Fantasy

Scorpica

by G. R. MacallisterBook 1 of 3 in The Five Queendoms
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Description

Five hundred years of peace between queendoms shatters when girls inexplicably stop being born. As the Drought of Girls stretches across a generation, it sets off a cascade of political and personal consequences across all five queendoms of the known world, throwing long-standing alliances into disarray as each queendom begins to turn on each other - and new threats to each nation rise from within. Uniting the stories of women from across the queendoms, this propulsive, gripping epic fantasy follows a warrior queen who must rise from childbirth bed to fight for her life and her throne, a healer in hiding desperate to protect the secret of her daughter's explosive power, a queen whose desperation to retain control leads her to risk using the darkest magic, a near-immortal sorcerer demigod powerful enough to remake the world for her own ends - and the generation of lastborn girls, the ones born just before the Drought, who must bear the hopes and traditions of their nations if the queendoms are to survive.

What it’s like

ViolenceGraphic
CombatSkirmish-Heavy

Details

First published
February 22, 2022
Pages
464
Reading time
About 9 hours
Format
Novel
Audience
Adult
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Language
English
ISBN
9781982167899
Series
The Five Queendoms, Book 1

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