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missingvolume ([personal profile] missingvolume) wrote2026-01-14 02:06 pm

#3 The Summer War by Naomi Novik

 

The day Celia came into her magical powers she cursed her oldest brother to live without love. Her father now ignores her and her middle brother causing the tow siblings to forge a relationship that was previously prevented to happen due to middle brother’s mother being of low status.  When the king decides that Celia must go to court to marry the prince she finds out that not is all as it seems with the reasons of the marriage and now she is nothing more that someone to be ignored by her new husband as she finds out the true meaning behind the war that has gone on between her people and the elves.  A good novella that reminds the reader of the power of words.

 

Digital review copy provided by the publisher through Edelweiss

A drawing of a lute with sword for a neck and flowers around and on it.