On the side and in secret, Jessamy has been training to compete in the multi-level athletic course of the Fives and she is really good at it. Still, for the most part, theirs is a loving family on the way to the top as the father climbs up the ladder within the army and under the patronage of a powerful man. The mixed race daughter of an upper class Patron and his Commoner partner, Jessamy’s family has lived under arbitrary rules that consistently oppress in a myriad of ways. Jessamy is a young woman whose life is precariously built on the whims of a society on the cusp of breakdown and change. How did we get this book: ARCs from the publisher Stand alone or series: First in a new trilogy
When a scheming lord tears Jes’s family apart, she’ll have to test Kal’s loyalty and risk the vengeance of a powerful clan to save her mother and sisters from certain death. Then Jes meets Kalliarkos, and an unlikely friendship between a girl of mixed race and a Patron boy causes heads to turn.
But at night she can be whomever she wants when she sneaks out to train for The Fives, an intricate, multi-level athletic competition that offers a chance for glory to the kingdom’s best competitors. Jessamy’s life is a balance between acting like an upper class Patron and dreaming of the freedom of the Commoners.
In this imaginative escape into an enthralling new world, World Fantasy Award finalist Kate Elliott begins a new trilogy with her debut young adult novel, weaving an epic story of a girl struggling to do what she loves in a society suffocated by rules of class and privilege. In which we take a look at the first YA novel by Kate Elliott
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