Rise of a Hero

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name = Rise of a Hero
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author = Hilari Bell
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cover_artist = Steve Stone
country = United States
language = English
series = Farsala trilogy
genre = Fantasy novel
publisher = Simon & Schuster
release_date = May 2005
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media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 480 pp (first edition, hardback)
isbn = ISBN 978-0-689-85415-6 (first edition, hardback)
preceded_by = Fall of a Kingdom
followed_by = Forging the Sword

"Rise of a Hero" is the 2005 fantasy novel which comprises the second book in the Farsala Trilogy by Hilari Bell.

Plot summary

Legend has it that when Farsala most needs a warrior to lead it, Sorahb son of Rostam will be restored by the god Azura. That time has come. After a devastating loss to the army of the Hrum, Farsala has all but fallen. Only the walled city of Mazad and a few of the more uninhabitable regions remain free of Hrum rule, and they seem destined to fall as well. Farsala needs a champion now. Soraya risks being a slave in the Hrum camp to save her little brother and her mother which are currently slaves, embedded in their slave pens. Kavi, has second thoughts about helping the Hrum and switches sides. While on the other hand Jiaan and Soraya still hate Kavi and are furious when the three are re-united.

Literary significance & criticism

A number of reviews for this second novel have praised the work::"The tangible, if not excessively gritty, realness of the world and its conflicts denies any simple good vs. evil binary" cite web | title=Rambles review | last=Mo | first=Jennifer | work=Rambles: a cultural arts magazine | url=http://www.rambles.net/bell_rise04.html | date=28 October 2006 | accessdate=2007-03-06 ]

:"Rise of a Hero is an ambitious, tightly written and highly intelligent fantasy" cite web | title=Rambles review | last=Mo | first=Jennifer | work=Rambles: a cultural arts magazine | url=http://www.rambles.net/bell_rise04.html | date=28 October 2006 | accessdate=2007-03-06 ]

Footnotes

References

*cite web | title=Simon & schuster: Rise of a Hero | last= | first= | work=Publishers website | url=http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?tab=4&pid=500485 | date= | accessdate=2007-03-06
*cite web | title=SFRA on Rise of a Hero | last= | first= | work=Science Fiction Writers of America | url=http://www.sfwa.org/members/bell/risehero.html | date= | accessdate=2007-03-06