Moon Steps By Stephanie Chamber Summary

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Moon Phases/ Stephanie Chambers/ Fantasy/ Stephanie Chamber's Moon Phases poses an imaginative and complex tale which successfully combines a cast of varied strong willed, powerful, and intelligent female characters enmeshed in a fanciful world teeming with sexism, magic, demons, elves, supernatural abilities and elemental gods. Not only does this story entertain on a fantastical level but it also delivers an empowering message to its female readers. The story begins with the funeral of Ender, father of Queen Lumaris of Kraal. While the others mourn the loss of their patriarch, Lumaris does not, instead she buries her sorrow deep inside, forgoing her mourning process so that she could concentrate on better serving her people, particularly because Kraal is in a rebuilding phase. It has been ten years since Lumaris single-handedly killed Malesh, a cruel despotic ruler who oppressed the people of Kraal to the point that they were afraid to even mention his name. …show more content…

As it turns out, their feelings were right, when news of a horrific invasion of a nearby town ensues with an invading force of the Enacers, being the perpetrators. The Enacers, a people who don't believe in magic and are ruled by a sexist leader, who believes women are weak and can be bent to his will, invade with technology that devastates and overpowers in the land where magic rules. Soon after, Lumaris, confronted with an ultimatum to surrender Kraal or lose all that she holds dear, decides to fight the invaders with the forces of magic. However there is more than meets the eye as it seems that a menace from the past is behind the evil machinations that would lead to

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