New series:
Court of Fives
by Kate Elliott
Summary from GoodReads:
Jessamy’s life is a balance between acting like an upper-class Patron and dreaming of the freedom of the Commoners. But away from her family, she can be whomever she wants when she sneaks out to train for the Fives, an intricate, multilevel athletic competition that offers a chance for glory to the kingdom’s best competitors.
Then Jes meets Kalliarkos, and an improbable friendship between the two Fives competitors—one of mixed race and the other a Patron boy—causes heads to turn. When Kal’s powerful, scheming uncle tears Jes’s family apart, she’ll have to test her new friend’s loyalty and risk the vengeance of a royal clan to save her mother and sisters from certain death.
In this imaginative escape into an enthralling new world, World Fantasy Award finalist Kate Elliott’s first young adult novel weaves an epic story of a girl struggling to do what she loves in a society suffocated by rules of class and privilege.
This is an interesting new type of Teen fiction, and I like it! The book has a lot of the general rules for teen literature--a girl that kicks booty, a love story, overcoming an obstacle of class and birth, etc. but there are introductions of new things, such as the arena (like The Hunger Games, but WAY more intelligent), burial rituals, and human-size spiders--both real and machine.
Jes is a great character, and everyone who reads this story will really be pulling for her--she does not get dealt a great hand, but she was strong before this happened, and she will continue to stay strong. What I especially love about this book is that while she and Prince Kal have feelings for each other, my girl here has her priorities straight--save her family at all costs, even if it means obstacles in her relationship with Kal.
I highly suggest this book for fans of dystopias, fantasy, and science fiction! Books #2 is on its way!
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