I Can’t Wait For…The Queen’s Price by Anne Bishop
Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted over at Wishful Endings to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about but haven’t yet read. Most of the time they’re books that have yet to be released, but not always. It’s based on the Waiting on Wednesday meme, which was originally hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.
This week my Can’t-Wait-For Book is The Queen’s Price by Anne Bishop!
The Queen’s Price by Anne Bishop Genres: Fantasy, Secondary World Fantasy, Queer Protagonists
Published on: 7th March 2023
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Enter the dark and sensual realms of the Black Jewels in this sweeping story in the New York Times bestselling fantasy saga of three young women who must navigate life within the powerful SaDiablo family--and come to terms with Witch, the Queen who is still the heart and will of that family.
The Queen's price is to stand against what you know is wrong. To stand and fight, no matter the cost to your court or to yourself. Especially to yourself.
Zoey, a young Queen-in-training at SaDiablo Hall, is wounded...and vulnerable to taunts and criticism. When an opportunity arises to befriend a stranger seeking sanctuary at the Hall, she puts herself and others in danger by ignoring Daemonar Yaslana's warning to back off.
Meanwhile, the witch Jillian's family prepares for her Virgin Night, the rite of passage that assures a woman will retain her power and her Jewels. The trouble is Jillian secretly went through the ceremony already. Now she has to explain the omission of that detail to her powerful and lethal family. And the High Lord of Hell's daughter, Saetien, travels to Scelt to find out about Jaenelle Angelline's sister--and perhaps to discover truths about herself.
With some guidance from Witch, these three young women will learn when to yield because it is right--and when to take a stand, even if they must pay the Queen's price.
The Black Jewels series has been one of my best-beloveds for most of my life – and I thought the previous book, The Queen’s Weapons, was going to be the last one ever!
SO YOU CANNOT BEGIN TO COMPREHEND MY EXCITEMENT WHEN I LEARNED WE’RE GETTING ANOTHER BOOK AFTER ALL!!!
Bishop’s books are always published in early March, right around my birthday, so they always feel like the best of birthday presents! And this one honestly sounds especially epic – I love the concept and message of the Queen’s Price, and can’t wait to get to explore it!
The Queen’s price is to stand against what you know is wrong. To stand and fight, no matter the cost to your court or to yourself. Especially to yourself.
I mean. !!! That’s a precept (code? rule? tenet? not quite sure what the right term is) I can seriously get behind.
And on another note – I’m SO happy we have a gorgeous brown woman on the cover! The three long-lived races in the Black Jewels ‘verse are all brown-skinned, but they haven’t made it onto the covers very often – the skin colour of the model on the Tangled Webs cover is a bit ambiguous, and we got a brown model on the cover of The Queen’s Weapons, but there the lighting/filter downplayed it a bit. Whereas there’s nothing the slightest bit ambiguous about this cover, and I adore it!
(I will admit the flower petals took me aback a bit, but Queen’s Price is probably going to be much less dark than some of the earlier books. I just hope new readers don’t pick this up thinking it’s going to be something it’s not. Light flowery romance is really not Bishop’s style.)
You’d better believe I slammed the preorder button! Now to wait with bated breath till March…
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