Reviewed by Nancy Orozco
This book tak
es us to a time where there are thieves, barbarians, and bandits. In a land where there are only women and no men and women rule. Rain is a young woman born from a mother who does not like her. Rain’s mother was raped by 50 men and out of those 50, one was her father. Their lands are always threatened by men who either want the land or want the women. These women are trained to kill and to defend what is theirs. Since Rain is the daugther of the queen, she will be the next to take the throne. Little by little she starts to discover she doesn’t want it.
Her mother gets pregnant again. Will she have a boy or will she have a girl? If she has a boy, it will be killed because no men or child males are allowed. This is an exciting book that you can’t keep your eyes off of for an instant. If you like this book, you should also read Blood Red Horse.
Find The Foretelling in the Fiction section under FIC Hof.