Sunday, December 25, 2011

The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson

I see what all the fuss is about for this Morris contender.  Sure, it's another YA fantasy, but it's unique, exciting, and a darn good book for a first-time author.

Elisa is a princess who is married off to a stranger on her sixteenth birthday. She's fat, useless, but smart. When she's kidnapped be strange desert people, she must learn how to survive and to trust her kidnappers. They need her help because she is a bearer of the godstone.  In her naval.  (I have to admit that this is the part that makes me giggle--especially the spinning godstones around her belly at the end...) Elisa fulfills the prophecy and becomes a great leader, although she suffers along the way.

Recommended for all fantasy readers.

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