Possibly worth a read
I found a blurb about the book The Secrets of Jin-shei on Sci Fi Wire today, and it sounded intriguing enough for me to find out more about it. It sounds like an interesting story, although the premise does remind me too much of the first-sister bond of the Aiel in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series (one of my favs). But I’m always interested in intriguing stories, so I think I might give this one a go.