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The Well of Prayers

by Anne Boles Levy
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The follow-up to The Temple of Doubt, by the author who Jonathan Maberry called “a powerful new voice in teen fantasy fiction. . . . Expect great things!"
Hadara, now sixteen years old, is still recovering from the night she assisted the Azwans, mighty magi, in destroying a demon that fell from the stars. She has a new job as an apprentice healer and wants to put her past—and her doubts—behind her.
On the planet Kuldor and beyond, it is deemed a sin to doubt the god Nihil's magic, and heresy to fail to worship him correctly. The Azwans, still on Hadara's island home, have begun punishing disbelievers with a vengeance.
Hadara can't shake her own skepticism, though, especially when she suspects that the demon they destroyed isn't entirely gone. What if bits and pieces are, in fact, floating around inside her and maybe taking root? Since she stood at the altar that fateful night, she's developed the ability to understand foreign tongues, among other odd talents she never had before. Had she perhaps swallowed some part of the dying demon? She suspects no one can answer that question for her, but she doesn't trust anyone enough to ask it.
But then a temple guard who she once thought was dead comes back into her life and points her toward new truths and a new sense of purpose: somewhere in the murky jungles surrounding her city, another people beckon her and demand she fulfill the destiny foretold by the falling star.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Temple of Doubt

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    August 9, 2016

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      • ISBN: 9781634506250
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      • ISBN: 9781634506250
      • File size: 998 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      June 15, 2016
      The sequel to The Temple of Doubt (2015) further explores the conflict among the god Nihil, the magic-wielding Azwans, and narrator Hadara.Sixteen-year-old pale, golden-eyed Hadara of Port Sapphire in the world of Kuldor is wondering if she is possessed. Ever since she thwarted the Azwans' attempt to sacrifice her, she has been able to understand the languages of the lizardlike Gek and the Feroxi, pale-skinned, blue-eyed giants. The Feroxi have been sent to Port Sapphire to put the populace back on track in the pious worship of the god Nihil, whose creed has to do with doubting certainties and being certain of doubts. It's a fuzzy premise that doesn't get any clearer because plot and character consistency is a deep and ongoing problem. The amplification of the fledgling romance between Hadara and tawny-skinned, brown-eyed Valeo--a half-human, half-Feroxi guard--is fraught with so many emotional reversals that readers will be forgiven for thinking that they are manufactured solely to conveniently fit themselves into the plot point of the moment. Hadara's overabundant interior monologues do not add any clarity, instead coming across as contradictory and obtuse. Worldbuilding is trivialized by the characters' ostentatious habit of taking Nihil's name in vain, a la "Nihil's nuts," "Nihil's scrawny buttocks," "Nihil's knuckles," etc. A jumble of inconsistent plot, by-the-numbers romance, artless characters, and muddled theme. (Fantasy. 14-16)

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