Mahimata, Rati Mehrotra
Mahimata, Rati Mehrotra
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Mahimata

Author: Rati Mehrotra

Series: Asiana #2

Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller

Unabridged: 16 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/28/2019

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Epic


Synopsis

A young female assassin must confront the man who slaughtered her family, risk her heart, and come to terms with her identity as a warrior and as a woman in this thrilling fantasy from the author of Markswoman.

Kyra has returned to the caves of Kali, but her homecoming is bittersweet. She no longer knows what her place is. Her beloved teacher is dead and her best friend Nineth is missing. And gone, too, is Rustan, the Marksman who helped her train for the duel with Tamsyn—and became far more than a teacher and friend.

Shaken by his feelings for Kyra and the truth about his parentage, Rustan has set off on a quest for answers. His odyssey leads him to the descendants of an ancient sect tied to the alien Ones—and the realization that the answers he seeks come with a price.

Yet fate has plans to bring Kyra and Rustan together again. Kai Tau, the man who slaughtered Kyra's family, wages war on the Orders of Asiana. Hungering for justice, Kyra readies herself for battle, aided by her new companions: the wyr-wolves, who are so much more than what they seem. And determined to keep the woman he loves safe, Rustan joins the fight to ride by her side.

But will this final confrontation ultimately cost them their love . . . and their lives?

About Rati Mehrotra

Born and raised in India, Rati Mehrotra now lives and writes in Toronto, Canada. She is the author of the YA fantasy novel Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove and the science fantasy novels Markswoman and Mahimata. Her stories have been shortlisted for The Sunburst Award, nominated for The Aurora Award, and appeared in multiple venues including The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, and Apex Magazine. She loves to cook; when not writing, she is often to be found in the kitchen, experimenting with new recipes.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah on March 26, 2019

This started stronger than it finished, and I don't think it was as good as the first book, Markswoman. I think the big issue here is that a lot of those standardized YA Fantasy tropes Mehrotra managed to avoid in book one, had a full throttle, pedal to the medal presence here. The romance was a huge......more

Goodreads review by Adah on March 23, 2019

Mahimata is a nice end to the duology.......more

Goodreads review by Feliza on September 10, 2019

While the ending wasn't really to my tastes, overall a satisfying conclusion to the duology and a series I'd recommend to other readers.......more

Goodreads review by Ayushi (bookwormbullet) on May 20, 2022

3.5 stars rounded up......more

Goodreads review by Beth on February 16, 2019

Full disclosure: I provided a blurb for the first book of this duology and the publisher also supplied me with a gratis copy of Mahimata for review. Rati Mehrotra's Asiana duology comes to a fantastic conclusion in Mahimata. In this Asian-inspired fantasy settings with unique sci-fi twists, Kyra is a......more