I got into this story straight away as the beginning is unique and interesting. Of course it could have been a lot harder to get the interest going given the initial setting so all credit to the author. The novel starts in the hill fort of the sheep men and their life is a grim one of enforced monotonous work with no room for any fun. Their function is to survive. As it says in the novel "Do the work, grinding work. Keep the sheep safe. Collect water. Guards the barricades. Survive."
Meanwhile there are other tribes around like the horsemen, the farmers, the city dwellers and the witches from Witch Crag, but the witches are avoided because everyone is scared of them.
Kita, a teenage girl from the sheep men, has visions and knows she needs to escape from her life with the sheep men. She is drawn to Witch Crag. So she sets about doing this convincing two of her friends to escape with her. Along the way they stumble across the city which is a place in ruins with metallic vehicles left from before the Great Havoc, vehicles called cars. There they are captured before they escape to finally make it to Witch Crag where the witches are not as scary as they had been made out to be. Having done so matters turn to war, with the city dwellers breaking out from their ruins to try and invade all the other tribes. Only an alliance between the farmers, horsemen, sheep men and witches can have any chance to stop them, but who will befriend the big bad witches?
A gripping story about escape, then battle, and maybe coming of age along the way for the young lead characters, that is suitable for teens up.
(I got this book through Amazon Vine. It is listed here.)
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