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The Last Bloodcarver

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Author

Vanessa Le

Release Date

March 19, 2024

Publisher

Roaring Books

Genre

YA – Fantasy

Categories , Tag Product ID: 19417

Description

Two girls reluctantly bound by fate must weather a dangerous courtship as a prophesied war grows ever closer in Jasmine Skye’s high-stakes, queernormative dark fantasy debut, Daughter of the Bone Forest.

Rosy is a bone familiar, gifted with the power to shift into animals marked with exposed bone. She spends most of her days in the magical Bone Forest, caring for her feral grandmother and hiding her powers to avoid conscription by the Witch King’s army. Until the day that Princess Shaw, a witch known as Death’s Heir, visits the Forest. When Rosy saves Shaw’s life, the princess offers her the chance to attend the prestigious school, Witch Hall, as payment. Though Rosy is wary of Shaw’s intentions, she cannot pass up the opportunity to find the cure for her grandmother’s affliction.

But at Witch Hall, Rosy finds herself embroiled in political games she doesn’t understand. Shaw wants Rosy for her entourage, a partner to help lead the coming war. All Rosy wants is to stay out of trouble until she can graduate and save her grandmother, but she can’t deny her attraction to Shaw or the comfort Shaw’s magic gives her. Will Rosy give in to her destiny, or will the Bone Forest call her home once and for all?

About the Author

Photograph of author Vanessa Le

Vanessa Le is a Vietnamese American author from the Pacific Northwest. She recently graduated from Brown University with a concentration in Health and Human Biology. She loves reading and writing stories about the Asian diasporic experience and high-concept magic systems. You can also find her gaming too much, drawing too little, or appeasing her two shiba inus.

​Vanessa is represented by Ramona Pina at BookEnds Literary Agency.

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