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The first several pages of this book drew me in and I really wanted to find out what was going to happen to the main character. The narrative stayed interesting until about the time Shanti is rescued by a troop of young boys and taken to the nearest city. Here are some of the things that started to throw me: 1) The author seems to have some bizarre obsession with characters and nudity. This wouldn't make any difference to me, but it doesn't really seem to factor much into the story, other than getting in the way of the narrative. 2) The main character is on the run from powerful evil, and yet she doesn't seem too keen on letting anyone else know that they are in imminent danger. She meets a character who has powers similar to her own, though he doesn't realize it, and her immediate impression is not that she should somehow join forces, but rather that she should kill him so that the approaching evil that she won't even warn anyone about can't make a tool out of him. 3) The main character is given a troop of young boys. We're to believe that she turns them into capable fighters in nothing flat through the use of harsh language, physical abuse and hide and go seek. Give me a break. 4) When referring to her hosts sexual life, the author literally uses the term 'playing tootsie'. I'm sorry, but not only does inappropriate slang prevent me from suspending my disbelief, it also makes me wonder whether the author takes the whole enterprise very seriously in the first place.