He’s a gorgeous, confident, intelligent amputee who always loses video games because he tries to save everyone. Sparks fly when Hazel Grace Lancaster spies Augustus “Gus” Waters checking her out across the room in a group-therapy session for teens living with cancer. She’s fighting the brown fluid in her lungs caused by tumors.
He’s in remission from the osteosarcoma that took one of his legs. High stakes, epic scope, intense action, and sweeping mythologies. The ending leaves neither storyline resolved. The rigid, cliffhanger-heavy chapter structure is supported by breakneck pacing and constant action. Eliana, meanwhile, is a deadly bounty hunter-serving an evil empire in order to protect her own family-who gets mixed up with rebels when her mother is abducted.
While readers start off knowing her story’s end, a steamy romance and devious twists along the way pack surprises. Following a childhood tragedy, Rielle hid her staggering ability to control all seven elements until a threat against her beloved Audric caused her to reveal her gifts, prompting the Magisterial Council to impose seven trials to determine whether she was the Sun Queen or Blood Queen spoken of in prophecy. Later chapters alternate between telling Rielle’s story and flashing forward 1,020 years to focus on olive-skinned Eliana. To keep the infant safe from the angels’ leader, light-skinned Corien, Rielle desperately charges a child with magical abilities to use his gifts to flee with and protect her-with mixed success. She gives birth to their baby while a war between angels and humans rages. In a prologue, readers learn that pale-skinned Queen Rielle has killed her husband, the biracial Audric.
Two girls separated by a thousand years are connected by a prophecy.
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