Loved itIt's a fun sort of historical fantasy and you deal with gladiators, but female gladiators and it was just a great read and I hadn't really read anything like that before.
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The valiant (2017)
Others: Positive Fallon is the daughter of a proud Celtic king and the younger sister of the legendary warrior Sorcha. When Fallon was just a child, Sorcha was killed while defending their home from the armies of Julius Caesar. On the eve of her seventeenth birthday, Fallon is excited to follow in her sister's footsteps and earn her place in her father's war band. She never gets the chance.
- ISBN:
- 9780448493787
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- 372 pages
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