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• Lost Crow Conspiracy ( young adult novel; sequel to Blood Rose Rebellion) Alfred A. Knopf (New York, NY), 2018

1. Lost crow conspiracy LCCN 2017014155 Type of material Book Personal name Eves, Rosalyn, author. Main title Lost crow conspiracy / Rosalyn Eves. Edition First Edition. Published/Produced New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2018] Projected pub date 1803 Description pages cm ISBN 9781101936078 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781101936108 (trade pbk.) 9781101936085 (library binding) Library of Congress Holdings Information not available.

• Blood Rose Rebellion - 2017 Knopf Books for Young Readers, New York

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  Rosalyn Eves grew up in the Rocky Mountains, dividing her time between reading books and bossing her siblings into performing her dramatic scripts. As an adult, the telling and reading of stories is still one of her favorite things to do. When she’s not reading or writing, she enjoys spending time with her chemistry professor husband and three children, watching British period pieces, or hiking through the splendid landscape of southern Utah, where she lives. She dislikes housework on principle.

• Rosalyn Eves - http://www.rosalyneves.com/about-the-author/

  About the Author
  11354583_10153361965410844_1430971138_oRosalyn Eves grew up in the Rocky Mountains, dividing her time between reading books and bossing her siblings into performing her dramatic scripts. As an adult, the telling and reading of stories is still one of her favorite things to do. When she’s not reading or writing, she enjoys spending time with her chemistry professor husband and three children, watching British period pieces, or hiking through the splendid landscape of southern Utah, where she lives. She dislikes housework on principle.
  She has a PhD in English from Penn State, which means she also endeavors to inspire college students with a love for the English language. Sometimes it even works.
  Rosalyn is represented by Josh Adams of Adams literary.
  Her first novel, BLOOD ROSE REBELLION, first in a YA historical fantasy trilogy, debuts Spring 2017 from Knopf/Random House.
  Other places to find my writing:
  http://www.thinkingthroughourfingers.com/
  http://www.rosalyneves.blogspot.com/

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  Welcome to our weekly special feature post, Author Of The Week!!

  Each week we will be interviewing a different YA author and highlighting their upcoming release!

  We will also be hosting a giveaway of the book we are highlighting!!

  Introducing Rosalyn Eves, YABC's Author of the Week!!

  Rosalyn Eves grew up in the Rocky Mountains, dividing her time between reading books and bossing her siblings into performing her dramatic scripts. As an adult, the telling and reading of stories is still one of her favorite things to do. When she’s not reading or writing, she enjoys spending time with her chemistry professor husband and three children, watching British period pieces, or hiking through the splendid landscape of southern Utah, where she lives. She dislikes housework on principle.

  BLOOD ROSE REBELLION is her first novel.

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  Meet Blood Rose Rebellion!

  Sixteen-year-old Anna Arden is barred from society by a defect of blood. Though her family is part of the Luminate, powerful users of magic, she is Barren, unable to perform the simplest spells. Anna would do anything to belong. But her fate takes another course when, after inadvertently breaking her sister’s debutante spell—an important chance for a highborn young woman to show her prowess with magic—Anna finds herself exiled to her family’s once powerful but now crumbling native Hungary.

  Her life might well be over.

  In Hungary, Anna discovers that nothing is quite as it seems. Not the people around her, from her aloof cousin Noémi to the fierce and handsome Romani Gábor. Not the society she’s known all her life, for discontent with the Luminate is sweeping the land. And not her lack of magic. Isolated from the only world she cares about, Anna still can’t seem to stop herself from breaking spells.

  As rebellion spreads across the region, Anna’s unique ability becomes the catalyst everyone is seeking. In the company of nobles, revolutionaries, and Romani, Anna must choose: deny her unique power and cling to the life she’s always wanted, or embrace her ability and change that world forever.

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  YABC: Have you always been an avid reader?

  Pretty much always. I remember going to the library weekly as a kid and coming home with a box full of books--and then reading the books my siblings had checked out because I'd finished all of mine. I got in trouble more than once for reading when I should be doing something else. One time, I was reading the cereal boxes when I was supposed to clear the table (because, words) and when my dad got after me, I panicked and put the dirty dishes in the cupboard. Just recently, my son asked if we could go back to the library. We'd just been the day before, but he'd already finished all eight of the books he'd checked out. I love seeing my passion for reading get passed along to my kids.

