History Literature / RebelOfTheSands

* ChekhovsGun: Amani lives in Dustwalk, a cities famous for its weapon factory. [[spoiler:Since she's been surrounded by metal all her life, her powers have never manifested.]]

* GenderBender: Imin switches gender quite often and not always as a disguise. Their lover Namid [[IfItsYouItsOkay doesn't care what shape they're in]].

** DishingOutDirt: [[spoiler:Amani has harenkinesis, power over sand.]]

* DistinguishingMark: Every Demdji has one, from blue skin until purple hair.

* StockholmSyndrome: When she's captured by the Sultan in the second book, Amani starts to fall into this.

** Only in this case, who's Cain and who's Abel isn't clear-cut. [[spoiler:Amani and Noorsham are half-siblings through their father and on different sides. Amani really doesn't want to kill him but feels she must in order to save her friends while Noorsham is unaware of their connection and thus doesn't hesitate. He escapes after their fight but learns that she's his sister, and Amani is left wondering what he'll do going forward.]]

* ChekhovsGun: Amani lives in Dustwalk, a cities famous for its weapon factory.

* ElementalPowers:
** [[spoiler: DishingOutDirt: Amani has harenkinesis.]]

%%* TheGunslinger: Amani.

%%* MoreThanMindControl: Hala's power.

* [[spoiler: ReallyRoyaltyReveal: Not that dramatic, but apparently Jin is the brother of the famous Rebel Prince, and consequently a prince himself.]]

* ShapeShifting: Imin's power. Maz and Izz too, but they can only shapeshift into animals.

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* TheGunslinger: Amani.

* MoreThanMindControl: Hala's power.

* YouAreInCommandNow: At the end of ''Traitor to the Throne'', [[spoiler:with Ahmed and Shazad captured, Amani realizes that she is the one most qualified to lead the rebellion.]]

''Rebel of the Sands'' is the first book in a planned trilogy by Alwyn Hamilton. Set in the desert land of Miraji, where humans live in awe and fear of magical creatures that lurk in the barrens around them, a determined young orphan named Amani finds herself caught up in a revolution. The Second book of the series is titled Traitor to the Throne, published March 2017. The third book, Hero At the Fall, was published March 2018, closing the trilogy.

* HighFantasy: The book all takes place in the fantastical country of Miraji, which has been described as a cross between the the wild west and ''ArabianNights''. There are magical beasts, tyrannical rulers, and old stories of a world destroying EldritchAbomination...

* SadisticChoice: In book 3, to punish her for [[spoiler:nearly killing them all, the Djinn make Amani choose between two people to die: her lover Jin, or the rebel prince Ahmed. She chooses Ahmed with Jin's blessing and dies with him, but both are resurrected by Bahadur.]]

''Rebel of the Sands'' is the first book in a planned trilogy by Alwyn Hamilton. Set in the desert land of Miraji, where humans live in awe and fear of magical creatures that lurk in the barrens around them, a determined young orphan named Amani finds herself caught up in a revolution. The Second book of the series is titled Traitor to the Throne, published March 2017. The third book, Hero At the Fall, was published March 2018, closing the triloggy.

''Rebel of the Sands'' is the first book in a planned trilogy by Alwyn Hamilton. Set in the desert land of Miraji, where humans live in awe and fear of magical creatures that lurk in the barrens around them, a determined young orphan named Amani finds herself caught up in a revolution. The Second book of the series is titled Traitor to the Throne, published March 2017. The third book is planned for 2018.

* HalfHumanHybrid: Offspring of a Djinni and a human, called Demdji, will have some inherited power from their fathers.

* PersonOfMassDestruction: Most Demdji have illusionary or shapeshifting powers, but [[spoiler:Amani and Noorsham]], children of the same currently unknown Djinn, have ElementalPowers strong enough to level entire cities.

* SweetPollyOliver: Amani when she walks out shooting her gun. A lot of girls do this in this universe to keep themselves safe.

* ArtisiticLicenseLinguistics: The princes are referred to as (given name) Al-Oman bin Izman, meaning son of Oman from Izman. The problem is the articles are wrong, so they should be referred to as bin Oman Al-Izman. Granted, Al can also be the family name and if the Sultan was particularly egotistical he could demand to rename the family after him, but "son of (place name)" is incorrect either way.

* ShapeShifting: Imin's power.

* AlwaysMale: Djinni in this universe is always male.

* CoolHorse: The Buraqi.

* IKnowYourTrueName: You can control Demdji and call Genie by knowing their true names.

* [[spoiler: PowerNullifier: As a gunner, and a citizen of Dustwalk, surrounded by all the metal to nullify her power all her life, Amani doesn't get to realise that she has super power until after her gun's missing from her hand.]]

* ShapeShifting:Imin's power.

* SweetPollyOliver: Amani when she walks out shooting her gun. A lot of girls do this in this universe to keep themselves safe.
* XMeetsY: The setting is described as Wild West meet Arabian Nght

''Rebel of the Sands'' is the first book in a planned trilogy by Alwyn Hamilton. Set in the desert land of Miraji, where humans live in awe and fear of magical creatures that lurk in the barrens around them, a determined young orphan named Amani finds herself caught up in a revolution.

* ActionGirl: Amani, who is a dead shot with a gun. [[spoiler: Later she gets magic sand powers.]]

* OurGhoulsAreCreepier: Ghouls kill and eat people, taking the forms of their last victims to trick their next ones. They, too, can only be killed by iron, and unlike the feral Nightmares, Ghouls are intelligent and ''patient.''

* HighFantasy: The country of Miraji, a cross between the the wild west and ''Arabian Nights''.

* HighFantasy: The country of Miraji, a mix between the the wild west and ''Arabian Nights''.

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