“Thief, the thing cried, in that thick, hot voice that seemed to come from somewhere else. Thief, robbing us of what is ours….I’ll make you give it back. Make you give it back.”

I picked this randomly out from the library and wasn’t disapointed. This is a fantasy story about a society where women are veiled and controlled by men. Then gradually men who once had magic lose it and women who never had magic before begin to manifest powers. Drought threatens their society, but not as much as magicless men who refuse to accept women’s newfound powers.