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Average rating3.7
Four years after Bitterblue left off, a new land has been discovered to the east: Torla; and the closest nation to Monsea is Winterkeep. Winterkeep is a land of miracles, a democratic republic run by people who like each other, where people speak to telepathic sea creatures, adopt telepathic foxes as pets, and fly across the sky in ships attached to balloons.
But when Bitterblue’s envoys to Winterkeep drown under suspicious circumstances, she and Giddon and her half sister, Hava, set off to discover the truth–putting both Bitterblue’s life and Giddon’s heart to the test when Bitterbue is kidnapped. Giddon believes she has drowned, leaving him and Hava to solve the mystery of what’s wrong in Winterkeep.
Lovisa Cavenda is the teenage daughter of a powerful Scholar and Industrialist (the opposing governing parties) with a fire inside her that is always hungry, always just nearly about to make something happen. She is the key to everything, but only if she can figure out what’s going on before anyone else, and only if she’s willing to transcend the person she’s been all her life.
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**Books in the Graceling Realm series**
1. [Graceling][1]
2. [Fire][2]
3. [Bitterblue][3]
4. Winterkeep
[1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15702282W
[2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL11728428W
[3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16262971W
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4 primary booksGraceling Realm is a 4-book series with 4 primary works first released in 2008 with contributions by Kristin Cashore.
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An excellence balance between adorable and heartbreaking, well done! I like Bitterblue MUCH better in this than I did in her own book where it was just political intrigue and sneaking around.
Writing wise, Lovisa and Bitterblue are my favorite dynamic in ever, because Bitterblue is like, Lovisa several years in the future, once she's had a chance to heal.
This was such an unserious book .... I loved Giddon's continued character development and I did find myself liking him and Bitterblue together despite the truly alarming age gap but this was a silly book with a silly plot and very oversimplified political dynamics. It felt the most YA. I'm actually not sure how we went from Graceling and Fire to this, and it generally didn't feel like part of the series in any meaningful way. It was fun and I had a great time reading it but it just doesn't live up to its predecessors.