He dubs her the “blue-eyed bandit”.Īs her mother was hanged for killing her drunkard father (he called her “a used-up foreigner’s whore who couldn’t give him a son”), Amani lives with her aunt and uncle and his innumerable offspring. She also meets a dark foreigner with “the uncanniest eyes I’d ever seen”.

Naturally, Amani is an ace shot, and during the course of the evening she proves her mettle. She has a bad habit of acquiring more hardcovers than is smart for someone who moves house quite so often.It’s the first of many tongue-in-cheek one-liners from a plucky and resourceful heroine who is easy to root for. She left France for Cambridge University to study History of Art at King’s College, and then to London where she became indentured to an auction house.

She instead attempted to read and write her way to new places and developed a weakness for fantasy and cross-dressing heroines. She grew up in a small town there, which might have compelled her to burst randomly into the opening song from Beauty and the Beast were it not for her total tone-deafness. Available for Pre-Order!Īlwyn Hamilton was born in Toronto and spent her childhood bouncing between Europe and Canada until her parents settled in France.

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. “You will cheer for Amani the whole way as she escapes the bonds of oppression and finds her own power, and you will mark your calendar for the sequel.”-Rae Carson, bestselling author of the Fire & Thorns trilogy What are some of the things you are most well known for or wanted for? Let me know in the comments below!

I am WANTED for having too many book boyfriends.

I am KNOWN for designing some book related graphics (see above) & for Live Love Read.

However, if you have gotten to know me as a person within the last year then you know I have several obsessions. Me on the other hand have been blogging for less than a year and not “known” for much in the blogging community. Amani is known for many things in The Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton.

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