The mark of the Tala

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Personal Author:

Kennedy, Jeffe, 1966-

Physical Description:

338 pages : map ; 21 cm.

Series:

Twelve kingdoms ; book 1

Genre:

Fantasy fiction.

Summary:

Andromeda, a high king's middle daughter, finds her life taking a drastic turn when the king of a supernatural land of shapeshifters and demons takes her as his queen.

Subject Term:

Marriages of royalty and nobility -- Fiction.

Queens -- Fiction.

Shapeshifting -- Fiction.

Demonology -- Fiction.

Publication Information:

New York : Kensington Publishing, 2014.

Subject:

Marriages of royalty and nobility -- Fiction.

Queens -- Fiction.

Shapeshifting -- Fiction.

Demonology -- Fiction.

Fantasy fiction.

Morganatic marriages

Royal marriages

Royalty

Rulers

Sovereigns

Metamorphosis -- Folklore

Metamorphosis (in religion, folk-lore, etc.)

Shape-shifting

Therianthropy

Demonology -- Comparative studies

Demonology, Christian

Demons

Evil spirits

SAILS ISBN:

9780758294432

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Library	Shelf Number	Shelf Location	Status
Searching... Norfolk Public Library	F KENNEDY, J. MAR	FICTION	Searching... Unknown

Queen Of The Unknown

The tales tell of three sisters, daughters of the high king. The eldest, a valiant warrior-woman, heir to the kingdom. The youngest, the sweet beauty with her Prince Charming. No one says much about the middle princess, Andromeda. Andi, the other one.

Andi doesn't mind being invisible. She enjoys the company of her horse more than court, and she has a way of blending into the shadows. Until the day she meets a strange man riding, who keeps company with wolves and ravens, who rules a land of shapeshifters and demons. A country she'd thought was no more than legend--until he claims her as its queen.

In a moment everything changes: Her father, the wise king, becomes a warlord, suspicious and strategic. Whispers call her dead mother a traitor and a witch. Andi doesn't know if her own instincts can be trusted, as visions appear to her and her body begins to rebel.

For Andi, the time to learn her true nature has come. . .

Reviews (1)

Library Journal Review

As the middle daughter of the High King, Andi isn't the warrior (that's older sister -Ursula) or the beautiful one (younger sister Amelia has that sewn up), but she does have a distinct tie to her mother's people, the Tala, that might change the balance of power in the realm. No one in the Twelve Kingdoms speaks of the dead queen or the Tala, so when Andi, while out riding, meets the mysterious Rayfe, she is stunned to find out that he is king of the Tala and that she is destined to be his queen. -VERDICT The fairy-tale setup only hints at the depth of worldbuilding at work in this debut series. What could be cliched is instead moving as Andi is torn between duty to her father and the pull of Rayfe and his kingdom. Andi starts out passive, in the shadows, and insecure but experiences great growth as the story develops. This well-written and swooningly romantic fantasy will appeal to fans of Juliet Marillier's "Sevenwaters" series or Robin McKinley's The Hero and the Crown. (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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