The Queen’s Rising by Rebecca Ross
This book is brilliant. I recommend it to
anyone looking for a thriller to take them into another world of magic. When I
started ‘The Queen’s Rising’ I knew straight away that I wouldn’t be able to
put it down. The plot is not just intriguing but also enjoyable.
The book is about a girl of 17 called
Brienna approaching her last summer solstice at Magnolia House, Valenia. In
Valenia, the education system is of patronship. There are five passions -
knowledge, wit, music, art and dramatics - and you can be trained in any one of
the passions. Magnolia House runs a seven year program, allowing girls to embrace
any one of the five passions during their time.
However Brienna has a difficult past that
she must accept; Valenia’s enemy is Maevena and Brienna holds a dual
citizenship. To make it all worse, Brienna doesn’t have an obvious passion like
most people, so after attempting one passion for each of her first five years,
she settles with knowledge. At the summer solstice though, Brienna isn’t chosen
by any of the patrons and is forced to stay on at Magnolia.
Eventually the Dowager finds Brienna a
patron, but he is an undercover Lord of Maevena - which is split into 14 pieces.
But he is also one of three lords that rebelled 25 years ago…
The book draws you in and I’m sure I could
rave about it for hours but you won’t like that - because I think you have some
serious reading to do! I can’t wait for ‘The Queen’s Resistance’!
FictionFan1 Rating: 10/10
About the author: Rebecca Ross grew
up in Georgia, USA where she still lives with her husband. She has had many
jobs including a school librarian but ‘The Queen’s Rising’ was her debut novel
which she published recently in 2018.
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