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    Traitor to the Throne
    Traitor to the Throne
    Traitor to the Throne
    Audiobook15 hours

    Traitor to the Throne

    Written by Alwyn Hamilton

    Narrated by Soneela Nankani

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    About this audiobook

    A sizzling, unputdownable sequel to Rebel of the Sands that will make you question everything you thought you knew about the land of Miraji! The gunslinger Amani al'Hiza never wanted to be a hero or a revolutionary, but now she's become a key member of the rapidly growing rebellion against the Sultan of Miraji. After Amani is captured by the Sultan's army and imprisoned in his palace, she realizes she's there not to be questioned as a rebel but used as a Demdji. As Amani tries to spy on the enemy and plots her escape, Jin and the rebels are brewing a rescue plan. But the longer Amani stays in the palace, the more she questions if the Sultan is the tyrant she's believed or just a ruler fighting foreigners for his country. As the rebellion swiftly spirals into war, Amani wonders whether she's on the right side.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMar 7, 2017
    ISBN9781501952630
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    • 5/5
      This book follows REBEL OF THE SANDS and ramps up the excitement to an even higher pitch than the first book. Amani is a Demdji - half immortal djinni - and a revolutionary. After leaving her dead end town she took up with a couple of rebel princes who were trying to overthrow their tyrannical father.Demadji have powers as a result of their djinni fathers. Amani can control the desert sands. She is also an exceptional marksman and goes by the name of the Blue-Eyed Bandit. When she is kidnapped by her aunt and sold to the Sultan, she finds herself even deeper in the plots and politics of the kingdom. Confined to the harem and cut off from her magic, Amani needs to find another way to survive and escape. But as she gets to know the Sultan, she begins to wonder if she is on the correct side of this revolution.This story has wonderful characters and is set in an intriguing magical world. There is romance, friendship, and betrayals aplenty in this exciting story. I liked the chapters that were written like stories that told of these characters as long-ago heroes while the other chapters had the characters in all their humanity and faults actually doing what the story chapters romanticized and sanitized.Amani is a wonderful character. She is loyal, courageous and more than a little reckless. I liked her romance with Jin which went through its ups and downs in this book since they kept losing each other. I can't wait for HERO AT THE FALL to find out how everything works out for Amani and her friends.
    • 3/5
      It took a few chapters to remember the characters and past events since it had been a while since I read book 1, but once I was caught up I enjoyed the story and the interactions between the characters. Did not see the ending turning out like that.
    • 4/5
      I read this for the Supernatural square for Halloween Bingo

      Legends were never what you expected when you saw them up close. I was no exception.

      Second in the Rebel of the Sands trilogy, you definitely want to have read the first in the series before you dive into this one. While the first drops you into this world filled with supernatural beings, our heroine Amani is a demdji, daughter of a human woman and male djinn, and country at war. This first was a lot of action and I felt a little lost as the world building and explanations felt a little forgotten. This second one still had action in it but it slows down a bit with a focus on the characters and we get to know the other side, the father of the Rebel Prince, the Sultan.

      ‘The world is a lot more complicated than it seems when you are seventeen, Amani.’

      Amani is captured and spends the majority of the book as a prisoner in the Sultan's harem. The conversations she has with the Sultan were some of my favorite parts of this books, I love when the villains are given more depth, not just evil caricatures. I thought it was very interesting how the author had Amani having an internally battle about what she was fighting for; analytical conflict makes things more compelling.

      I’d move the whole world to make up for what I’d done to Tamid. But I wouldn’t ever give it up for him. Not for anyone. The difference was, Jin had never asked me to. He’d taken my hand to show it to me instead.

      If you're looking for a lot of Jin and Amani, you're going to be a bit disappointed, they spend the majority of the book apart. Jin kind of gets the shaft in this book and while I thought all the other characters had great insights and depth explored, he was left out in the cold. When Amani is captured and he “disappears” I was disappointed in how vague and forced his absence seemed to be to keep Amani in the harem, his whereabouts and reasons are given like a sentence to explain it away and didn't make a lot of sense. However, when they are on the page together, they spark enticingly.

      He stood as tall as one of the huge pillars down here in this ancient palace vault. Only he wasn’t just holding up a palace. He was holding up the world. One of God’s First Beings who had made the First Mortal. Who had made all of mankind. Who’d made me.

      There was a lot of tales, myth, and history weaved into this, at times I thought it helped with the world building and others it seemed to make things unnecessarily clogged with extra characters and more supernatural ethos that was hard to keep track of. It does set-up the third book nicely though with a new challenge for our Rebel crew and potential for a huge battle.

      ‘The trouble with belief is that it’s not the same as truth.’

      Even though it changed the action pace of the first to a more slowed down get to know the characters pace, I really enjoyed this second addition to the trilogy. There is a huge cast of characters and magical world to keep straight and track of but I believe this is worth the effort. I can't wait to read the third where we, hopefully, get more Jin and Amani, and the conclusion to the Rebel Prince's battle for a country.

