Wicked saints

Title:

Wicked saints

Author:

Duncan, Emily A., author.

Personal Author:

Duncan, Emily A., author.

ISBN:

9781250195661

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

385 pages : map ; 25 cm

Abstract:

A girl who can speak to gods, a prince who must learn whom to trust, and a boy with a monstrous secret seek to assassinate the king and stop a centuries-long war.

Nadya, a girl who can speak to gods, must save her people without destroying herself. A prince in danger must decide who to trust. A boy with a monstrous secret waits in the wings. In a centuries-long war, their paths entwine in a shadowy world of spilled blood and mysterious saints. Together, they must assassinate the king and stop the war. But a forbidden romance threatens to tip the scales between dark and light. -- adapted from jacket

Subject Term:

Assassins -- Juvenile fiction.

Gods -- Juvenile fiction.

Princes -- Juvenile fiction.

War stories.

Assassins -- Fiction.

Genre:

Summary:

A girl who can speak to gods, a prince who must learn whom to trust, and a boy with a monstrous secret seek to assassinate the king and stop a centuries-long war.

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An instant New York Times bestseller!

A girl who can speak to gods must save her people without destroying herself.

A prince in danger must decide who to trust.

A boy with a monstrous secret waits in the wings.

Together, they must assassinate the king and stop the war.

In a centuries-long war where beauty and brutality meet, their three paths entwine in a shadowy world of spilled blood and mysterious saints, where a forbidden romance threatens to tip the scales between dark and light. Wicked Saints is the thrilling start to Emily A. Duncan's devastatingly Gothic Something Dark and Holy trilogy.

This edition uses deckle edges; the uneven paper edge is intentional.

Reviews (1)

Kirkus Review

Once it was sparkly vampires; now it's brooding bad boys, dark magic, and colliding kingdoms.Dual perspective narration cuts between Nadya, a Kalyazi cleric raised in a remote monastery who speaks with gods, and Serefin, Tranavian High Prince and blood mage from a rival kingdom first seen destroying the monastery and killing a boy. Nadya soon connects with Malachiasz, also the enemy but strangely attractive, and his two token brown companions, Rashid and Parijahan, all of whom are good with weapons and have their own revenge agenda (that never really comes to the fore; perhaps a later volume will tie up the many loose ends). Each teen has a goal: Nadya wants to bring the gods back to Tranavia; Serefin wants to get drunk (but maybe also stop his power-mad father); and magically altered Malachiasz wants to stop the war but may also have some other plans up his sleeve. Violencespells are cast by literal bloodshedand provocative questions (What are the gods? What is divinity? What rights does power confer?) swirl together, but the limited character development and mediocre writing diminish the high concept into paint-by-numbers YA fantasy. Other than the two mentioned above, almost all characters follow a white default.All the right elements are present without amounting to muchand yet, when something is so on-trend there will doubtless be fans. (Fantasy. 14-18) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.