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The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen. 342 p. The Ascendance series, #1. Scholastic Press/ Scholastic Inc., April, 2012. (Own)
Happy Thursday! I'm hanging there! April break is nearly here! Boy do I need this break. I am looking forward to being productive in the garden and in decluttering the house some more. It'll be another hard "first" holiday to get through, but two sons will be visiting
#tbt features The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen. This first-person narrative hits the ground running and will leave you guessing and gasping. Fifteen-year-old Sage is a scheming orphan at Mrs. Turbeldy's Orphanage for Disadvantaged Boys in the imaginary kingdom of Carthya. He's constantly plotting ways to subvert the rules and is intrigued when the king's regent, Conner Bevin arrives. Conner assumes he will now have to serve Bevin, but is surprised to find that Bevin has chosen three other boys as well. They learn that they will be groomed and educated enough over the next two weeks for one of them to be presented at court as the missing prince. No one in the kingdom knows that the king and queen have died. Their son, Prince Jaron ran away a few years earlier and is presumed dead-only no body was ever found. Bevin plans on ruling the kingdom through his puppet prince and plans on killing the boys who aren't chosen.
The False Prince is book one of what was The Ascendance Trilogy, but with the recent addition of a fourth book, is now a quartet. If you love a book with action, intrigue, sword-fighting and a sassy narrator, you will love this series. The book was named to quite a few State Book Awards as well as YALSA's Best Books List.
The False Prince is book one of what was The Ascendance Trilogy, but with the recent addition of a fourth book, is now a quartet. If you love a book with action, intrigue, sword-fighting and a sassy narrator, you will love this series. The book was named to quite a few State Book Awards as well as YALSA's Best Books List.
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