Title: Castles in Their Bones
Series: Castles in Their Bones #1
Author’s Name: Laura Sebastian
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Genre: YA Fantasy
Page Count: 528 Pages
ISBN: 978-0593118160
Author or Book Website: Laura Sebastian (laurasebastianwrites.com)
Link to Amazon purchase page: Castles in Their Bones: Sebastian, Laura: Books: Amazon.com
Link to Goodreads: Castles in Their Bones by Laura Sebastian | Goodreads
Release Date: N/A
How I Got the Book: Review Copy
Summary of the Book:
A spellbinding story of three princesses and the destiny they were born for: seduction, conquest, and the crown. Immerse yourself in the first book in a new fantasy trilogy from the author of the New York Times bestselling Ash Princess series.
Empress Margaraux has had plans for her daughters since the day they were born. Princesses Sophronia, Daphne, and Beatriz will be queens. And now, age sixteen, they each must leave their homeland and marry their princes.
Beautiful, smart, and demure, the triplets appear to be the perfect brides—because Margaraux knows there is one common truth: everyone underestimates a girl. Which is a grave mistake. Sophronia, Daphne, and Beatriz are no innocents. They have been trained since birth in the arts of deception, seduction, and violence with a singular goal—to bring down monarchies— and their marriages are merely the first stage of their mother’s grand vision: to one day reign over the entire continent of Vesteria.
The princesses have spent their lives preparing, and now they are ready, each with her own secret skill, and each with a single wish, pulled from the stars. Only, the stars have their own plans—and their mother hasn’t told them all of hers.
Life abroad is a test. Will their loyalties stay true? Or will they learn that they can’t trust anyone—not even each other?
My Personal Review: I received a copy of this book for a fair and honest review. I have to say that I enjoyed the triples in this book and the way they grew from what they begin as. Each of them was very different from the others and that made them special. The description of the world was good. I did not like that their mother was said to be the driving force behind them but is really only appears at the beginning of the book and as well as in their heads as a voice. I am curious to see how the rest of the series plays out.
My Rating of the Book: 4 Stars
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