His father is an abusive alcoholic, but freedom comes when Shale realizes that he has the power to detect and manipulate water. Shale, on the other hand, lives in the outskirts of the Quartern, called "the Gibber," in a labor camp where people mine for resin. One day she decides to escape, hoping to become a dancer, and instead discovering that she's capable of much more.
Terelle is a young woman who was sold into a brothel when she was a child by her cruel stepfather, and now lives in dread of reaching puberty and being auctioned off for her virginity like a prize mare.
The two main characters are Terelle and Shale, both teenagers. The last stormlord is dying without a replacement, and hostile factions who have been oppressed by the stormlords are rallying forces to seize powers in the void and resort back to scavenging. All that magic has brought about climate change and water is becoming scarce in a land that desperately needs it. Set in the Quartern, a desert land in which water-sensitive magicians called "Stormlords" are responsible for bringing water, THE LAST STORMLORD is about a land in the middle of political and environmental upheaval. But honestly, that doesn't quite do this book justice, as it's much better written than Game of Thrones and doesn't quite wallow in the physical and sexual violence like GoT does - not to say that this isn't a brutal MF of a book it is. Series fans will love the exciting action and well-developed characters new readers will want to seek out the earlier books.I was describing this book to someone as Game of Thrones, only set in a desert where magicians are responsible for bringing the rains and water is the ultimate currency. Themes of family and identity dominate a story line that is both intimate and world-spanning. In poignant counterpoint, transgender warrior Rubric Verdigris struggles with his conscience and what it means to be a man. Jasper's brother, Sandmaster Ravard, is killing every rainlord he can find even targeting Jasper in hopes of bringing back the Time of Random Rain.
His waterpainter lover, Terelle, wants to help, but a magical compulsion draws her away. Lord Jasper Bloodstone, once a commoner, is the last surviving cloudmaster, but he is unable to manipulate salt water. In the desert-dry Quartern nation, only a cloudmaster can keep people alive by calling the rains. Families are divided, heroes are made, and the fate of the world is decided in the exciting conclusion to Australian conservationist Larke's Watergiver trilogy (after 2010's Stormlord Rising).
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