Title- Crown Duel
Rating– 4/5
Genre- YA historical fiction
Trope- The “chosen one,” royalty courting
Similar Books/Comps– The Truth-Telle’s Tale, Keturah and Lord Death
Emotions- adventurous, intrigued
Characters–
Mel- strong heroine who loves her brother/father
Plot/Blurb-
A deathbed promise to their father sends a daring girl and her brother off to war. Filled with intrigue, romance, and magic, this spellbinding novel is a dramatic coming-of-age story about a girl who rises from impoverished beginnings to take command of her own fate.
Best part-
The literal journey
What I’d change-
I haven’t read the sequel yet, and I need to “change” that
Quote-
“Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me.”
“One doesn’t lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.”
Pacing- Perfect, not too fast or slow, just right
Cassie Swindon 