The long-awaited companion to the New York Times bestseller
Graceling and Fire
Bitterblue
Series: Seven Kingdom, book 3
Pub: 2012,
gollancz
Author: Kristin Cashore
Genre: fantasy
Format: paperback (lar); 539pp w/ 49
chapters
Age Range: YA
Synopsis
Eight
years have passed since the young Princess Bitterblue, and her country, were
saved from the vicious King Leck. Now Bitterblue is the queen of Monsea, and
her land is at peace.
But the
influence of her father, a violent psychopath with mind-altering abilities,
lives on. Her advisers, who have run the country on her behalf since Leck’s
death, believe in a forward-thinking plan: to pardon all of those who committed
terrible acts during Leck’s reign; and to forget every dark event that ever
happened. Monsea’s past has become shrouded in mystery, and it’s only when
Bitterblue begins sneaking out of her castle—curious, disguised and alone—to
walk the streets of her own city, that she begins to realise the truth. Her
kingdom has been under the thirty-five-year long spell of a madman, and now
their only chance to move forward is to revisit the past.
Whatever
that past holds.
Two
thieves, who have sworn only to steal what has already been stolen, change her
life forever. They hold a key to the truth of Leck’s reign. And one of them,
who possesses an unidentified Grace, may also hold a key to her heart....