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An epic fantasy filled with adventure, intrigue, and romance from Incarnate series author Jodi Meadows. This duology is perfect for fans of Graceling by Kristin Cashore, The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson, and Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo.
When Princess Wilhelmina was a child, the Indigo Kingdom invaded her homeland. Ten years later, Wil and the other noble children who escaped are ready to fight back and reclaim Wil’s throne. To do so, Wil and her best friend, Melanie, infiltrate the Indigo Kingdom palace with hopes of gathering information that will help them succeed.
But Wil has a secret—one that could change everything. Although magic has been illegal for a century, she knows her ability could help her save her kingdom. But magic creates wraith, and the deadly stuff is moving closer and destroying the land. And if the vigilante Black Knife catches her using magic, she may disappear like all the others. . . .
- Sales Rank: #40232 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-03-10
- Released on: 2015-03-10
- Format: Kindle eBook
From School Library Journal
Gr 7 Up—Wilhelmina—more frequently known as Wil—is a princess. However, she's a royal who's more used to stealing food than curtsying in a palace. Wil's homeland of Aecor was conquered 10 years earlier by the Indigo Kingdom and Wil and a band of other orphaned children of Aecor nobility have been living secretly as refugees in Skyvale, the capital of the Indigo Kingdom. The teen and the other refugees have plans to take back their home by infiltrating the palace. As Wilhelmina's mission inside the palace proceeds, it is complicated not just by her secret ability to practice magic—which has been forbidden for almost a century—but also by her connection to the vigilante Black Knife, a masked figure who helps the poor and the weak in the streets of Skyvale. Fans of Katniss and the Sisters of St. Mortain from Robin LaFevers's "His Fair Assassin" series (Houghton Harcourt) and other strong, vengeful female heroines will root for Wil, as she plots revolution, struggles with her conflicted feelings for Black Knife, and discovers more about wraith, the toxic by-product of magic. Although this series opener starts off with poorly executed exposition to provide the necessary background, the plot quickly picks up pace, and the highlights of this novel are the subtle lessons in the sacrifices and responsibilities of leadership, as well as the unique way in which magic use and wraith are echoes of our own world's debate about environmental justice.—Evelyn Khoo Schwartz, Georgetown Day School, Washington, DC
Review
Hidden identities, allusions to environmental concerns, a clever heroine with a worthy potential love interest, and some monster-mashing fight scenes elevate this romantic series opener. A cliff-hanger ending will have many readers exclaiming aloud their impatience at having to wait for the sequel. (Booklist)
Fans of Katniss and the Sisters of St. Mortain from Robin LaFevers’s “His Fair Assassin” series and other strong, vengeful female heroines will root for Wil. (School Library Journal)
Meadows delivers a powerful coming-of-age story. (Publishers Weekly)
Solid worldbuilding, interesting characters and just enough romance make this an enjoyable read. (Kirkus Reviews)
Meadows deftly juggles a multitude of plot points here, managing to link each element to Wil’s growth as a character. A cliffhanger ending puts a beloved character’s life in peril, ensuring both a sequel and readers’ clamoring for it. (Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books)
One of the most compelling fantasies I’ve ever read. Fans of strong heroines, secret identities, and terrifyingly dangerous magic should put Jodi Meadows at the top of their ‘to read’ lists. (C.J. Redwine, author of the Defiance trilogy)
THE ORPHAN QUEEN casts its spell from the first page. Exquisite, captivating and romantic —Jodi Meadows’s world forbids magic, but THE ORPHAN QUEEN is brimming with it. I loved this book! (Danielle Paige, New York Times bestselling author of Dorothy Must Die)
From the Back Cover
Wilhelmina has a hundred identities.
She is a princess. When the Indigo Kingdom conquered her homeland, Wilhelmina and other orphaned children of nobility were taken to Skyvale, the Indigo Kingdom's capital. Ten years later, they are the Ospreys, experts at stealth and theft. With them, Wilhelmina means to take back her throne.
She is a spy. Wil and her best friend, Melanie, infiltrate Skyvale Palace to study their foes. They assume the identities of nobles from a wraith-fallen kingdom, but enemies fill the palace, and Melanie's behavior grows suspicious. With Osprey missions becoming increasingly dangerous and their leader more unstable, Wil can't trust anyone.
She is a threat. Wraith is the toxic by-product of magic, and for a century using magic has been forbidden. Still the wraith pours across the continent, reshaping the land and animals into fresh horrors. Soon it will reach the Indigo Kingdom. Wilhelmina's magic might be the key to stopping the wraith, but if the vigilante Black Knife discovers Wil's magic, she will vanish like all the others.
Jodi Meadows introduces a vivid new fantasy full of intrigue, romance, dangerous magic, and one girl's battle to reclaim her place in the world.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
A fantastic start to a new YA fantasy series!!
By Lori
I really, really loved this book. It’s so exciting when you get to start a new series and even more exciting when you fly right through the book and love it! I would definitely recommend this book to fans of Snow Like Ashes by Sara Raasch, The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson, and Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas. It almost felt like a mash-up of those three books with a little bit of Batman mixed in there. That might sound weird, but it worked. Believe me.
There is a lot going on in this book. At first I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to keep it all straight and I’d get lost along the way, but it actually worked really well together. Once I got the hang of the alliances and kingdoms and the wraith, everything else just fell into place and it all flowed really well together. Sometimes when there are so many elements happening at once, something just doesn’t fit in, but it all fit together nicely, especially the further on in the book I got. Pieces just kept falling into place and I loved that.
