Others: Mixed When assassins ambush her best friend, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing herself as one of a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light, and a queen of blood. To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven elemental magic trials. If she fails, she will be executed ... unless the trials kill her first.
Genres: fantasy
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Roshani Chokshi
2016 · 355 pages · 8 reviews
Others: Leaning positiveFate and fortune. Power and passion. What does it take to be the queen of a kingdom when you’re only seventeen? Maya is cursed. With a horoscope that promises a marriage of death and destruction, she has earned only the scorn and fear of her father’s kingdom. Content to follow more scholarly pursuits, her whole world is torn apart when her father, the Raja, arranges a wedding of political convenience to quell outside rebellions. Soon Maya becomes the queen of Akaran and wife of Amar. Neither roles are what she expected: As Akaran’s queen, she finds her voice and power. As Amar’s wife, she finds something else entirely: Compassion. Protection. Desire… But Akaran has its own secrets—thousands of locked doors, gardens of glass, and a tree that bears memories instead of fruit. Soon, Maya suspects her life is in danger. Yet who, besides her husband, can she trust? With the fate of the human and Otherworldly realms hanging in the balance, Maya must unravel an ancient mystery that spans reincarnated lives to save those she loves the most…including herself.
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Sara Holland
2018 · 358 pages · 3 reviews
Others: Leaning negativeIn a land where the rich are able to hoard time, Jules Ember returns to the estate where she and her father used to be servants and where the youngest son of an aristocratic family is planning to marry the daughter of the queen.
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Erika Johansen
2015 · 545 pages · 2 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveWith each passing day, Kelsea Glynn is growing into her new responsibilities as Queen of the Tearling. By stopping the shipments of slaves to the neighboring kingdom of Mortmesne, she crossed the Red Queen, a brutal ruler whose power derives from dark magic, who is sending her fearsome army into the Tearling to take what is hers. And nothing can stop the invasion.
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Rebecca Ross
2018 · 439 pages · 2 reviews
Others: Mostly negativeWhen her seventeenth summer solstice arrives, Brienna desires only two things: to master her passion and to be chosen by a patron. Growing up in the southern kingdom of Valenia at the renowned Magnalia House should have prepared her. While some are born with a talent for one of the five passions - art, music, dramatics, wit, and knowledge - Brienna struggled to find hers until she chose knowledge. However, despite all her preparations, Brienna's greatest fear comes true: she is left without a patron. Months later, her life takes an unexpected turn when a disgraced lord offers her patronage. Suspicious of his intent, she reluctantly accepts. But there is much more to his story, for there is a dangerous plot to overthrow the king of Maevana - the rival kingdom of Valenia - and restore the rightful queen, and her magic, to the northern throne. And others are involved, some closer to Brienna than she realizes. With war brewing, Brienna must choose which side she will remain loyal to - passion or blood. Because a queen is destined to rise and lead the battle to reclaim the crown. Who will be that queen?
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Erika Johansen
2016 · 487 pages · 3 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positive"The finale to the ...Tearling trilogy, in which Kelsea is imprisoned by the Red Queen and her guard must find a way to set her free"--
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Samantha Shannon
2018 · 848 pages · 22 reviews
Others: Mostly positiveA world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens. The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction – but assassins are getting closer to her door. Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic. Across the dark sea, Tané has trained to be a dragonrider since she was a child, but is forced to make a choice that could see her life unravel. Meanwhile, the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos are rising from their sleep.
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MixedIt's like an epic high fantasy, but you follow two queens in different time periods, but they both affect each other and I just think that concept's cool, but I don't know if it's I love the concept more and that made me read the book kind of through rose-colored glasses or if I did really enjoy it and I would like the sequel.
Loved itbut love this as well again a villain main character dynamics so good
Not a fanI've read fury born I don't really love it that much but I love Saco girls
Loved itone of the main things I loved about this book is that the storytelling is so intricate Clara Legrand has said that she spent 10 years writing this book and it really shows in how well the story is told and how plot points all fit together
Not a fanso this book supposedly has LGBT rep and the rep in it is supposed to be bisexual rep it was the worst rep that I have seen in a why I book so far when it comes to LGBT I've seen bad rep in other ways but this was really bad bisexual rep
