Falling Kingdoms
by:
Morgan Rhodes (author)
Treacherous betrayals, secret alliances, unforeseen murders, and forbidden love The world of Mytica will hold you captive: AURANOS - Privileged Princess Cleo is forced to confront violence for the first time in her life when a shocking murder sets her kingdom on a path to collapse. ...
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Treacherous betrayals, secret alliances, unforeseen murders, and forbidden love The world of Mytica will hold you captive: AURANOS - Privileged Princess Cleo is forced to confront violence for the first time in her life when a shocking murder sets her kingdom on a path to collapse. LIMEROS - The king’s son, Magnus, must plan each footstep with shrewd, sharp guile if he is to earn his powerful father’s trust, while his sister, Lucia, discovers a terrifying secret about her heritage that will change everything. PAELSIA - Rebellious Jonas lashes out against the forces of oppression that have kept his country cruelly impoverishedand finds himself the leader of a people’s revolution centuries in the making. Witches, if found, are put to death, and Watchers, immortal beings who take the shape of hawks to visit the human world, have been almost entirely forgotten. A vicious power struggle quickly escalates to war, and these four young people collide against each other and the rise of elementia, the magic that can topple kingdoms and crown a ruler in the same day.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781595145857 (1595145850)
ASIN: 1595145850
Publish date: March 11th 2014
Publisher: Razorbill
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
Series: Falling Kingdoms (#1)
***Spoilers ahead you’ve been warned*** I rather enjoyed this one. Somewhat. The characters are really what drives this book (some of them that is) and while the plot moves at a medium pace, it’s understandable as this introduces you to the setting, the characters and what’s in store for us as rea...
What an awesome, start to what I hope is a fantastic series. I bought the first book but didn't have money to buy the next one. But luckily my library had it as an ebook, so I downloaded that one as well. I can't decide who was my favorite character or if I really have one as of yet, there all pret...
Great start to what seems like will be a sweeping, juicy fantasy series. Don't let some of the book descriptions fool you. Wolfed right through this one very quickly -- unusual for me with all the POV and location switches which can sometimes go very wrong for me. Loved it. Not quite traditio...
There is so much going on in this book! What a journey. There are three different kingdoms and four main characters that we jump back and forth between. Kingdom of Auranos: Princess Cleo is the youngest daughter. She is spoiled, stubborn, a bit immature and engaged to a vile little drunk. While jo...
I have never read Game of Thrones, and it is not on my to-read list, but from what I know about Game of Thrones I'd say that the author of this book was trying to create a YA version of that series.Lots of people die. There are a bunch of different POVs, and it's hard not to hate most of the charact...