The Oracle Betrayed (The Oracle Sequence, #1)

by Catherine Fisher

After she is chosen to be "Bearer-of-the-god," Mirany questions the established order and sets out, along with a musician and a scribe, to find the legitimate heir of the religious leader known as the Archon.

• ISBN10: 0060571594
• ISBN13: 9780060571597
• Publish Date: 15 February 2005 (first published 16 January 2003)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Imprint: Collins
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 352
• Language: English

Reviews

[ladygrey]

This was a nice little book. I'd read [a:Catherine Fisher|190887|Catherine Fisher|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1309461768p2/190887.jpg] before and enjoyed [b:Incarceron|332775|Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)|Catherine Fisher|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327414514l/332775._SY75_.jpg|323310] so when I learned it wasn't her first novel I was curious about her other books. Turns out this was her first book published in the US.

The story is pretty simple. But the characters are interesting if not entirely deep they're well developed enough to support the story. The mythology of the world is interesting, something a little like [b:The Thief|19063|The Book Thief|Markus Zusak|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1522157426l/19063._SY75_.jpg|878368] but somehow both more involved and less profound.

The allusions to the sequel at the end have a great deal of foreboding and kind of suck some of the excitement out of the victory because you feel like even as the characters win they lose some of their power. Which is an interesting dynamic and makes me curious to read the next one.