Title: The Impostor Queen
Release Date: January 5th, 2016
Genre: romance, young adult, fantasy
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Sixteen-year-old Elli was a small child when the Elders of Kupari chose her to succeed the Valtia, the queen who wields infinitely powerful ice and fire magic. Since then, Elli has lived in the temple, surrounded by luxury and tutored by magical priests, as she prepares for the day when the Valtia perishes and the magic finds a new home in her. Elli is destined to be the most powerful Valtia to ever rule.
But when the queen dies defending the kingdom from invading warriors, the magic doesn’t enter Elli. It’s nowhere to be found.
Disgraced, Elli flees to the outlands, the home of banished criminals—some who would love to see the temple burn with all its priests inside. As she finds her footing in this new world, Elli uncovers devastating new information about the Kupari magic, those who wield it, and the prophecy that foretold her destiny. Torn between the love she has for her people and her growing loyalty to the banished, Elli struggles to understand the true role she was meant to play. But as war looms, she must align with the right side—before the kingdom and its magic are completely destroyed.
This book was a bit weird to read but this book was original. This review will probably be short and gif-less since it's been a couple of days since I've read this.
This book was basically about this girl, Elli, who's suppose to take over the position to be queen with tremendous powers and the ability to control both ice and fire after the Valtia, current queen, dies. Once she does, Elli doesn't get her powers as she's supposed to and runs away to the the land outside of the kingdom. Then the story goes on from there.
I really enjoyed this book and it was impossible to put it down. The story was unique and different yet it almost reminded me of Avatar: The Last Airbender since the concept it almost the same.
I really liked the main character Elli. She wasn't afraid to speak her mind and do what she wanted and I love how hard working she is after having everything taken away from her and her situation did suck a lot. I was awed to find out that Elli was bisexual, or was in love with a woman during the beginning of this book and it was really interesting since you never really find that in YA lately. Also, she becomes physical disabled with her right hand. So you have main character who's suppose to be queen but didn't who is physically disabled and bisexual. Name a book where you'll find that at.
I also thought the romance was just a bit insta-lovey because you don't really see her and the guy communicate much and only have a little scenes with each other that aren't enough. This book does have the potential to have a love triangle but the other guy is more interested in Elli for other reasons instead of her.
Like I said before, this review is going to be short and not detailed much since I read this book only a while ago but overall I enjoyed the books originality and I can't wait for the second book in the series since it leaves you with a lot of questions of what's going to happen next. A great start to a series!
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