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"Hero. Foreigner. Queen. Elisa, at the age of seventeen, is all three. And all three draw enemies. Faced with assassins, court politics, and the threat of civil war, Elisa despairs of being the ruler her people need.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Rae Carson
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 424
- Publisher
- Greenwillow Books, HarperCollins Publishers, Gollancz
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780575099203
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Rae Carson (born 1973) is an American fantasy writer. Her debut novel, The Girl of Fire and Thorns, was published in 2011. It was a finalist for the William C. Morris YA Award and the Andre Norton Award, and it was the winner of the Ohioana Book Award for Young Adult Literature. It was also selected as 2012 Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults by Young Adult Library Services Association. The series was a New York Times bestseller. Her books have also been translated into languages around the world. Beginning in 2017, she has written several tie-in stories for the Star Wars universe.
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