Red is the blood of the elite, of magic, of control.īlue is the blood of the poor, of workers, of the resistanceĬlear is the blood of the slaves, of the crushed, of the invisible. In the first book of a visionary fantasy trilogy with its roots in the mythology of Africa and Arabia, three women band together against a cruel empire that divides people by blood. Three fascinating, driven, and magnetic women are the lynchpins for this potential changing what the Empire is, even if they aren’t aware of their connection initially. But a rebellion might be on the horizon if the populace can survive the deadly tidewinds, which blows a mixture of salty air and blue sand through at a deadly force regularly. The clear blooded, or “Ghostings” are at the bottom, their tongues cut out and hands cut off at a young age, with the blue-blooded as the people in the middle/working class. The Red Bloods can perform magic, referred to by the populace as “bloodwerk” and since they are the sole practitioners of these powers, they are the ruling class. Set on a landmass with society by the color of the people’s blood – red, blue, and clear. The novel/world is inspired by Ghanaian folklore and Arabian myth and is the first installment of The Ending Fire. Saara El-Arifi’s The Final Strife fulfills that promise in gloriously. Epic Fantasy is a genre of imagination, a genre of metaphor, a genre that acts a doorway to new worlds that may have a flavor of the familiar.
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