When she gets an assignment for the Empire, things get a lot more complicated. Magic isn’t a thing anymore, and she lives in a world where the legends of Rielle are looked upon as myth rather than history. She has a unique ability that no one but her brother knows about. –Eliana is a bounty hunter in Ventera 1,000 years later, serving the Undying Empire to protect her family. When she is forced to make her abilities known to save someone else, she undergoes trials to prove herself. Those that could wield used castings and could only control one element… Rielle needs nothing but her anger to wield all seven. –Rielle is a queen of years past in a time where magic was rare. Furyborn is set in the mythical world of Aritas and is told from two points of view in an alternating narrative: Furybornby Claire Legrand drew me immediately into a story that spans one thousand years in a world where angels do not have humanity’s best interests at heart and prophesy is coming true.

This post uses affiliate links and I may receive a small commission for purchases made through my links at no additional cost to you. To find her, Eliana joins a rebel captain and discovers that the evil at the empire’s heart is more terrible than she ever imagined.Īs Rielle and Eliana fight in a cosmic war that spans millennia, their stories intersect, and the shocking connections between them ultimately determine the fate of their world–and of each other. A bounty hunter for the Undying Empire, Eliana believes herself untouchable–until her mother vanishes. One thousand years later, the legend of Queen Rielle is a fairy tale to Eliana Ferracora. If she fails, she will be executed…unless the trials kill her first.

To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven elemental magic trials. When assassins ambush her best friend, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing herself as one of a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light, and a queen of blood. The stunningly original, must-read fantasy of 2018 follows two fiercely independent young women, centuries apart, who hold the power to save their world…or doom it.

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