  YABC: What is your favorite fantasy world?

  I will always have a weakness for the fantasy worlds of my childhood: Narnia, Middle Earth, Damar. But my favorite recent fantasy world is Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse. It's so rich and diverse and I would love to be able to visit (though I'm pretty sure I'd get killed in some of the rougher parts of Ketterdam.)

  YABC: What is your favorite aspect of your own fantasy world?

  I'm pretty happy with the four orders of magic--I spent a lot of time trying to come up with a division of magic that would make sense but wouldn't repeat groupings already found in other fantasy books (dividing magic along elemental lines, for instance), and I hope readers enjoy them! I even put together a quiz if readers are curious which order they might belong to:https://uquiz.com/yNzfHM?embed=False

  YABC: What was the most difficult aspect of writing this novel?

  Something I struggled with in early drafts was merging the magic plot with the revolutionary plot--it took a lot of revisions and notes from my editor to make the two different angles part of the same plot, instead of separate stories.

  YABC: What would you like to say to your readers who might feel voiceless?

  This is a really good question. I know that even as an adult, I sometimes feel voiceless. It's easy to get discouraged and feel like what we have to say doesn't matter. But I firmly believe that it does matter--it might be that your voice is the thing that one person really needs to hear. To readers who feel voiceless, I would say, "You matter. Your voice matters." And I'd tell them the same thing Anna's grandmother tries to tell her (and I think Anna finally starts to believe): "You are enough."

  YABC: Which character gave you the most trouble when writing your latest book?

  I’d say that Gábor was the hardest character for me to write. As a Romani man, he comes from a very different cultural background than I do, and I felt a lot of pressure to try and present that background respectfully, which required a lot more research and care than the other characters.

  YABC: Which part of the writing process do you enjoy more: Drafting or Revising?

  I actually like parts of both—I love drafting when the story pours out of me and I get to see a new world take shape. (Though there are times when drafting is like pulling teeth.) But there’s also something incredibly satisfying about taking a rough form of a story and pulling it apart and putting it back together even better than it was before. If I had to pick one, I’d say revising wins by a slight margin.

  YABC: What would you say is your superpower?

  Focus is both my super power and my Achilles’ heel: when I’m deep into a project I can block out just about everything else and power through. But as a mom with three young kids, sometimes being able to block everything out is not a good idea! My husband frequently laughs at me because I can disappear so completely into a book.

  YABC: Is there an organization or cause that is close to your heart?

  There are lots that I respect, including First Book, which works hard to get books into the hands of underprivileged kids: https://www.firstbook.org/

  I also have a friend who has worked with refugee camps in Germany and the current plight of refugees is heartbreaking. I’m in a pretty small rural town where we don’t have many refugees, but I’m proud to support the work of the International Rescue Committee: https://www.rescue.org/

  Blood Rose Rebellion

  By: Rosalyn Eves

  Publisher: Knopf Books For Young Readers

  Release Date: March 28th, 2017

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  MEET THE AUTHOR: ROSALYN EVES, BLOOD ROSE REBELLION - INTERVIEW + GIVEAWAY

  Hi Everyone!

  Welcome Back! I have with me today Rosalyn Eves, author of Blood Rose Rebellion, one of my MOST Anticipated releases of the year! Pitched as perfect for fans of Red Queen, Blood Rose Rebellion revolves around a girl who has the power to BREAK Magic Spells and the revolution in causes.

  It looks GORGEOUS, and sounds even better (if that's possible) and I CANNOT wait for March to get here so I can jump in!

  Welcome to the blog, Rosalyn, and thank SO MUCH for agreeing to come!

  We'd Love To Get To Know More About You:

  1. Do you have any pets? Are you a cat person or a dog person?

  I don’t, though my kids keep asking for a dog! But three kids is enough for now.

