reading metal and teleportation hubs to Asiana. Together and apart, Kyra and Rustan unite the quarreling powers of their world to stop Kai Tau. Mehrotra spends some time developing the setting, but her focus is on the romantic issues of her two fate-driven protagonists. Readers who enjoyed the first Asiana volume will be rewarded by this amorous wallow amid the battles and mountain treks.
Customer Reviews
Same Mistake
Since I really enjoyed the first book in this series, I really hate that I had to give this book 2 stars. I feel the writer made the same mistake most female authors make, which is focusing too much on the sentimental stuff, which isn’t good when dealing with a predominantly male audience, who dislike reading about the characters professing their love for each other over and over again, that’s what the romance genre is for.