Rebel Of The Sands (book)

Rebel Of The Sands is the first book in Alwyn Hamilton's YA series

Summary
She's more gunpowder than girl-and the fate of the desert lies in her hands.

Mortals rule the desert nation of Miraji, but mythical beasts still roam the wild and remote areas, and rumor has it that somewhere, djinn still perform their magic. For humans, it’s an unforgiving place, especially if you’re poor, orphaned, or female. Amani Al’Hiza is all three. She’s a gifted gunslinger with perfect aim, but she can’t shoot her way out of Dustwalk, the back-country town where she’s destined to wind up wed or dead.

Then she meets Jin, a rakish foreigner, in a shooting contest, and sees him as the perfect escape route. But though she’s spent years dreaming of leaving Dustwalk, she never imagined she’d gallop away on a mythical horse —or that it would take a foreign fugitive to show her the heart of the desert she thought she knew.

Dustwalk

 * Amani - Sharpshooter, Blue-Eyed Bandit.


 * Zahia - Amani's mother, hanged for murder of her husband.
 * Hiza - Amani's step-father, killed by Zahia.


 * Asid - Amani's uncle who she lived with after her mother died, horse trader, married to Farrah.


 * Farrah - Amani's aunt. Eldest sister to Amani's mother


 * Shira - Amani's cousin, Farrah's only daughter.


 * Tamid - Amani's childhood friend, Holy Father in training, walks with a limp due to deformity at birth.


 * Fazim - Shira's lover

Rebellion

 * Ahmed - Prince Ahmed Al-Oman Bin Izman, leader of the Rebellion, The Rebel Prince.


 * Shazad - Daughter of the General Hamad, well-trained fighter, among original memebers of the Rebellion, right hand man to Ahmed.


 * Bahi - Childhood friend of Shazad, disgraced Holy Man.


 * Jin - The mysterious foreigner who helped Amani escape Dustwalk. Later revealed to be a prince of Miraji, half-brother of Ahmed, full name Ajinahd Al-Oman Bin Izman.

Demdji

 * Delila - Demdji marked by purple hair, able to cast illusionsnin the air, Ahmed's sister by blood, Jin's sister by adoption.


 * Hala - Demdji marked by golden skin, able to twist people's minds into halluncinations.


 * Imin - Demdji marked by golden eyes, able to shape-shift into any human form, Hala's half-sibling.


 * Izz and Maz - Twin Demdji marked by blue skin and blue hair respectively, able to shape-shift into any animal form.


 * Noorsham - Demdji marked by blue eyes, able to produce Djinni fire, Amani's half-brother, born in Sazi.

Izman

 * Naguib - the Sultan's fourteenth son, he was eliminated from the Sultim trials by Ahmed's return and made Commander.
 * Lien - Sultan's wife, Jin's mother, escaped with Jin. Ahmed, and Delila after Nadira's death, died of illness.
 * Nadira - Ahmed and Delila's mother by blood, killed by the Sultan after giving birth to Delila.