      On that day, a hundred thousand men and women would come to watch and each would tell the story of what they saw there.
    • 4/5
      For some reason, I really got into this book a lot more than its predecessor. Maybe Amani is a little more mature as a character in this one or maybe I'm more in need of being wrapped up in fantasy and rebellion, but I liked this book in a way that surprised me. I liked the tension present throughout much of the novel, with Amani trapped in the harem and the tidbits revealed, like the identity of Amani's father. The ending was both sad and intriguing, making me want to dive right into the sequel (if only it wasn't buried in my to-read pile!).
    • 5/5
      It's a rare thing for a sequel to be better than the first book. But that was the case here. In the beginning, I felt a little confused because I had assumed that the novel would begin where it left off; instead, it started off a year afterwards. This meant that the character interactions were a little different. However, the author brought the readers up to pace quickly and soon, I was immersed in the story. I loved the addition of different djinn stories interspersed within the novel, all of which were relevant to specific characters; it gave a really nice backstory. I loved having Amani be the star of the show, and the author did a great job showing her weaknesses and the way she overcomes them. The love story between Amani and Jin still remained in this novel, and the intensity of it caught me off guard; since this novel took place a year after the first one, I felt like I missed out on the growth in their relationship, and so their love story fell short for me. It is pretty much the only negative I had for this whole story. I loved the villains, I loved the schemes, I loved all of the twists and turns. I loved every character that was introduced, and I loved the intensity of the world that the author created; if anything, it was even more in-depth and well-developed than before! I am so excited for the next book in the series! I read a lot of fantasy teen fiction novels, but this one is definitely unique and has gotten so much better as the story has progressed. I strongly urge everyone to give this series a go, because it is definitely worth the effort!

      I received this novel as an advanced copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
    • 4/5
      A stellar follow up to Rebel of the Sands, not quite better but damn close. Traitor to the Throne picks up right where Rebel of the Sands left off and it's a nonstop action ride the whole way through. Amani never catches a break! When she finds herself captured and taken to the Sultan's palace she is able to spy from the inside. What she learns shakes her to her very core and she's powerless to do anything about it. Her powers have suppressed by the sultan so she must find others ways to get information back to the rebel cause and help some innocents escape from the palace. Lots of twists and turns, and romance, and adventure, and all around badassery. I can't wait to see how the series is wrapped up when the third book comes out later this year. Traitor to the Throne ended crazy and I must know how it all plays out!!
    • 3/5
      Traitor to the Throne gets off to an unsteady start, as it tries to fill in what has happened since Rebel of the Sands and introduces totally unnecessary tension between Amani and her boyfriend - yawn - but the story quickly finds its feet as Amani loses her freedom. When Amani is first captured and delivered to the Sultan, she worries that the Sultan will discover her connection to the rebellion and force her to betray her friends. And then, as she develops a different perspective on the country’s political situation, she begins to have doubts about the rebellion and their potential to change things for the better...Traitor to the Throne is fast-paced, involves some unexpected twists and I enjoyed it slightly more than the first book.I was in the Sultan’s palace. We’d spent long hours trying to figure out ways to get more spies into the Sultan’s palace. Months easing people from our side in through the kitchens. And I’d just been carried unconscious over the threshold like it was nothing. And now I needed to get out. I might’ve laughed at the irony if I didn’t think it’d hurt so much.
    • 4/5
      I forgot to review Traitor to the Throne promptly after finishing it, which means my thoughts are now pretty scattered. However, I can say with certainty that I enjoyed it immensely. New (and some unexpected) characters, a limited but complex new setting, and that brutal betrayal towards the end! *shudders* My primary complaint is really just that I missed gunslinging desert rebel Amani. BUT, her vulnerabilities in this story were central to her character development and my hopes are high for a return to the Arabian western vibe in the final installment.
    • 5/5
      This is the second book in the Rebel of the Sands trilogy. I absolutely loved it and really enjoyed some of the interesting turns the story took. The story was very engaging and hard to put down. At first I was a bit worried that this was going to be your typical “female teen hero gets lost in a number of rebellion battles” kind of story. I was worried we were going to chase Amani around from one battle to the next. I was pleasantly please when that is not what happened. The beginning of the story was a bit awkward; Amani is off saving captives from a town when we left her nearly dead at the end of the first book. However Hamilton quickly backtracks and we get filled in on what happened to Amani. I didn’t really like how this was done; it’s confusing to the reader at first. However, after this the story got much better.Amani’s time in the harem was interesting, as were her many conversations with the Sultan. Jin isn’t in the story much at all until the end, which was a bit disappointing.There are some really interesting things that happen with the Djinn and the half-Djinn. We get a lot of history on how the Djinn created humans and a lot of mythology behind them which I absolutely loved. I also continue to really enjoy the Middle East type backdrop to the book; it’s an interesting setting for a fantasy story.Overall I was very impressed with this book, I loved it even more than the first book in the series. I continue to enjoy Amani as a character and love some of the twists and turns in the story. I would definitely recommend to fantasy fans.