I loved Rielle and Eliana and all of the characters, and it felt like some personal failing that I couldn't write their story well enough for people to want it.

But it was really hard because I loved these books so much. And I was lucky to get other books published while I was working on this one. So I had to put it aside and work on other things. I sent queries out to upwards of 60 or 70 agents and got mostly rejections. It took me a few years to write a draft I thought was worthy of taking to agents, but nobody wanted it. I came up with the idea for Furyborn in 2004, right after I graduated from high school. Not entirely accurate, but I love the villain origin story, the story of the supposed chosen one falling from grace.Ĭ: I did not, a lot of the time. My friend calls this trilogy the Anakin Skywalker origin story we all deserve. It's Avatar: The Last Airbender meets His Dark Materials meets Game of Thrones, and a little bit of Star Wars too. They're trying to figure out as well, am I the good queen or am I the bad queen? What does good queen and bad queen even mean and who gets to decide that? They're trying to figure out how to navigate this world with everyone around them telling them how to use their power and what their voices should be like. So as these girls are trying to figure out if they are, in fact, the subject of this prophecy and what to do with this power that's been given to them.

One with the power to destroy it.' Their arrival will mean that the angels are coming back to take their revenge upon humanity. Each of these girls - Rielle and Eliana - are trying to determine whether they are subjects of the prophecy that says 'Two queens will rise. This is an epic fantasy series for young adults about a centuries long war between humans and angels and the two young women who are fighting at the heart of this war, separated by a thousand years. As Rielle and Eliana fight in a cosmic war that spans millennia, their stories intersect, and the shocking connections between them ultimately determine the fate of their world-and of each other.C: I think for that I would have to say. To find her, Eliana joins a rebel captain and discovers that the evil at the empire's heart is more terrible than she ever imagined. A bounty hunter for the Undying Empire, Eliana believes herself untouchable-until her mother vanishes. One thousand years later, the legend of Queen Rielle is a fairy tale to Eliana Ferracora.

If she fails, she will be executed? unless the trials kill her first. To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven elemental magic trials. When assassins ambush her best friend, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing herself as one of a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light, and a queen of blood. The stunningly original, must-read fantasy of 2018 follows two fiercely independent young women, centuries apart, who hold the power to save their world? or doom it.

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