'Scarlet Odyssey' was my pick from Amazon's First Reads offer this month.
It's a debut novel from a young writer, born in Zimbabwe and educated in Costa Rica and the US and now living in South Africa. I was attracted to it because I've seen some great things coming from African Science Fiction writers in the past few years. This one takes the classic fantasy quest framework and weaves in new-to-me mythologies and has some novel gender-based divisions of labour - woman are the quick-witted ones who learn and wield magic, men are the ones who attack big beasts with their bare hands.
It's off to an excellent start with two interesting characters (who haven't met yet) some startling magic and a lot of action.
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