Zahrah the Windseeker

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This will be a short post, since chomiji and amarykate have already reviewed it here.

I've done a longer review here, but to summarize - this is a delightful book, and well worth the reading for anyone who likes YA quest fantasy. Zahrah's world is whimsical and interesting, and fascinatingly animistic - everything she meets seems to be smart, even though not all of them talk, and it's very much not All About Her.

My only quibble with it (which almost certainly won't be nearly such a problem for its intended audience) is that it's narrated in the first person. Zahrah's head is not all that interesting a place to be - I'd much rather be in the world directly.