Rain-lashed Jakarta is such a forsaken place in both Belenggu and The Forbidden Door that the protagonists are shepherded into diminishing circles, finally unable to trust even themselves.
She turned the vast pages carefully, as if the chasm of lost life and forsaken time they represented might at a slip leap up and swallow them both.
Spiders relocated, both male and female, and I started noticing a lot of spare parts — a forsaken leg or palp lying in a web that used to belong to Paula or Philip or the Right Reverend Karen.
These Gilneans were turned into the undead by the Forsaken, but retained their own free will, and are now enemies of both the Alliance and the Horde.
A novel about a homely, forsaken child is bound to involve hardship and despair, and Shannon certainly endures both, but Ms. Celona adroitly confounds many of our expectations.
Have their gods forsaken them?
O, father forsaken, Forgive your son!
Why hast thou forsaken us, Jamie?
Not dealing with abandonment issues: forsaken.
