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The blood trials / N.E. Davenport.
Van Pelt Library PS3604.A94264 B56 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davenport, N. E., author.
- Series:
- Davenport, N. E. Blood gift duology ; bk. 1.
- Book one of The blood gift duology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teenage girls--Fiction.
- Teenage girls.
- Multiracial people--Fiction.
- Multiracial people.
- Survival--Fiction.
- Survival.
- Ability--Fiction.
- Ability.
- Magic--Fiction.
- Magic.
- Revenge--Fiction.
- Revenge.
- Genre:
- Science fiction.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 484 pages : map ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First Harper Voyager Paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2022.
- Summary:
- After her grandfather is assassinated, Ikenna, bent on revenge, pledges herself to the Praetorian Trials where she subjects herself to racism to hide the power that--if found out--would lead to her execution.
- "Blending fantasy and science fiction, N. E. Davenport's fast-paced, action-packed debut kicks off a duology of loyalty and rebellion, in which a young Black woman must survive deadly trials in a racist and misogynistic society to become an elite warrior. It's all about blood. The blood spilled between the Republic of Mareen and the armies of the Blood Emperor long ago. The blood gifts of Mareen's deadliest enemies. The blood that runs through the elite War Houses of Mareen, the rulers of the Tribunal dedicated to keeping the republic alive. The blood of the former Legatus, Verne Amari, murdered. For his granddaughter, Ikenna, the only thing steady in her life was the man who had saved Mareen. The man who had trained her in secret, not just in martial skills, but in harnessing the blood gift that coursed through her. " -- Publisher marketing.
- Blood was spilled between the Republic of Mareen and the armies of the Blood Emperor long ago. When the former Legatus, Verne Amari, is murdered, his granddaughter Ikenna knows two things: that only someone on the Tribunal could have ordered his death, and that only a Praetorian Guard could have carried out that order. As she faces the racism directed against her half-Khanaian heritage and the misogyny of a society that cherishes progeny over prodigy, Ikenna needs to find out who murdered her grandfather... and then she needs to kill them - adapted from jacket.
- ISBN:
- 9780063058491
- 0063058499
- OCLC:
- 1287034087
- Publisher Number:
- 99991412074
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