Language: PG-13 (14 swears, 0 “f'); Mature Content: PG-13 (fondling); Violence: PG-13 (bloody deaths)
BUYING ADVISORY: HS - OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: MANY
19yo Hazel is the thirteenth child in her family and treated like she’s not wanted by anyone except her brother Bertie who is one year older. When Hazel is twelve, her godfather takes her so she can train to become a great healer while Bertie is sold to a temple to pay off their father’s debts. Hazel learns that her duties as a healer also include helping people pass onto their deaths as gently as possible. She feels that this is a curse and not a blessing. When she’s nineteen, Hazel has become the healer of the royal family after she saved the king’s life from a plague; she was supposed to move him onto death but didn’t want his children to be orphans. Now that the king feels well, he is becoming an unpredictable, angry tyrant and Hazel knows she made the wrong choice by healing him. Will she be able to make this right before he destroys the kingdom?
I loved every bit of this story! Amazing character development and wonderful world building. Hazel is strong and kindhearted.
Hazel and her family are white. Merrick, Hazel’s godfather is obsidian skinned, Hazel’s friend Kieron has chestnut skin.
LynnDell Watson, DHS Librarian, Delta, Utah
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