the healing wars book i the shifter janice hardy

At first, Nya refuses, but when Tali and other League Healers mysteriously disappear, she’s faced with some difficult choices. She pushes her luck too far and exposes her secret to a pain merchant eager to use her shifting ability for his own sinister purpose. Rumors of another war make Nya’s life harder, forcing her to take desperate risks just to find work and food. Re-enter the fascinating world of Healers and Takers in the gripping sequel to THE PAIN MERCHANTS in the epic dystopian fantasy adventure trilogy, THE HEALING.

Book One: The Shifter Book Two: Blue Fire And now, on to the interview. See the complete Healing Wars series book list in order. If discovered, she’d be used as a human weapon against her own people. Blue Fire The Healing Wars The story so far. The Healing Wars book series by Janice Hardy includes books Shifter, Blue Fire, and Darkfall. All she can do is shift it from person to person, a dangerous skill that she must keep hidden from forces occupying her city. Her appealing narration chronicles her expanding worldview as she progresses from a self-interested survivalist to a reluctant heroine to a determined rebel.

She is also a Taker-with her touch, she can heal injuries, pulling pain from another person into her own body.īut unlike her sister Tali and the other Takers who become Healer’s League apprentices, Nya’s skill is flawed: she can’t push that pain into pynvium, the enchanted metal used to store it. First-time author Hardy has written an inventive coming-of-age tale about a likable young woman whom readers will cheer throughout her exploits. A war orphan in occupied Geveg, a society in which the highly regulated pain trade is a. Fifteen-year-old Nya is an orphan struggling for survival in a city crippled by war. Janice Hardy The Shifter: The Healing Wars, Book I 373 pp.

The healing wars book i the shifter janice hardy