After her victory over Master Grey, Emily wants nothing more than to relax and give herself time to recover from the duel. Her magic, pushed to the limits, is no longer reliable, forcing her to learn to control it from scratch. Every time she delays using her magic, she risks headaches…or worse. But she must return to Whitehall to complete her fourth-year exams and bid farewell to those of her friends who are not returning for fifth year. And then, she must return to Zangaria to play her role in Princess Alassa’s wedding to Jade. It seems, if nothing else, a brief diversion before she goes off on a tour of the Allied Lands.
But all is not well in Zangaria and the kingdom is fast approaching a major crisis. Junior aristocrats are demanding their rights and titles from the king, while King Randor himself is dangerously unstable and hiding a secret that could spark off a civil war…and the peasants are threatening to revolt. Emily herself is isolated, unsure how to balance her obligations to her closest friends with her belief in freedom, justice, and democracy. And, as Emily finds herself used as a political pawn by the different sides in the growing dispute and no longer sure who she can trust, she may find herself confronting a choice between doing the right thing, regardless of the cost…and losing everything she’s built over the past four years.
The day of Reckoning For many series, around book 8 marks a low point, the plot, the formula and the characters become stale, you get “more of the same”. Wedding Hells I am happy to report does not fall into this category.Â
Continues the great journey. Emily continues to bumble her way through life, with everyone around her either thinking she’s a monster of a saint, and debating whether to attempt to assassinate her or try to be her best friend. While the setup is getting a little clichéd since its variations on a theme for Nuttall, the plot basically goes like the previous novels: Emily is introduced to a situation she barely understands through the lens of the culture and kingdom shes a resident of, everyone assumes she intimately…
Interesting sequel Love the book–great addition to the series. One of the best things about the series is the intermixing of classic heroic fantasy (boy or girl leaves home develops into great hero/mage to fight evil sorcerers/dark ones) with down to earth political/economic changes in the country that becomes the heroine’s home–Zangaria–as the heroine has to balance her own belief system and political conflicts with being a high ranking noble in the local power structure–Baroness of Cockatrice. If the book…