This is a short quick read, only 112 pages, but there’s quite a bit of story set up in there. It might spoil things for you a tiny bit, but honestly, the books are quite predictable so it might instead serve to enhance the way you read the following books (I obviously have read them so I can’t say for sure). I think this is a very good example of a prequel that could be read either by those who have already read and enjoyed the existing two books of the series or someone just starting. But before they were poisoner, elemental and naturalist, they were children, sisters and friends. Katharine, Arsinoe and Mirabella – three young queens born to fulfil their destiny – to fight to the death to win the crown. Or perhaps it would be the girl born under the best shield of luck. One would rise to become queen in her place. Three black witches, born to a descending queen. I snapped this up and read it so quickly you would not believe. I was therefore delighted to find that the novella/prequel The Young Queens was available on my Library’s free ebook service. This is her story.Hello humans! I’ve been working my way through the Three Dark Crowns series over the last year or so, since YALC 2017 and in anticipation of the end of the series which I believe is happening this year. Or at least, that is how the tale is told. She was overcome by paranoia and false visions, driven past the brink by the phantom thoughts of others in her head, so she set upon the capital with bloody ruin, murdering whole houses, whole family lines, without trial. This is the tale of the last sight-gift queen to be allowed to live.
It is a harsh sentence, but necessary, for it is well-known that in a queen the sight gift will run strong.
This had been the practice for hundreds of years, so long that few were even born any more, as if the Goddess knew it would be a waste.
The Oracle Queen - historically, baby queens born with the sight gift were drowned. It's also the story of the day they were torn apart and the immediate years that followed before the opening of Three Dark Crowns. The Young Queens is the story of the three queens when they were born, before they were separated - it gives a short glimpse of the time when they all lived together, loved each other and protected one another. Queens of Fennbirn contains two gripping stories from the New York Times bestselling Three Dark Crowns universe, written by Kendare Blake.
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