Language: G (3 swears, 0 ‘f’); Mature Content: PG (kiss) ; Violence: PG-13 (dead bodies mentioned, one death with mention of blood)
BUYING ADVISORY: HS - OPTIONAL
APPEALS TO: SOME
For five years Pandora has been working to be appointed one of the Queen’s Ingenue’s for a summer. While the other girls want the prestige and hope of an excellent patron with whom to tie their magic, Pandora has revenge on her mind. Pandora was bound when she was a child; her childhood and training was brutal and she barely escaped with her sanity intact. She is hoping that she can find and defeat her cruel patron at last - even if that patron is in the upper echelons of the kingdom.
The final confrontation is quite spectacular and well worth reading, but the rest of the book didn’t draw me in with any sense of urgency. I like Pandora and Weymouth gives us some great moments - there just weren’t enough of them to keep me going steadily. The magic system lacks any foundation. I do like that even though there is romance, it is not the reason for all of the action.
The characters all cue white.
Cindy, Middle School Librarian, MLS
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