Language: PG (1 swears, 0 ‘f'); Mature Content: PG-13 (touching, kissing); Violence: PG-13 (bloody deaths)
BUYING ADVISORY: MS, HS - ADVISABLE
APPEALS TO: MANY
Isla leads the Wildlings and she meets all leaders of the other realms for a competition at Lightlark. Celeste is the Starling leader, Isla’s good friend, and together they want to break the curse that settles on every realm. When Isla slips and falls into the sea, King Oro saves her from drowning even though her death would be taken as a sacrifice for the realm to lift the curse; one of the realm leaders must die at the Centennial celebration to satisfy the curse. Grim, the Nightshade leader, seems taken with Isla but she’s not sure if he’s sincere or conning her. Isla has stolen clothes to be able disguise herself as a woman from the other realms so she can enter their libraries and search for the bond breaker that can break the curse for everyone. Her life is endangered at every turn as she tries to hide that she's completely powerless. She has no idea who she can trust.
I love the beautiful descriptions and the variety of interesting characters. The author creates an amazing world and I didn’t want to stop reading. New and refreshing fantasy.
The ethnicity is a mix of fantasy people and different colors of natural skin tones.
LynnDell Watson, DHS Librarian, Delta, Utah
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