In The King-Killing Queen, which author Anna Smith Spark calls “a dark love letter to high fantasy,” a woman discovers her unknown past carries with it a terrible future.
Sylvie Raventress is the devoted apprentice to Master Historian Kell, stepbrother to the High King. She lives a life of scholarly pursuit and privilege hoping to one day take her instructor’s place and write her own histories. But beside King Alafair Goode’s deathbed, Sylvie and his scions learn a surprising truth—she is no orphan but is his named heir.
With her siblings loathing Sylvie’s selection and vying for her throne, she must rely on a Fae guide, a disgraced former First Knight, and a cantankerous light-weaver to restore the fracturing kingdom and become High Queen. And yet the thing none of them know is destiny has its own part to play too…
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Well that's the biggest disappointment of the year. Just couldn't click with the writing style at all. Something about it had a very “young” (almost YA / MG) vibe, and it just couldn't hold my attention. There was a lot of focus on small details and descriptions that just made my mind wander.
