I got this on CD from the library after coming across it on amazon.com; I'm a sucker for a good YA fantasy, and this ended up being a really wonderful example. She has created a vaguely middle-eastern medieval society in which to set her characters, and it felt very real. Beautiful world-building, beautiful characterizations. I very much appreciated the intensity and realism of the dangers that the two young female protagonists face (the princess Saren and her maid Dashti). The story is told in the form of Dashti's journal as she and Saren endure four years imprisoned in a tower, and then great trials on their way to the eventual happy ending.
Nice job, Shannon!
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