② Read my lovely friend Shelly's review ← that's the better alternative, if you ask me. ① Read the above-mentioned crappy review anyway ← you're so brave, I'm so proud of you right now. Which means you are left with two choices here: Besides, my first review was crappy enough, believe me when I tell you you don't want me to write another one. Things to do, places to go, people I have to bully and whose brains I need to eat.

➻ I first reviewed this Piece of Awesomeness just 4 months ago, so you're really naïve if you think I'm going to review it again.

Damn, I must have been really drunk and high back then. And because the plot isn't kind of messy and the writing isn't all over the place like I wrote in my first review. And because Sanders is much cooler than I remembered. And because I'm in love with the Honor Guard kids. And because Cayan is not entirely unpleasant. Because Shanti is even more awesome than I remembered her to be. Or because I was drunk the first time I read this. ➻ Why the higher rating, you ask? Because I'm an idiot, that's why. But to trade her to Xandre, the warlord desperate to add her to his war machine, would be to give up their entire way of life. If they band with her, they will face certain death. But when the war spreads its arms and lands on her borrowed doorstep, Shanti has no choice but to reveal her secrets, plunging her saviors into danger. Oblivious to the weapon they now have in their possession, they are content to harbor the mysterious woman until she is well enough to continue her journey.

It seems like any other day when Sanders and his band of misfit boys find a foreign woman clinging to life in the wastelands. The problem is, she doesn't believe in her own divinity, and when she flounders, she nearly fails in the duty hanging so heavy on her shoulders. Carrying rare abilities and an uncanny fighting aptitude, Shanti is the only hope of salvation for her people. Since she helped her people defeat a raiding party by using a special power, she's been a hunted woman. Shanti has grown up under the constant threat of war. It is said that when war threatens the world, one individual will be selected by prophecy to lead the Shadow Warriors out of the Land of Mist and reclaim the freedom which has been stolen.

Chosen by K.F. Breene