Sunday, October 6, 2024

Masquerade of the Heart by Katy Rose Pool - OPTIONAL

Masquerade of the Heart by Katy Rose Pool, 364 pages. Henry Holt (Macmillan), 2024. $17

Language: R (39 swears, 8 ‘f'); Mature Content: PG-13 (kissing); Violence: PG-13 (bloody death)

BUYING ADVISORY: MS, HS - OPTIONAL

AUDIENCE APPEAL: SEVERAL

18yo Marlow Marlow watches as 18yo Adrius announces his engagement and her heart breaks. She knows that Adrius has to marry someone from a rich and powerful family to appease his own family but it hurts all the same. Marlow wants to stop the person who cursed Adrius because that person is wanting to control everyone and everything in Caraza, just as Adrius was controlled by the curse. Marlow gets help from Adrius and a few of their most trusted and clever acquaintances. Together they work together to hopefully put a stop to the tyrant before he takes over.

I enjoyed the intensity of the conflict between good and evil. The curse and the story behind it are so interesting. I love the ending!

The ethnicity falls to white.

LynnDell Watson, DHS Librarian, Delta, Utah

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