One of my favorite things about this book was the characters. I really love Wilhelmina. She started off knowing she was the princess of a fallen kingdom and wanting to do nothing but get her kingdom back. She was a fighter and a protector but not really a leader. She spent so much time thinking about those who were close to her and protecting them that she hadn’t really spent the time thinking about what winning her kingdom back would really mean and what the best way to do that was. When she had the time to think about it, everything changed. I loved to see her go through that and, in a sense, really grow up and become a leader of her people. And even though she changed and grew up throughout the book, I liked her both in the beginning and at the end. I also like that we know who she is from the very beginning. There’s no big reveal about how she’s the lost princess or anything. We just know.
The supporting characters in this book were so good, too! They were so well developed and interesting and had me questioning what I thought was going to happen. They didn’t always turn out like I thought they would or do the things I wanted them to. They kept me on my toes and turning the pages and I loved that! There is some secret identity things going on and some romances and while I didn’t necessarily like every character in the book (which we aren’t suppose to do), I loved the roles they all played. I can’t wait to learn more about them in the next book and see if some of my predictions are right about where they might be going and planning!
Which leads right into the next thing I need to talk about. This book has one of the biggest, meanest cliffhangers ever. And I’m not exaggerating. At least, I don’t think I am. Maybe there are some out there that I haven’t read yet. But this one is seriously bad. I definitely had one of those moments turning the page back and forth wondering if maybe my ARC had been missing a page or two. And maybe it was. I’m still holding out a little hope that when my finished copy shows up, there will be a couple of more pages in the end of it. It’s definitely what I’ll be looking at first thing I get my hands on it! I don’t want to keep hammering on the same thing, I just want to prepare all of you for the pain that comes at the end of the book. It’s so good, but most definitely painful. In some sick way, I kind of loved it. But mostly I just want to know what happens right after the book ends! I NEED TO KNOW!! If anyone has any kind of information about this, please share it with me!
Okay, enough with that. I feel that I’ve warned you plenty about the pain this book can cause. And I certainly don’t want you to be turned off by that. It’s definitely worth the pain. This book was seriously good and very addicting. If you’ve read all of the Throne of Glass books and need a new series to start, I highly recommend this one. It’s full of action, political intrigue, princes and princesses, runaways, secret identities, spies, magic, a little bit of romance, and a kick-ass heroine!! I loved it! Now go read it!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Great fantast
By Eve
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Rating: 5 Stars
The Orphan Queen is a story following Wilhelmina and while she has multiple identities at the moment through and through she is a princess of a kingdom taken over by the Indigo Kingdom ten years before in the One Day War. She and many others were left orphans and taken into the Indigo Kingdom but as they escape they took on the title of Ospreys and learn stealth and theft anything to survive and take back her thrown. To do so she will work as a spy and infiltrate Skyvale Palace and gather information on their foes. However, taking her throne back isn't that simple, on top of dealing with those difficulties there is a much larger issue at stake, the Wraith, toxic by-product of magic making magic illegal for years, is working it's way across the continent laying waste to the land. Even if she manages to get her crown back she will still have to contend with this threat.
Let us start with Wil, she is different than what I have come to expect from characters reclaiming their thrown. She may be the rightful queen but her and the Ospreys have a different leader of their group, Patrick. His father was the former General and he was the oldest when they escaped making him the best choice to get them where they needed to be. Wil is a skilled fighter, they all are after years of surviving, which makes her pretty bad ass. We also learn from the start she herself has magic, a flasher, but thankfully no one knows or she could be killed. With magic being illegal and the cause of the Wraith it's a touchy subject. She's a master forger and loves the art of writing and drawing and I enjoyed the way it played out. As a future queen of her people she also sees a larger picture and while she lets others lead she does not blindly follow but questions and looks for her own answers.
In Skyvale one figure in particular hunts down flashers and those who hurt the city, Black Knife. Black Knife is a very complex character. He is one to be feared but as we continue we come to see more of him and just what he does. He is a vigilante but he also is doing so to save the people of the city which is commendable. I think I liked this character the best as I got to know him and even as I suspected who Black Knife was beneath the mask early on it was fun to watch it play out. I don't think the identity is meant to be shocking, I think there is enough out there to make the reader suspect and in turn enhance the character without fully confirming until the final section.
The characters and their interactions were what really moved things along for me. I was invested in them, Patrick and his rule of the Ospreys and did I trust him or not, her best friend Melanie and did I suspect her, the other ladies of court while under cover and their motives. Clearly I distrust everyone it seems. We also can't forget some of our men, Prince Tobias and his cousin / guard James and of course our masked Black Knife all of whom have their moments both good and bad. All of them formed a web that makes you want more. And if that isn't enough you really get to dive into the whole world of Skyvale and the Wraith. Trying to figure out what it is and how to stop it and the beasts it creates keeps you guessing. What is rumor, myth, and what might actually help. All while giving us hints of the past with connections and magic itself. Along with pieces of what Wil herself can do as she struggles with what she thought she knew of the past and what is becoming clear may be well and true.
Overall it really took off and after the first 70 or so pages where I enjoyed it I moved to hard to put down. I am so glad I waited to read this book though because with the ending that I had now I don't have to wait to read what happens next and how the story ends. I will be starting The Mirror King today and I will share thoughts once I finish.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
This was an excellent book. The characters are well developed
By Kindle Customer
This was an excellent book. The characters are well developed, and the protagonist is a strong female role model, who is not dependent on her male love interest. I would highly recommend this book for young adults grades 6 and above. The language is rigorous without causing frustration. There is no adult graphic content.
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