![]() ![]() If she can keep noble sisters Sarai and Dove safe through the summer, Aly will be returned to her family. Instead of resigning to her fate, Aly strikes a deal with the trickster god. The tale opens when she finds herself kidnapped by pirates and sold into slavery far from home. Like the author’s other fantasy heroines, Aly is flawed and capable, which is precisely why she can turn a sudden misadventure into an epic story of a lifetime. In this day and age, book series like Throne of Glass would not exist without the queen of YA fantasy herself, Tamora Pierce. Her skills eventually take her to the royal court of Brittany, where she finds herself outpaced by high society intrigue and backstabbing. ![]() The nuns in this story are literally the “handmaidens of death,” and Ismae is the best of the best. For Ismae, becoming a killer nun isn’t a choice - it’s the only way she can escape marrying a cruel, older man against her will. ![]() The story centers on seventeen-year-old Ismae in a time when common-born girls had few rights. ![]()
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