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series14 books2015
Fantasy and dystopia, dark and tense in tone, about rebellion and revolution and class conflict, set in secondary world.
“Victoria Aveyard's debut novel opens a four-book main sequence - Red Queen, Glass Sword, King's Cage, War Storm - plus the interstitial novella Cruel Crown and the epilogue novella Broken Throne.”
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Fantasy, set in secondary world.
“Saints are canonized here the way soldiers are buried elsewhere — quietly, and too often.”
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Lone CitySeries
series3 books2014
Science fiction.
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