Children of the Wheel

This long, sprawling, imaginative yarn makes an intriguing allegorical read providing you stick with it. Action and ideas jostle for attention; bits of it were still falling into place with me days after I read it. 'I don't know whether the past and the future can ever really get away from one another. Maybe it's just another circle. Everything goes round and comes back to the same place.' The book is imbued with circles, most significantly the wheels, cogs and their uses invented (again?) by Cyndra long after the land had become dead and the damage-born people lived in their fractured societies. Try it out on able readers.