Kristin Cashore

Eighteen-year-old Bitterblue, queen of Monsea, realizes her heavy responsibility and the futility of relying on advisors who surround her with lies as she tries to help her people to heal from the thirty-five-year spell cast by her father, a violent psychopath with mind-altering abilities.

"Queen Bitterblue of Monsea must head to the nation of Winterkeep after her envoys drown in suspicious circumstances, and somewhere there, Lovisa Cavenda waits and watches while tragedy with devastating political and personal ramification strikes"--

In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.

Ocho años después de que la conociéramos en Graceling, nos reencontramos con Gravilla, ahora convertida en la reina Bitterblue de Monsea. Bitterblue es una monarca misericordiosa, pero no puede librarse de la influencia nefasta que su padre tuvo en ella en la infancia. Leck poseía la habilidad de alterar los pensamientos de todo aquel que tuviera cerca y eso lo convirtió en un psicópata. Los consejeros de Bitterblue, que han llevado

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