I've had a copy of the first book in this series for several years now, but I haven't picked it up yet despite having heard good things about this series.
Blurb for Three Dark Crowns (book one):
Three sisters. One crown. A fight to the death.
In
every generation on the island of Fennbirn, a set of triplets is born:
three queens, all equal heirs to the crown and each possessor of a
coveted magic. Mirabella is a fierce elemental, able to spark hungry
flames or vicious storms at the snap of her fingers. Katharine is a
poisoner, one who can ingest the deadliest poisons without so much as a
stomachache. Arsinoe, a naturalist, is said to have the ability to bloom
the reddest rose and control the fiercest of lions.
But becoming
the Queen Crowned isn't solely a matter of royal birth. Each sister has
to fight for it. And it's not just a game of win or lose . . . it's
life or death. The night the sisters turn sixteen, the battle begins.
The last queen standing gets the crown.
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I really have no excuse for not having read any of the books in this series yet. Especially as I've had copies of both An Ember in the Ashes AND A Torch Against the Night for several years.
I've seen so much love for this series and I hope I get to start it soon.
Blurb for An Ember in the Ashes (book one):
Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death.
When
Laia's grandparents are brutally murdered and her brother arrested for
treason by the empire, the only people she has left to turn to are the
rebels.
But in exchange for their help in saving her brother,
they demand that Laia spy on the ruthless Commandant of Blackcliff, the
Empire's greatest military academy. Should she fail it's more than her
brother's freedom at risk . . . Laia's very life is at stake.
There,
she meets Elias, the academy's finest soldier. But Elias wants only to
be free of the tyranny he's being trained to enforce. He and Laia will
soon realize that their destinies are intertwined – and that their
choices will change the fate of the Empire itself.
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I've had a copy of The Kiss of Deception for ages now (you might be sensing a theme here) and haven't read it yet. This is another series that I've heard good things about and definitely want to get to at some point.
Blurb for The Kiss of Deception:
In a society steeped in
tradition, Princess Lia’s life follows a preordained course. As First
Daughter, she is expected to have the revered gift of sight—but she
doesn’t—and she knows her parents are perpetrating a sham when they
arrange her marriage to secure an alliance with a neighboring kingdom—to
a prince she has never met.
On the morning of her wedding, Lia
flees to a distant village. She settles into a new life, hopeful when
two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive—and unaware that one is the
jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. Deception
abounds, and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous
secrets—even as she finds herself falling in love.
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I claimed my sister's copy of The Darkest Minds when she unhauled it. That was over a year ago now and I still haven't gotten around it, surprise, surprise.
Blurb for The Darkest Minds (book one):
When Ruby woke up on her
tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming
enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police.
Something that gets her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government
“rehabilitation camp.” She might have survived the mysterious disease
that’s killed most of America’s children, but she and the others have
emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they cannot
control.
Now sixteen, Ruby is one of the dangerous ones.
When
the truth comes out, Ruby barely escapes Thurmond with her life. Now
she’s on the run, desperate to find the one safe haven left for kids
like her—East River. She joins a group of kids who escaped their own
camp. Liam, their brave leader, is falling hard for Ruby. But no matter
how much she aches for him, Ruby can’t risk getting close. Not after
what happened to her parents.
When they arrive at East River,
nothing is as it seems, least of all its mysterious leader. But there
are other forces at work, people who will stop at nothing to use Ruby in
their fight against the government. Ruby will be faced with a terrible
choice, one that may mean giving up her only chance at a life worth
living.
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I must be one of the only book bloggers that hasn't read the Percy Jackson series yet.
I definitely plan to read it before the Disney+ series starts, especially as I know so many people love these books.
Blurb for Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief:
Percy Jackson is about
to be kicked out of boarding school... again. And that's the least of
his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount
Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek
mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of
them. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the
prime suspect.
Now Percy and his friends have just ten days to
find and return Zeus's stolen property and bring peace to a warring
Mount Olympus. But to succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more
than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who
abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of
betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the
gods themselves.
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Have you read any of these series?
Would you recommend them?
