Kingdom of Souls
Books | Young Adult Fiction / Fantasy / Epic
3.6
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Rena Barron
A girl with no gifts must bargain for the power to fight her own mother’s dark schemes—even if the price is her life. Crackling with dark magic, unspeakable betrayal, and daring twists you won’t see coming, this explosive YA fantasy debut is a can’t-miss, high-stakes epic perfect for fans of Legendborn, Strange the Dreamer, and Children of Blood and Bone.“Magnetic and addictive. This book is black girl magic at its finest.”—New York Times bestselling author Dhonielle ClaytonHeir to two lines of powerful witchdoctors, Arrah yearns for magic of her own. Yet she fails at bone magic, fails to call upon her ancestors, and fails to live up to her family’s legacy. Under the disapproving eye of her mother, the Kingdom’s most powerful priestess and seer, she fears she may never be good enough.But when the Kingdom’s children begin to disappear, Arrah is desperate enough to turn to a forbidden, dangerous ritual. If she has no magic of her own, she’ll have to buy it—by trading away years of her own life.Arrah’s borrowed power reveals a nightmarish betrayal, and on its heels, a rising tide of darkness that threatens to consume her and all those she loves. She must race to unravel a twisted and deadly scheme… before the fight costs more than she can afford.Set in a richly imagined world inspired by whispered tales of voodoo and folk magic, Rena Barron’s captivating debut is the beginning of a thrilling saga about a girl caught between gods, monsters, and the gift and the curse of power. “Masterful.” —SLJ (starred review)
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Author
Rena Barron
Pages
512
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published Date
2019-09-03
ISBN
0062870971 9780062870971
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"Kingdom of Souls is the first part of a trilogy and the debut novel by the author Rena Barron. The first book packed enough into it that it could have been a series itself. I read this on ebook and was shocked to find out its print length is just shy of 500 pages. So much was put into this.
The book follows Arrah who also serves as the narrator. She travels every year to the tribal lands with her father for the Blood Moon Festival in hopes she will be gifted magic by the god Heka. By age sixteen, she is doubtful it will ever happen as no one in the five tribes has come into their power older than her current age. She resigns herself to being powerless until a child kidnapper invades her home.
She does the unthinkable: trades years of her life for magic to see who the kidnapper is and makes a disturbing discovery that permanently alters her life. It goes quickly once you've gotten into it and fels both longer and shorter than 500 pages with you left wanting more.
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