Another Christmas gift book. The first in a trilogy I had heard was good.
I thoroughly enjoyed this opening and immediately started book 2, Invasion Of The Tearling.
As a babe Kelsea was marked, given a special jewel, and sent to live with guardians who were tasked with protecting her and raising her until she came of an age where she could take the throne left vacant by the death of her mother.
Her mother was not at all the kind of Queen Kelsea wants to be and from her first moments back in her keep she has set in motion a new world order. One that will likely bring destruction down on her kingdom at the hands of the Red Queen from the neighboring kingdom.
Action, adventure, intrigue, magic, it is all here.
I found myself liking Kelsea, she has a strong sense of right and wrong, she loves books, values learning, and isn't the typically written female lead who is usually so good looking that it becomes a liability, but instead she is slightly overweight and rather plain looking (her words).
(Finished December 31, 2016)
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