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Sixteen-year old Anna Arden was once just the magically barren girl from an elite Luminate family. Now she has broken the Binding—and Praetheria, the creatures held captive by the spell, wreak havoc across Europe. Lower-class citizens have access to magic for the first time, while other Luminates lose theirs forever. Austria and Hungary are at odds once more.
Anna Arden did not know breaking the Binding would break the world.
Anna thought the Praetheria were on her side, content and grateful to be free from the Binding. She thought her cousin Matyas's blood sacrifice to the disarm the spell would bring peace, equality, justice. She thought her future looked like a society that would let her love a Romani boy, Gabor.
But with the Monarchy breathing down her neck and the Praetheria intimidating her at every turn, it seems the conspiracies have only just begun.
As threat of war sweeps the region, Anna quickly discovers she can't solve everything on her own. Now there's only one other person who might be able to save the country before war breaks out. The one person Anna was sure she'd never see again. A bandit. A fellow outlaw. A man known as the King of Crows. Matyas.
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- ISBN: 9781101936092
- File size: 3552 KB
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- ISBN: 9781101936092
- File size: 4836 KB
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- English
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Levels
- ATOS Level: 5.9
- Lexile® Measure: 800
- Interest Level: 9-12(UG)
- Text Difficulty: 3-4
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December 1, 2017
Gr 8 Up-This sequel continues the saga of Anna Arden and the magical creatures she helped release from bondage in Blood Rose Rebellion. Now in hiding in Vienna with her sister Catherine, Anna attempts to settle into life as a courtier. She attends parties, takes walks on the promenade, and even catches the eye of Archduke Franz Joseph. But she can't break away from her past and her desire to free the magical Praetheria, or from her feelings for Gabor. She also can't run from the crime she committed in the name of freedom-the murder of her friend Matyas. She must decide if she will continue to hide or take a stand in front of the Austrian Congress and become her true self-a chimera, or "two-souled." This is a unique blend of fantasy and historical fiction, and fans of both will appreciate the intertwining genres. The narrative utilizes alternating points of view, giving readers a unique perspective on the lives of both main characters (Anna and Matyas). VERDICT A magical tour of mid-19th-century Europe that will leave teens waiting anxiously for the next installment; recommended for fans of alternative history and fantasy.-Corey Hall, Manheim Central Middle School, PA
Copyright 2017 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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January 15, 2018
Two surpassingly magical cousins are continually pushed into action during the European revolutions of the 19th century. How could Anna have naively thought that she would destroy classism, racism, and imperialism simply because she had destroyed the magical Binding that reserved spellcasting for the nobility and imprisoned the magical praetherians? Alternating sections reveal the rising chaos that resulted from her actions in Blood Rose Rebellion (2017) from dual perspectives. Anna feels trapped in Vienna both by class and gender expectations and by the demands of the freed magical creatures. Matyas, Anna's cousin who was killed when Anna destroyed the Binding, has been reborn to a responsibility he desperately seeks to avoid. Both are appalled by the treatment of praetherians, who, newly freed, are being enslaved, murdered, and forced to wear identifying marks. Anna vows to speak up on their behalf, but as a young woman, her word carries little weight. Matyas chooses banditry over leadership, but his kindness nevertheless brings more and more praetherians to join his gang. Both protagonists have revolutionary urgings, although their anti-imperialistic nationalism seems awfully selective, an unreconciled contradiction that could possibly be resolved in Book 3. Anna and Matyas, both white, are exceptionally magical, with phenomenal cosmic powers that everyone wants to exploit, from the ancient Hungarian gods to the Hapsburg Archduchess Sophie. This all boosts expectations of series readers for a conclusion they may worry it cannot meet.A sequel that serviceably does its middle-volume job; it won't attract new readers but should please fans of Book 1. (author's note, character guide, glossary) (Fantasy. 13-15)COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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January 1, 2019
After Anna (Blood Rose Rebellion) broke the Binding spell, supernatural creatures roam free in Europe. Meanwhile, Anna is still unsure of her chimera nature as well as the path she desires in a frustratingly unjust world. Bouncing from opulent Hapsburg-ruled Vienna to the bandit-controlled Hungarian backroads to the supernatural realm, this historical fantasy integrates beings from Eastern European and Slavic lore into its nineteenth-century setting. Author's note appended. Bib., glos.(Copyright 2019 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)
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