Fires of the Faithful
by:
Naomi Kritzer (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299021907 (1299021905)
Publish date: January 1st 2009
Publisher: Bantam
Edition language: English
Series: Eliana's Song (#1)
When I started off these two books, what got me into giving them a try was the fact they were taking place in an alternate universe version of Italy, and the story centered around a conflict between two different religious cults. After going through them, I can say that I'm disappointed because of h...
A somewhat conventional heroic adventure but competently written & has a unique, mostly well thought-out world-building. There's a religious conflict in which the quasi-Christianity is oppressed one, which imho is a bit uncommon for quasi-medieval-European settings. The protagonist/narrator is also ...