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Here's my choice for this week!
The Triumphant
(The Valiant, Book 3)
Lesley Livingston
Hardcover, 384 pages
Razorbill
February 12, 2019
Feminist Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mythology,Romance,
Young Adult Fiction
The final book in the
Valiant series takes Fallon and her warrior sisters on an epic journey
from the corrupt Roman Republic to the wonder of the ancient world:
Alexandria, Egypt.
In the wake of their victorious fight to win back the Ludus Achillea, Fallon and her gladiatrix sisters have become the toast of the Republic. However, as a consequence of his actions during the Ludus uprising, Fallon's love, Cai, has been stripped of his Decurion rank and cast down to serve as one of Caesar's gladiators.
Amid fighting for Cai's freedom, Fallon soon learns that Caesar's enemies are plotting against him and planning to get revenge on his fearsome gladiatrices. When Caesar is murdered by these conspirators, Fallon and the girls lose any sort of protection they once had. Fallon also realizes that the foreign queen Cleopatra is now in grave danger.
Fallon rallies her war band and Cai's friends to get Cleopatra out of the city, and the group heads to the safety of Cleo's homeland, Alexandria, Egypt. Once there, the gladiatrices are promised a place of honor in the queen's elite guard, but is that what any of them really want?
In the wake of their victorious fight to win back the Ludus Achillea, Fallon and her gladiatrix sisters have become the toast of the Republic. However, as a consequence of his actions during the Ludus uprising, Fallon's love, Cai, has been stripped of his Decurion rank and cast down to serve as one of Caesar's gladiators.
Amid fighting for Cai's freedom, Fallon soon learns that Caesar's enemies are plotting against him and planning to get revenge on his fearsome gladiatrices. When Caesar is murdered by these conspirators, Fallon and the girls lose any sort of protection they once had. Fallon also realizes that the foreign queen Cleopatra is now in grave danger.
Fallon rallies her war band and Cai's friends to get Cleopatra out of the city, and the group heads to the safety of Cleo's homeland, Alexandria, Egypt. Once there, the gladiatrices are promised a place of honor in the queen's elite guard, but is that what any of them really want?
Why I can't wait for this one!
Oh, yes, peeps, here I am again with the very same situation.....I can't wait for the last book in a trilogy, when I haven't read the first two.... LOL. But the thing is, I am a TSUNDOKU practitioner! Say WHAT?! And what is this "tsundoku"? Ah, so, grasshopper! It is the venerable Japanese art of acquiring books and books and books AND BOOKS, and letting them pile up in one's digs, without reading them. So that's why I can't help but WANT books that look SO tempting, when I STILL haven't read the ones I already have.....
But HEY!!!!! Female gladiators?! How the HECK could I pass these up?!
Check out these tsundoku links!
Wikipedia
BBC News
Open Culture Blog
Lesley Livingston is a writer living in Toronto, Canada. She is the author of twelve books to date. Her first novel, Wondrous Strange, was winner of the CLA Young Adult Book of the Year 2010, a White Pine Honour Book, shortlisted for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Speculative Fiction, and in 2015 was named one of CBC’s “100 YA Books That Make You Proud To Be Canadian”. Darklight, the second book in this series, was a finalist for the Indigo Teen Read Awards. The concluding volume in the trilogy, Tempestuous, was a finalist for the Monica Hughes Award. These books have sold to more than ten countries to date, and Wondrous Strange has been optioned for film/TV by Shaftesbury Films.
In addition to her books for teen readers, Lesley is also co-author of a Middle Grade series with Jonathan Llyr called The Wiggins Weird. The first book, How to Curse in Hieroglyphics, was shortlisted for the CLA Book of the Year for Children Award and was longlisted for the Canadian Booksellers Association’s Young Readers Book of the Year award. It was also chosen as one of the selections for the 2016 First Book Canada All-Star Reading Challenge.
Lesley’s newest novel, a YA historical epic, The Triumphant, which will be published in February 2019 by Penguin Razorbill (US) and HarperCollins (CAN), is the third in her bestselling trilogy, The Valiant, which tells the story of a 17-year-old girl’s journey from fierce Celtic princess to female gladiator and the darling of the Roman Empire.
But HEY!!!!! Female gladiators?! How the HECK could I pass these up?!
Check out these tsundoku links!
Wikipedia
BBC News
Open Culture Blog
The previous books in this series!
Click on the covers
for the Goodreads pages.
Lesley Livingston is a writer living in Toronto, Canada. She is the author of twelve books to date. Her first novel, Wondrous Strange, was winner of the CLA Young Adult Book of the Year 2010, a White Pine Honour Book, shortlisted for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Speculative Fiction, and in 2015 was named one of CBC’s “100 YA Books That Make You Proud To Be Canadian”. Darklight, the second book in this series, was a finalist for the Indigo Teen Read Awards. The concluding volume in the trilogy, Tempestuous, was a finalist for the Monica Hughes Award. These books have sold to more than ten countries to date, and Wondrous Strange has been optioned for film/TV by Shaftesbury Films.
In addition to her books for teen readers, Lesley is also co-author of a Middle Grade series with Jonathan Llyr called The Wiggins Weird. The first book, How to Curse in Hieroglyphics, was shortlisted for the CLA Book of the Year for Children Award and was longlisted for the Canadian Booksellers Association’s Young Readers Book of the Year award. It was also chosen as one of the selections for the 2016 First Book Canada All-Star Reading Challenge.
Lesley’s newest novel, a YA historical epic, The Triumphant, which will be published in February 2019 by Penguin Razorbill (US) and HarperCollins (CAN), is the third in her bestselling trilogy, The Valiant, which tells the story of a 17-year-old girl’s journey from fierce Celtic princess to female gladiator and the darling of the Roman Empire.
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choice this week?
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