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Once, a colony ship crashed on a new planet and seeded it with human life. Now, many generations later, Kelsea lives a simple and strict life in the woods. On her eighteenth birthday the Queen's Guard comes to her hidden home to take her away. She is the Queen of Tear, and now that she's of age, it's time she puts to use all the learning her foster parents stuffed into her head. Kelsea struggles to be a ruler, finding it hard to understand and forgive her birth mother for being a terrible one, a
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I really enjoyed this debut fantasy. Strong, fierce female character, Kelsea, who inherits a throne about which she knows nothing. Once she learns of the evil pact her mother, the previous Queen, who she never met, made with the Red Queen she rapidly begins punching holes in the evil deal. As another reviewer said, it's nice to read a fantasy with a strong female lead that doesn't involve a romance. There are hints of things to come and I am excited for the next book!
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The book opens with Kelsea Raleigh Glynn saying goodbye to her foster parents on her 19th birthday. She is being whisked away (in secret) to New London by the Queen's Guard to take her spot on the throne. Her husband has been hanging out there for about twenty years and he's really a terrible Regent.
Of course, Kelsea doesn't know much about the current situation in the Tearling and she knows nothing about her mother's reign. So as she heads to New London surrounded by the Queen's Guard, she lea ...more
Of course, Kelsea doesn't know much about the current situation in the Tearling and she knows nothing about her mother's reign. So as she heads to New London surrounded by the Queen's Guard, she lea ...more
Jan 25, 2014
Laura
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Reading this felt a little like reading an altered version of Rae Carson's "Fire and Thorns" trilogy. Instead of a living jewel there is a twinned jewel that somehow is activated by Kelsea. Who, by the way, was raised in ignorance of all things royal and yet is expected to, on her 19th birthday, ascend the throne. She's an enlightened ruler, of course, and the people love her. Especially the part about her breaking the treaty with the neighboring Red Queen, which is the part that will create pro
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I picked up this book after hearing it described as the next Hunger Games (which I have read) or Game of Thrones (which I've not). It was an enjoyable read but I'm not sure I'm hooked enough to read future titles in the series. I will say that I'm not a big fantasy reader, so if you are, take my review with a grain of salt.
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Mar 04, 2020
martha
marked it as to-read
