After invaders shatter her ocean world, a young guardian faces captivity and slavery while searching for her sister.
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After invaders shatter her ocean world, a young guardian faces captivity and slavery while searching for her sister.
What if fear itself is the deadliest undercurrent of all? Nica would do anything to avoid the hassles of her sister's bonding ceremony--the wrap fittings, hairstyles, and braided fire coral--but she never imagined that the waters covering her planet would be broken. As the heavens rained fire and stone, mountains erupted from the sea and dry ground was birthed on the Deep, dividing the water--and the Olomi people--for the first time in their history. In the wake of her world's violent re-formati...
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Bonding ceremony; forced impregnation of captive women as conquest subplot
Disaster violence, gruesome scenes, and brutality tied to conquest and slavery
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Recurring themes of faith, hope, and perseverance amid suffering
Fantastical water-dwelling people and ocean-world setting
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Central colonization allegory: terraforming, conquest, and oppression
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Slavery, invasive medical tests, forced impregnation, abduction, sustained cruelty
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