SPOILER ALERT! If you haven’t read any of the books in the Graceling series, Stop! I don’t want to ruin the story for you. Characters from the previous books do play roles in this latest installment.
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“Four years after Bitterblue left off, a new land has been discovered to the east: Torla; and the closest nation to Monsea is Winterkeep. Winterkeep is a land of miracles, a democratic republic run by people who like each other, where people speak to telepathic sea creatures, adopt telepathic foxes as pets, and fly across the sky in ships attached to balloons.
But when Bitterblue’s envoys to Winterkeep drown under suspicious circumstances, she and Giddon and her half sister, Hava, set off to discover the truth–putting both Bitterblue’s life and Giddon’s heart to the test when Bitterbue is kidnapped. Giddon believes she has drowned, leaving him and Hava to solve the mystery of what’s wrong in Winterkeep.
Lovisa Cavenda is the teenage daughter of a powerful Scholar and Industrialist (the opposing governing parties) with a fire inside her that is always hungry, always just nearly about to make something happen. She is the key to everything, but only if she can figure out what’s going on before anyone else, and only if she’s willing to transcend the person she’s been all her life.” - taken from Goodreads.com
Only four years may have passed since Bitterblue but it has been EIGHT since the last book was published! It’s been a long wait but it was so worth it. Bitterblue is once again the main character but this time she shares the storyline with Lovisa Cavenda, a teenage girl from Winterkeep who discovers the horrible secrets that her political parents have been keeping. Swept up in a deadly game of intrigue and underhanded information, Lovisa must decide where her loyalties lie before it’s too late.
Fans of the previous book will be a little disappointed that some of our favorite characters from past books are only briefly mentioned.
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