Who is up for adventure, romance, fantastic escapes and some awesome writing?! I recommend this series with unreserved enthusiasm! Meet Elisa who is the second daughter to a king. She has a happy life with her nurse, tutor and secret visits to the head cook. One day her father announces she is to marry a man she has never met plus he lives in a far away kingdom. Elisa reluctantly does as her father asks and on the day of the marriage receives some strange advice from her sister "Be strong, sister."
This is the beginning of a non-stop adventure with Elisa trying to find her place in the new court, figure out what her sister meant and how to help her husband become a strong leader. As she learns who to trust, Elisa begins to fall in love with her husband. Then one night, Elisa is kidnapped from her bedroom and begins a new role for a supposed enemy. As the days go by, Elisa discovers hidden strengths and untapped knowledge within her self and begins a slow transformation into a formidable woman. An excellent coming of age novel hidden within a quest, romantic and adventure novel.
The narrator chosen for the audio is perfect. Jennifer Ikeda is perfect for the voice of Elisa and works in different accents and gruffness when dealing with multiple characters. I was racing through the disks trying to see how things would end. My only quibble with the novel is some unresolved story lines. I am not sure if we will meet Elisa's father and sister in the next books but they seem to left dangling. Also this book cries out for a map. I would have loved to keep track of Elisa's physical journey. I think this would have enforced the growth of the main character. I also recommend this for car journeys of higher middle grade and up.
Six degrees of Reading: Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas, Defiance by C.J. Redwine, Grave Mercy: His Fair Assassin by Robin LaFevers.
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