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The Queen's Rising

By: Rebecca Ross
Narrated by: Suzanne Elise Freeman
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An epic and exhilarating story of deception, love and revenge, from the extraordinary Sunday Times and New York Times number-one-bestselling author of DIVINE RIVALS. Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo, Sarah J Maas and Shelby Mahurin.

Brienna is an arden, a student of the five passions – art, music, wit, dramatics and knowledge. On the summer solstice in her seventeenth year, she hopes to become mistress of the passion – one who has mastered her area of study. But Brienna knows that she was not granted a coveted place at her passion-house because of talent, like her arden-sisters. She is here because someone wished her hidden.

Brienna has never learned her father’s identity. All she knows is that her mother was Valenian – from the land of elegance, etiquette and learning – and her father was Maevan. Brienna has never set foot in Maevana, but knows it is a wild, windswept place, fiercely proud of its ancient heritage of magical warrior queens – yet now suffering under the rule of a tyrannical king.

Then Brienna begins to have visions: the inherited memories of a long-dead Maevan ancestor, who hid the legendary Stone of Eventide. If the Stone can be found, the rightful queen of Maevana can be restored to the throne. And Brienna has the power to do it.

Swept into a dangerous new life of secret alliances, generations-old enmities, deep family secrets and smouldering first love, Brienna must ask herself what is stronger: the bond of chosen family, or that of blood . . .

©2018 Rebecca Ross (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Action & Adventure Historical Historical Fiction Literature & Fiction Fiction Royalty Inspiring

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Great book, easy to follow, good mix of characters. Just wish I'd realised book 2 isn't yet available, as I want to have it now. Due in 2019

I'm hooked

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I loved the world building and the premise was exciting but the love story was a bit pedestrian and the use of magic completely sidetracked. It had potential but in the end just kind of bored me.

Predictable and a bit of a let down

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The main character is thoughtful, complex, and imperfect. The love story is creepy and difficult to subscribe to. Especially since this is YA, I don’t think we should be glorifying a teacher x student grooming relationship.
The plot dragged and could’ve been so much more but was extremely anticlimactic and predictable.

Interesting main character but predictable plot

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