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The Queen's Rising
by Rebecca Ross
Brienna is approaching her seventeenth summer solstice and she worries about charming a patron with her passion and being selected. If she isn’t then she will be labeled inept and basically disgraced from society. Her grandfather brought Brienna to Magnalia House when she was ten and she spent years moving from passion to passion until she was stuck with knowledge, with only three years of training before her solstice. While her friends got to enjoy themselves after classes, Brienna spent the years studying and trying to catch up for lost time in other passions. She trains under Master Cartier with another classmate, desperately trying to soak up the few study sessions remaining before the solstice.
The morning after the solstice, Brienna finds herself without a patron so she remains at Magnalia House alone while her friends leave with their patrons. She spends the summer studying, but after having a few inherited ancestral visions, she confides in the Dowager who writes to a friend, and soon Brienna is sworn to secrecy, vowing to disappear without letting her friends and grandfather know, to join a patron with experience regarding ancestral visions.
Brienna finds herself in the middle of a century long secret between the houses of Maevana and Valenia, where she shares blood with both. Working with her new patron family as well as the should be queen, Brienna begins a journey to upset the balance of Maevana’s ruling so that a queen may finally rise again.
I loved every second of reading this story which I quickly devoured over the course of 24 hours. This is an original and fresh fantasy set in a world where Queens are warriors and in charge. The romance was easy to spot, but it didn’t take up unnecessary space and Brienna didn’t transform into a love-struck airhead constantly thinking about her crush.
The only negative comment is the family lineage charts at the front of the book. The “shocks” aren’t shocking due to the charts where you easily know who Brienna’s father is (despite all the hush hush regarding it) and I also picked out who the other character’s real identities were because of the charts.
This is part of a trilogy, but it ends as a standalone and can be read as such.
I received an ARC of The Queen’s Rising from Edelweiss.
The morning after the solstice, Brienna finds herself without a patron so she remains at Magnalia House alone while her friends leave with their patrons. She spends the summer studying, but after having a few inherited ancestral visions, she confides in the Dowager who writes to a friend, and soon Brienna is sworn to secrecy, vowing to disappear without letting her friends and grandfather know, to join a patron with experience regarding ancestral visions.
Brienna finds herself in the middle of a century long secret between the houses of Maevana and Valenia, where she shares blood with both. Working with her new patron family as well as the should be queen, Brienna begins a journey to upset the balance of Maevana’s ruling so that a queen may finally rise again.
I loved every second of reading this story which I quickly devoured over the course of 24 hours. This is an original and fresh fantasy set in a world where Queens are warriors and in charge. The romance was easy to spot, but it didn’t take up unnecessary space and Brienna didn’t transform into a love-struck airhead constantly thinking about her crush.
The only negative comment is the family lineage charts at the front of the book. The “shocks” aren’t shocking due to the charts where you easily know who Brienna’s father is (despite all the hush hush regarding it) and I also picked out who the other character’s real identities were because of the charts.
This is part of a trilogy, but it ends as a standalone and can be read as such.
I received an ARC of The Queen’s Rising from Edelweiss.