Six Wild Crowns
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2.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
A breathtaking novel of courtly intrigue, sapphic yearning, and the wives of Henry VIII as you've never seen them before.
★ "Combines the romantasy of Sarah J. Maas, the cutthroat political corruption of Game of Thrones, and the feminist/sapphic history and mythology revisionism of Madeline Miller’s Circe, set in a fantastically researched Tudor Court with all its machinations, à la Alison Weir." ―Library Journal (starred review)
As tradition has it, the king of Elben must marry six queens and magically bind each of them to one of the island's palaces or the kingdom will fall.
Clever, ambitious Boleyn is determined to be her beloved Henry's favorite queen. She relishes the games at court and the political rivalries with his other wives. Seymour is the opposite―originally sent to Boleyn's court as a reluctant spy and assassin, she ends up catching Henry's eye and is forced into a loveless marriage with the king.
But when the two queens become the unlikeliest of things―friends and allies―the balance of power begins to shift. Together, they uncover a dark and deadly truth at the heart of the island's magic. Boleyn and Seymour's only hope of survival rests on uniting all six of the rival queens―but Henry will never let that happen.
"A luscious and luminous read" ―Tasha Suri, author of The Jasmine Throne
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This masterful fantasy of Tudor England, the adult debut from YA author Race (Midnight's Twins), offers the wronged wives of King Henry VIII a chance to coexist. The bordweal—a magical force field surrounding the island kingdom of Elben—only holds when there is a queen stationed in each of Elben's six castles. When callous Henry marries bold, brave, and clever Boleyn, she hopes that their marriage will be different from his others because of what she sees as their genuine love connection. After the wedding and coronation, determined to prove her worth, Boleyn sets out to strengthen the bordweal. Meanwhile Queen Aragon, who views Boleyn as a rival, gives Boleyn one of her lady's maids, Seymour, as a wedding present, secretly instructing Seymour to assassinate Boleyn. Unable to go through with it, Seymour falls into Boleyn's confidence instead. As sexual tension simmers between Seymour and Boleyn, they unravel the secrets of the king's magic and come to question everything they knew about their place in his kingdom. Race skillfully weaves real history and wholly original worldbuilding into an enthralling fantasy replete with magical power plays, political intrigue, and some dragons for good measure. Fans of feminist high fantasy such as The Priory of the Orange Tree won't want to miss this.
