Amethyst in Ashes - Lillis, Kiersten

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Résumé :
fantastic worldbuilding and edge-of-your-seat action... - Goodreads review I couldn't put it down from the time I opened it. - Amazon Review A reluctant teenage Seer, an evil sorceress, and a quest for power that will change everything Fifteen-year-old Talullah Bridgestone dreams of escaping her town's suffocating protection spell and adventuring in the outside world-until soldiers from a neighboring kingdom break through the magic and kidnap her younger sisters while looking for...her. Now, Talullah must choose: continue ignoring the cloudy visions that have plagued her for the last eight years or swallow her reservations, learn to use her powers, and save her sisters from the sorceress Renevelda's sinister plans. The missing amethyst from her heirloom necklace will help clarify and control her visions. To find it, she must survive the dark forest rumored to steal souls, journey to a realm of the dead, and, maybe most difficult of all, face the ghosts of her past. Her enemy has a spy. Her allies have secrets. And her dream of getting out has just become her worst nightmare. If she fails to master the power she never wanted, the sorceress will rewrite history...and stain it with Talullah's sisters' blood....

Biographie:
Kiersten Lillis is the author of the Sezna Seer Series, a YA time-altering fantasy that interrogates the relationship between destiny and free will. She graduated from the University of Dayton with a BA in Electronic Media and French and spent many years building stories through audio and video while secretly coveting the written word and trying to bribe the muse. She loves sweet tea, libraries, and the Oxford comma. Originally from Indiana, she lives in Colorado with her family....

Sommaire:
fantastic worldbuilding and edge-of-your-seat action... - Goodreads review I couldn't put it down from the time I opened it. - Amazon Review A reluctant teenage Seer, an evil sorceress, and a quest for power that will change everything Fifteen-year-old Talullah Bridgestone dreams of escaping her town's suffocating protection spell and adventuring in the outside world-until soldiers from a neighboring kingdom break through the magic and kidnap her younger sisters while looking for...her. Now, Talullah must choose: continue ignoring the cloudy visions that have plagued her for the last eight years or swallow her reservations, learn to use her powers, and save her sisters from the sorceress Renevelda's sinister plans. The missing amethyst from her heirloom necklace will help clarify and control her visions. To find it, she must survive the dark forest rumored to steal souls, journey to a realm of the dead, and, maybe most difficult of all, face the ghosts of her past. Her enemy has a spy. Her allies have secrets. And her dream of getting out has just become her worst nightmare. If she fails to master the power she never wanted, the sorceress will rewrite history...and stain it with Talullah's sisters' blood....