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Lucier, Makiia

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336 pp. | HarperCollins | November, 2021 | Trade ISBN 978-0-358-27209-0 $17.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-0-358-27203-8 $9.99
(2) YA This romantic fantasy is set (aptly for our times) in the shadow of pestilence and war, albeit in a world of spirits as well as horses, swords and maces, muscular noblemen, and women in lavish gowns. Lord Cas of Oliveras has survived the plague and escaped from three years of slavery in neighboring Brisa; when he arrives home, he finds the king wedded to Brisa's princess, a hard-won alliance resolving decades of war. But even before Cas reaches his family's estate, he has had to rescue the royal baby from an assassin's arrow. Who is targeting the royal family and why? Together, Cas and enthusiastic aspiring historian Lena investigate a mire of secrets, deception, and treachery. Lucier's (Isle of Blood and Stone, rev. 5/18) plot, with its themes of mortality and loyalty, sickness, cruelty, and romance, makes an absorbing tangle of turns and twists. Each illuminates the careful, well-grounded features of the world Lucier has created, and of the scarred, romantic hero she imagines in Cas. Short, sometimes incomplete sentences and rousing action influence much of the pace, but relationships and characterization are at the heart of the story.
Reviewer: Deirdre F. Baker | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2022

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