Except at the "climax" of the book when her voice is used by an oracle, maybe, it's a little unclear. Not present at the actual pivotal events of the conflict, oh no, but available to hear about them second and third hand. Her role in the book is to simply be present in the city where a revolution (if you can call it that) takes place. She has a great deal of ambition and motivation but never acts on any of it. The main flaw of this book is the main character, whose name I can't remember even though I finished listening to the program yesterday. The character is an oracle so her failure to ever do anything is explained as part of her nature, which doesn't make it any less boring. This book is mostly world building, which normally I like, except nothing much happens in this world until the last third or so of the narrative, when all the conflict gets fortuitously solved by a string of unrealistic events with which our main character has precious little to do. The previous book was far too short, this one makes up for the lack by dragging on without really going anywhere (failing to go anywhere might be the actual theme of the story).
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