SuitabookSibling loyalty and changing family
Mitra and Babak survive together after their father’s death and exile, while seeking their remaining family and coping with Babak’s declining health.
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Susan Fletcher - Author
Expect an inward-looking coming-of-age journey shaped by disguise, sibling loyalty and political danger. Mitra’s hopes of restored status meet hardship, pursuit and Babak’s failing health; the ending brings a changed understanding of home, though some events remain offstage.
Mitra and her little brother, Babak, are beggars in the city of Rhagae, scratching out a living as best as they can with what they can beg for -- or steal. But Mitra burns with hope and ambition, for she and Babak are not what they seem. They are of royal blood, but their father's ill-fated plot against the evil tyrant, King Phraates, has resulted in their father's death and their exile. Now disguised as a boy, Mitra has never given up believing they can rejoin what is left of their family and regain their rightful standing in the world. Then they discover that Babak has a strange gift: If he sleeps with an item belonging to someone, he can know that person's dreams. Mitra believes that they can use this gift to find passage back to the city of Palmyra and their remaining kinsmen. But soon Babak and his abilities come to the attention of a powerful Magus -- one who has read portents in the stars of the coming of a new king and the dawn of a new age. Soon Mitra and Babak find themselves on the road to Bethlehem...
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Sign in for personalised guidanceExpect an inward-looking coming-of-age journey shaped by disguise, sibling loyalty and political danger. Mitra’s hopes of restored status meet hardship, pursuit and Babak’s failing health; the ending brings a changed understanding of home, though some events remain offstage.
Mitra and Babak survive together after their father’s death and exile, while seeking their remaining family and coping with Babak’s declining health.
Mitra lives disguised as a boy while concealing her royal background, hoping to regain family connection and a former place in society.
Babak’s ability to know another person’s dreams attracts a powerful Magus, whose star readings concern a new king and a new age.
Be aware of bereavement, exile, poverty, begging, theft, concealment, pursuit and illness.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the book’s treatment of its main themes is not yet firm enough; some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
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