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This little book, with its unassuming solid purple cover is my first bound galley. I use it as a personal justification for trawling other people's friends lists, because that's how I ran across someone giving away their copy (thanks tinachristopher!). The purpleness, the reading it five months before publicationness, all this makes me happy.
What makes me less happy is that this was another one of those reviews I had finished and all ready to post when my computer crashed.
Stop it, Fish, it's not the book's fault.
Nya's little sister is a healer. She can take pain and illness out of a person and dump it into pynvium, a metal that can't hurt like people. Her sister's got a cushy position as a League apprentice, but in the aftermath of the Baseeri conquest, Nya's getting by on odd jobs and petty theft, because while she can take pain out of people, she can't put it anywhere but another person, and they can hurt.
But when League apprentices start disappearing, Nya’s strange, useless talents become the key to getting her sister, and maybe even her nation, back.
( This is where usually I have a snappy quote, but it explicitly states no quoting. )
The Pain Merchants, titled The Shifter in the US (Which is really sad, because The Pain Merchants is a way cooler title), book one of The Healing Wars, comes out October 6, but I got to read it all the way back in May. Suckers. Oh well, it means I have longer to wait for the sequels.
Janice Hardy can be found at her blog, The Healing Wars.
What makes me less happy is that this was another one of those reviews I had finished and all ready to post when my computer crashed.
Stop it, Fish, it's not the book's fault.
Nya's little sister is a healer. She can take pain and illness out of a person and dump it into pynvium, a metal that can't hurt like people. Her sister's got a cushy position as a League apprentice, but in the aftermath of the Baseeri conquest, Nya's getting by on odd jobs and petty theft, because while she can take pain out of people, she can't put it anywhere but another person, and they can hurt.
But when League apprentices start disappearing, Nya’s strange, useless talents become the key to getting her sister, and maybe even her nation, back.
( This is where usually I have a snappy quote, but it explicitly states no quoting. )
The Pain Merchants, titled The Shifter in the US (Which is really sad, because The Pain Merchants is a way cooler title), book one of The Healing Wars, comes out October 6, but I got to read it all the way back in May. Suckers. Oh well, it means I have longer to wait for the sequels.
Janice Hardy can be found at her blog, The Healing Wars.
