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The Soul of Power
Callie Bates
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  • Published: 4 June 2019
  • ISBN: 9781984890283
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Adult
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00
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The Soul of Power

  • Callie Bates



One young woman learns the true nature of power—both her own and others’—in the riveting conclusion to The Waking Land Trilogy.

“Bates brilliantly concludes an impressive high fantasy trilogy with this tale of scheming and magic.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Sophy Dunbarron—the illegitimate daughter of a king who never was—has always felt like an impostor. Separated from her birth mother, raised by parents mourning the loss of their true daughter, and unacknowledged by her father, Sophy desires only a place and a family to call her own. But fate has other ideas. Caught up in Elanna Valtai’s revolution, Sophy has become the reigning monarch of a once-divided country—a role she has been groomed her whole life to fill.

But as she quickly discovers, wearing a crown is quite a different thing from keeping a crown. With an influx of magic-bearing refugees pouring across the border, resources already thinned by war are stretched to the breaking point. Half the nobility in her court want her deposed, and the other half question her every decision. And every third person seems to be spontaneously manifesting magical powers.

When Elanna is captured and taken to Paladis, Sophy’s last ally seems to have vanished. Now it is up to her alone to navigate a political maze that becomes more complex and thorny by the day. And worse, Sophy is hiding a huge secret—one that could destroy her tenuous hold on the crown forever.
 
“Sophy is truly a feminist hero: she embraces equality and justice for all—a theme running throughout the novel—while challenging societal norms.”—Booklist
 
Don’t miss any of Callie Bates’s magical Waking Land trilogy:
THE WAKING LAND • THE MEMORY OF FIRE • THE SOUL OF POWER

  • Published: 4 June 2019
  • ISBN: 9781984890283
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Adult
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00
Categories:

Praise for The Soul of Power

Praise for Callie Bates:

  • "A heartbreaking, enchanting, edge-of-the-seat read that held me captive from start to finish!" - Tamora Pierce, on The Waking Land

  • "Callie Bates...is clearly a writer of real talent." - Terry Brooks, on The Waking Land

  • "This superior novel blends passionate romance and sweeping magic...Bates has a delicate, precise touch with human and superhuman relationships." - Publishers Weekly, on The Waking Land

  • "Bates deftly builds Elanna's character, transforming her from an overly naïve pawn into a confident woman growing into her powers as she allows herself to explore love...Ideal for fans of romantic fantasy such as Naomi Novik's Uprooted." - Library Journal, on The Waking Land

  • "Gripping...will leave readers hungry for the conclusion." - Publishers Weekly (Starred Review), on The Memory of Fire

  • "A simmering tale of magic that builds to a raging inferno, and hits like a cross between Brandon Sanderson and Pierce Brown." - Scott Sigler, author of Alive, on The Waking Land

  • "Abducted when she was five, Elanna is raised to despise her heritage. But when she's falsely charged with murder and must run for her life, Elanna is forced to resort to her innate magical ability to save herself and the other people she's come to care for. The Waking Land is all about rising to challenges, and it succeeds wonderfully." --Charlaine Harris, on The Waking Land
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