Sasha – Joel Shepherd
Hachette Livre, 2007
448 pages
RRP: AU$32.95
ISBN: 978-0-7336-2141-3

Reviewed by Andrew Williams

With Sasha, Joel Shepherd has moved from SF/cyberpunk (Crossover, Breakaway, Killswitch) into the fantasy realm. The main character, Sasha, living in a small village and in training with her mentor, a master warrior, is, as you might expect, a princess. In most stories, however, she would have grown up as an orphan, and discovered (at the climax of the story) that she was in fact a princess. Instead, Sasha grew up in a castle, and when her oldest brother was killed, through treachery, renounced royalty, luxury, and her home to train with the greatest warrior in the kingdom.

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