Not the society she’s known all her life, for discontent with the Luminate is sweeping the land. Not the people around her, from her aloof cousin Noémi to the fierce and handsome Romani Gábor. In Hungary, Anna discovers that nothing is quite as it seems. But her fate takes another course when, after inadvertently breaking her sister’s debutante spell-an important chance for a highborn young woman to show her prowess with magic-Anna finds herself exiled to her family’s once powerful but now crumbling native Hungary. Though her family is part of the Luminate, powerful users of magic, she is Barren, unable to perform the simplest spells. Sixteen-year-old Anna Arden is barred from society by a defect of blood. In a world where social prestige derives from a trifecta of blood, money, and magic, one girl has the ability to break the spell that holds the social order in place. The thrilling first book in a YA fantasy trilogy for fans of Red Queen. " richly imagined 19th-century historical fantasy." -EW, A.
And to walk right into the lion's den."A magical tale unlike anything you've read before." -Bustle Eventually, there's only one way to save her: to split up. Magic that relies on illusion and misdirection. Gábor has elected to stay behind, to fight in the Hungarian army's resistance, while Anna and Mátyás search for their beloved Noémi-a mission doomed from the start, cloaked in praetherian magic. And they are holding Noémi hostage-using her life to manipulate Anna and Mátyás, like marionettes on a string.
But it's never that simple, is it? The praetheria, the creatures once held captive by the spell, are now waging war against the Austro-Hungarian empire. And the only hope of mending it is Anna and Mátyás, working together. It seems, yet again, that breaking the Binding has shattered the world. "Prepare to be spellbound" in this fast-paced and action-packed final installment of the Blood Rose Rebellion trilogy, perfect for fans of Six of Crows.The Binding is broken.
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