The book I read was called the Wind singer. It was the first book of the three in the series Wind on fire. The book it self was all about the battle of good vs. evil. The book the Wind Singer was a very detailed book. Although it was placed in an odd setting. There were salt mines and mud dewellers. The society there is much like our own. Every person in the Aramanth has two ratings. A family rating and a personal rating. A ranting is given to a person to identify their stature in society. They are each given an examination to see if their rating is move up or shamefully move down. The city is built like a social pyramid, each persons rank gives them a place to live according to their rank and the lower the rank the poor the city is.

Kess and Bowman are two people who will not stand the exams any longer. Kess throws a fit on the building called the Wind singer. The wind singer is a building that stands in the middle of the amphitheater in the Aramanth. Kess was sentenced to a life long learning and if a person ended up there it was disgraceful to their family. After her daring escape, Kess ends up by luck to have a meeting with the Emperor who is never seen. The Emperor tells her of the morha and how its evil has a hold on the city. He tells her that see must stop it. So following a map Kess, Bowman and a smelly little boy with no father named Mumpo, set out on the quest to retrieve the Wind Singers voice. The Wind Singers voice was stolen long ago by the people called the Zars. They were jealous to see that the Manth people had something that sounded so beautiful and brought peace to their city. So they attacked and took it. That’s when every thing in the Aramanth went to examinations and ranks. On the journey, Kess and Bowman find that the human mind can sometimes be corrupt and even cruel.