“For the last ten years, Fireli had been caught in a time warp where every day had been the same. He hasn’t seen Fee or Xavi for the last decade. ➽ Rye - Prince, and Xavi’s brother, who is promised to Fee. Her mother is queen of one of the other three kingdoms. ➽ Quinn - The Princess who is promised to Xavi. Also, he suffers from chronic illness that makes him fatigued frequently. ➽ Xavi - The soon to be King, since he will be anointed king on his next birthday. Fee also notices that she might be doing some magical things some on accident and some on purpose. ➽ Ophelia/Fee - The star of this book, who has spent the last ten years of her life training under her kingdoms healer, so that she can one day take over. This book follows Ophelia, but we also get to see three other’s lives that impact hers. And we also get to see how friends and family were separated, only able to correspond through letters. This story does a few flashbacks to let us know what life before the epidemic that put the kingdom on lockdown was like.

You must never use more than the barest of Fireli’s meager resources. “Fireli’s Three Seclusion Rules: You must never leave the castle grounds of Fireli, or the confines of your hamlet if you live outside the castle. And it is still mandatory to take a tonic every day. Ten years ago, a plague almost killed everyone, but they were able to get most of the children out, and able to give some of the people who were unable to leave an antidote that saved their lives.

In this world, there are four kingdoms, but one of the kingdoms has been under quarantine for almost a decade. And the twists and turns felt so forced and so unrewarding. I felt like I was reading a magical soap opera. This wasn’t a bad book, nor was it offensive by any means, it was just way too over the top. “Keep your secret close, for your enemies are all around you…” You can also find her on Twitter Instagram, and Facebook.ĪRC provided by the publisher via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review. Where she blogs weekly about living on a small farm atop a mountain in the Blue Ridge and how it’s easiest to handle most of it with home grown food, a breathless adoration for tractors, and a large dose of single malt scotch. The Antidote (HarperCollins February 2019) is a YA novel about magic and medicine, and the witches who wield them both. Her next novel, The Freemason's Daughter (HarperCollins, 2017) is a story about a 16 yr old Scottish girl living in 1715 who's raised entirely by six burly Scotsman-and they're all smugglers. Her first novel, DEAR OPL (Sourcebooks 2015), is a tale about a snarky, overweight thirteen-year old, who suffers from loss everywhere in her life except on her body. Which is where she lives now and continues to write. Discovering her stories needed more space than two verses a bridge and a chorus could provide, she began storytelling in earnest. Realizing she would never be able to enjoy ice cream like real people should, she left the state and lived the blissful life of a traveling musician. Shelley Sackier grew up in a small farming community in Northern Wisconsin continually searching for ways to grow warm.

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