A Broken Queen

by Sarah Kozloff

Overview

Sarah Kozloff, author of Queen of Raiders, continues her breathtaking and cinematic epic fantasy series The Nine Realms with book three, A Broken Queen, and all four books will be published within a month of each other, so you can binge your favorite new fantasy series.

Time can heal all wounds, but not all wounds are visible.

Barely surviving her ordeal in Oromondo and scarred by its Fire Spirit, Cerulia is taken to a recovery house in Wyeland to heal from the trauma. In a ward with others who are all bound to serve each other, she discovers that not all scars are visible, and dying can be done with grace and acceptance.

While she would like to stay in this place of healing, will she ever be able to leave the peace she has found to re-take the throne?

The Nine Realms Series
#1 A Queen in Hiding
#2 The Queen of Raiders
#3 A Broken Queen
#4 The Cerulean Queen

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250168665
Publisher:	Tor Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/24/2020
Series:	The Nine Realms , #3
Pages:	448
Sales rank:	119,609
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

SARAH KOZLOFF holds an endowed chair as a professor of film history at Vassar College. She worked in the film industry in both television and film before becoming a professor. Kozloff is the author of A Queen in Hiding and The Queen of Raiders.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for the Nine Realms quartet

“This author has turned epic fantasy into a binge reading experience that's worth our time.”—Fantasy Faction

“These books are better than Game of Thrones . . . becauase they are complete, and they are feminist as f***.” Greta Johnsen, host of Nerdette podcast

Praise for A Broken Queen

“Well constructed and engrossing.”—Kirkus

Praise for A Queen in Hiding

“This is a solid beginning to an ambitious saga of magic, intrigue, and heroism.”—Booklist

“Kozloff sets a solid stage with glimpses into other characters and nations while keeping the book together with a clear, propulsive plot. A new series starts off with a bang.”—Kirkus

“This series opener is literary, ambitious, and epic in scope.”—Publishers Weekly

“A deft and exciting beginning to what I am sure will be a really gorgeous saga of a girl coming to terms with her destiny.”—Melanie Rawn, author of the Exiles trilogy

“Crisp, action-packed setup that makes you impatient for more.”—Bookbub

“A deft and exciting beginning to what I am sure will be a really gorgeous saga of a girl coming to terms with her destiny.”—Melanie Rawn, author of the Exiles trilogy

“A breathtaking start to a new fantasy series that abounds in magic, backstabbing, and war. This is your new epic fantasy fix, right here.”—Beth Cato, author of Breath of Earth

“Sweeping in scope and unabashedly epic—Kozloff has written an instant classic, here. I can't wait for the next one.”—Auston Habershaw, author of Iron and Blood

From the Publisher

2020-01-13
Cerúlia recovers from her wounds and decides it's finally time to take back her throne in Kozloff's (The Queen of Raiders, 2020, etc.) penultimate Nine Realms novel.

Badly burned and laid up in a Healing Center, Cerúlia is losing faith in herself. She misses the various friends she's made along her journey, misses her home, and resents her limitations as she heals from injuries sustained in the previous novel. In the past, her magical "Talent" for talking to animals has helped her make friends with local creatures, but she's worried that something has happened to her ability and fears using it. As she slowly recuperates and learns from the fellow residents in the healing center, Cerúlia comes to understand that she must face her responsibility to her people and find a way to become the Queen of Weirandale. To that end, she returns home to her nation's capital, Cascada, only to discover that her long-lost foster sister, Percia, is about to marry the kindly son of the maniacal and power-hungry Regent Matwyck, the very person keeping Cerúlia from her throne. Reunited with her beloved foster family, Cerúlia decides it is time to stop hiding under aliases and disguises. But with no army to support her, how is she supposed to save herself from Matwyck's clutches? And now that she's seen more of the world and understands the lives of regular people, does she even believe in the idea of monarchy at all? Kozloff finally brings the action back to Weirandale in a compelling setup to the last novel in her series. Like Book 2, this one struggles a bit with standing on its own, but Kozloff uses these pages to make Cerúlia a more complex and compelling character. Threads following other characters from other nations are easy to follow and add dimension to the world, but as of now they still feel a bit too detached from the main plotline.

Imperfect, but well constructed and engrossing nonetheless.

Kirkus Reviews