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The Oracle Queen

The Oracle Queen

Urban FantasyYA Fantasy
Pages
120
Published
2018
Language
English

Synopsis

Triplet queens born on the island of Fennbirn can be many things: elementals, poisoners, naturalists. If an oracle queen is born, however — one with the gift of sight — she is drowned immediately, extinguishing any chance of her taking the throne.

It was not always so. The practice began with Queen Elsabet, the legendary and last oracle queen, whose reign was tinged with blood and horror. Paranoid, ruthless and utterly mad, Elsabet's mistrust is said to have led to the senseless slaying of three entire houses of innocent people. At least, that is the unchallenged tale passed down through generations.

But what really happened? The Oracle Queen tells the true story behind the queen who, though born with the gift of sight, could not foresee her own swift and sudden fall from power — until it was too late. A prequel e-novella to Kendare Blake's Three Dark Crowns series.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

DarkTenseAtmospheric
Court IntrigueBetrayal

Genres

Urban Fantasy YA Fantasy Fantasy

About the author

K
Kendare Blake

Kendare Blake is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of young adult fiction. She is best known for the horror novel Anna Dressed in Blood and its sequel Girl of Nightmares, the Three Dark Crowns fantasy series, and the standalone thriller All These Bodies, which won the YALSA Teens' Top Ten award. Born in Seoul, South Korea, and adopted as an infant, she was raised in Cambridge, Minnesota. She holds a degree from Ithaca College and a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Middlesex Universit...

Characters

Queen ElsabetProtagonist

The last oracle queen of Fennbirn, remembered as mad and murderous.

All characters in The Oracle Queen