Hector just so happened to be from the rebelling Southern Isles, and if he was reinstated as his father’s heir, why, there’s two problems solved! So Elisa affiances herself to Hector while he’s off being kidnapped. I don’t know if I’ve even accomplished that now, much less at seventeen, but loving ourselves is a life-long journey.Īs she faces down a civil car, Elisa realizes if she marries someone from the afflicted area, it could shore up her position with those people. She’s also continuing to build upon her journey from the last book to love herself and have confidence in her choices.

I’m proud of you, girl! Elisa is making decisions like a queen (and, okay, some decisions may be a teensy bit based on being a girl in love, but what’s life without love?). But all that adversity has honed her determination, and even when the going is tough she refuses to complain. Only a few days have passed since the end of the last book, so Elisa is still reeling from losing Hector and losing her grip on a country that’s cracking down the center. But Elisa has a secondary goal, because she knows knowledge is power and she’s curious: what, exactly, IS going on in the Invierno capital? Why are they so desperate for her to be there? And what’s this rumor she’s hearing that they have another living Godstone bearer? Together they race to track Hector’s captors and rescue him from what will likely be a certain death. So things are looking, to put it lightly, rough.Įlisa gathers up her closest allies-Mara, her lady-in-waiting who’s handy with a bow and arrow Belen, the reformed traitor turned her spymaster and Storm, an exiled Invierno prince who she saved from the zafira and is now loyal to her cause. Joya d’Arena was also dissolving into a civil war as one of her highest advisors began a coup against her.

In the final pages of Crown of Embers, Hector was taken as a hostage by the Inviernos in exchange for Elisa’s cooperation to surrender as a living sacrifice. I love these paperback cover redesigns they’re very classy compared to the originals (definitely requires a brown bag, all of them). Careful, Sweetie: spoilers! This is the third book in the Girl of Fire and Thorn series, so if you haven’t read the first or second books, you should probably hop back in the TARDIS and go curl up in the library by the pool with the first book before continuing.

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