Instagram || Twitter || Facebook || Amazon || PinterestĮver since I finished Holly Black's The Folk of the Air series, I've been dying to get my hands on other mature YA fantasy books that capture that same breathless atmosphere of sensuality, back-stabbing, and court intrigue. Part Sleeping Beauty, part Anastasia, with a thrilling political mystery, The Winter Duke is a spellbinding story about choosing what's right in the face of danger. And if Ekata is to survive, she must quickly decide how she will wield it. If Kylma Above is to survive, Ekata must seize her family's power.
Nothing has prepared Ekata for diplomacy, for war, for love.or for a crown she has never wanted. In the space of a single night, Ekata inherits the title of duke, her brother's warrior bride, and ever-encroaching challengers from without-and within-her own ministry. But just as escape is within reach, her parents and twelve siblings fall under a strange sleeping sickness. Not her books or science experiments, not her family's icy castle atop a frozen lake, not even the tantalizingly close Kylma Below, a mesmerizing underwater kingdom that provides her family with magic. When Ekata's brother is finally named heir, there will be nothing to keep her at home in Kylma Above with her murderous family.
There is also a prequel series by Jenny Nimmo that tells the story of the Red King - Secret Kingdom.An enchanted tale of intrigue where a duke's daughter is the only survivor of a magical curse. It’s best to read the Charlie Bone books in order, starting with book one Midnight for Charlie Bone. As a descendent of the ancient magician, the Red King, a destiny awaits Charlie that he never could have imagined.įans of the books have been clamouring for a Charlie Bone movie, but although rights have been acquired nothing is in development yet.
Despite its strict rules, Charlie quickly makes friends who also have gifts and together they use their powers to fight evil and solve the many mysteries within the school. He can’t hide his strange gift and when his Grandma Bone discovers it she ships him off to the sinister-seeming Bloor’s Academy for Magic. One day at home, staring at a picture of a couple with a baby and a cat, Charlie suddenly discovers he can hear the voices of the people in the picture. Also known as the Children of the Red King series, the books are ideal for fans of Harry Potter, Eva Ibbotson and Cornelia Funke’s Inkheart.Ĭharlie Bone is a boy with a special talent. The Charlie Bone books are gripping fantasy reads for children 9+ written by award-winning author Jenny Nimmo.
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