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Wildbound

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by Elayne Audrey Becker
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Wildbound is the thrilling finale to Elayne Audrey Becker's epic fantasy saga of forest magic and a kingdom on the brink of war.
With the assassination of Telyan's king, the time for peace has passed.
Determined to make up for his failure to procure the stardust, Helos finds work as a healer at Fendolyn's Keep, the historic garrison to which Telyan's exiled royals—and half its civilians—have fled. Racing against the Fallow Throes' ticking clock, he endeavors to repair his relationship with Prince Finley and dreams of his claim to a faraway throne, as the base around him prepares for war.
Half a continent away, his sister Rora is doing everything she can to reawaken the land and end Eradain's slaughter of magical beings. Still reeling from the revelation that Eradain's violent monarch is her half-brother, she journeys to the kingdom determined to infiltrate his court in disguise—and finds the seeds of rebellion are already stirring.
With a magical illness running rampant and the continent arming for battle, the three realms' long-feared destruction seems inevitable. But the two shifters they believed would bring about Alemara's ruin may in fact hold the key to its survival.
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  • Creators

  • Series

    Forestborn

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    August 30, 2022

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

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      • ISBN: 9781250752239

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      • ISBN: 9781250752239
      • File size: 5834 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      June 1, 2022
      Romance encounters war's grim realities in this follow-up to 2021's Forestborn. They survived the magical Vale, but Prince Weslyn of Telyan and shape-shifting siblings Helos and Rora failed in their quest for a cure for the fatal Fallow Throes. Now the three and the ailing Prince Finley, Weslyn's brother, plunge into a war started by King Jol of Eradain, a genocidal but popular leader determined to eradicate magic--from people, plants, animals, and the land itself--to avert the ominous Prediction and prevent another land-rending Rupturing. He's also Helos and Rora's half brother. War soon separates the romantic pairs--Helos and Fin, Rora and Wes--as previously happy-go-lucky Helos serves as a battle medic, academic Wes serves as a soldier for newly crowned Queen Violet, and Rora infiltrates Eradain to restore magic, raze the prison, and confront Jol. In this somewhat preindustrial, vaguely Northern Hemisphere setting, magic users are shunned or imprisoned, purged or forced underground (literally). Despite their service to the crown and royal connections, Helos and Rora fear persecution and prejudice if they reveal their ability to shift into three kinds of animal and other people; their powers offer endless escapes and undercover opportunities but also earn distrust. Becker includes a lot of issues--abandonment, discrimination, PTSD--that would have benefited from deeper development but shines at scenic descriptions. The Telyan royals read as White, while Helos and Rora have olive skin; secondary characters are diverse in skin tone. Fans of the first volume may appreciate this duology closer. (Fantasy. 14-18)

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