  2. If you could have written any book in the world, which would it be?

  Ooh, that’s a tough one. There are lots of authors I really admire (Jane Austen’s eye for social nuance, Leigh Bardugo’s worlds, Lois Bujold’s intricate theologies), but I’m going to go with Katherine Arden’s The Bear and the Nightingale, because that’s the most recent book I wish I’d written—the writing is effortlessly gorgeous, the history seamlessly blended with the world mythology.

  3. This or That:
  -- Chinese or Italian Food
  Chinese

  -- Stilettos or Wedges
  Wedges (I can’t walk in stilettos!)

  And Now, Moving Onto Your Masterpiece:

  4. How did you get the idea for Blood Rose Rebellion?
  I lived in Hungary for a year and a half in my twenties and fell in love with the country and the culture. When I decided I wanted to write a Victorian era fantasy, it seemed like a natural setting. I was also interested in playing with the chosen one narrative—creating a character who, far from possessing unusually strong power, does not have power at all. Those two things came together as the genesis for the story.

  5. If you could give one piece of advice to your main characters, what would it be?

  I’d tell Anna to slow down a little and think before she acts. She isn’t always good at that.

  6. If Blood Rose Rebellion had a theme song, it would be?

  I still haven’t found a song that captures the book perfectly, but Imagine Dragon’s “Demon” comes close.

  Eves author photoRosalyn Eves grew up in the Rocky Mountains, dividing her time between reading books and bossing her siblings into performing her dramatic scripts. As an adult, the telling and reading of stories is still one of her favorite things to do. When she’s not reading or writing, she enjoys spending time with her chemistry professor husband and three children, watching British period pieces, or hiking through the splendid landscape of southern Utah, where she lives. She dislikes housework on principle.
  She has a PhD in English from Penn State, which means she also endeavors to inspire college students with a love for the English language. Sometimes it even works.

  Rosalyn is represented by Josh Adams of Adams literary.

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  Blood Rose Rebellion (Blood Rose Rebellion, #1)Title: Blood Rose Rebellion (Blood Rose Rebellion #1)
  Author: Rosalyn Eves
  Publication Date: March 28th 2017
  Publisher: Knopf Books For Young Readers (Random House)
  Part of a Series?: Yes, Book 1/3 of the Blood Rose Rebellion Trilogy
  Buy Links: Amazon || The Book Depository || Barnes and Noble
  Blurb Description: The thrilling first book in a YA fantasy trilogy for fans of Red Queen. In a world where social prestige derives from a trifecta of blood, money, and magic, one girl has the ability to break the spell that holds the social order in place.
  Sixteen-year-old Anna Arden is barred from society by a defect of blood. Though her family is part of the Luminate, powerful users of magic, she is Barren, unable to perform the simplest spells. Anna would do anything to belong. But her fate takes another course when, after inadvertently breaking her sister’s debutante spell—an important chance for a highborn young woman to show her prowess with magic—Anna finds herself exiled to her family’s once powerful but now crumbling native Hungary.
  Her life might well be over.
  In Hungary, Anna discovers that nothing is quite as it seems. Not the people around her, from her aloof cousin Noémi to the fierce and handsome Romani Gábor. Not the society she’s known all her life, for discontent with the Luminate is sweeping the land. And not her lack of magic. Isolated from the only world she cares about, Anna still can’t seem to stop herself from breaking spells.
  As rebellion spreads across the region, Anna’s unique ability becomes the catalyst everyone is seeking. In the company of nobles, revolutionaries, and Romanies, Anna must choose: deny her unique power and cling to the life she’s always wanted, or embrace her ability and change that world forever.

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  Saturday, April 1, 2017
  1Rosalyn Eves, author of BLOOD ROSE REBELLION, on blending fantasy and folklore

  We are spellbound about the opportunity to sit down with Rosalyn Eves and learn more about her debut novel BLOOD ROSE REBELLION.

  Rosalyn, what book or books would most resonate with readers who love your book--or visa versa?

  When I first read Naomi Novik’s UPROOTED, it was like a revelation—this was the kind of book I’d been trying to write. Her blend of fantasy and folklore is pitch-perfect.

  I think readers who like the blend of manners, magic, and monsters would also love Jessica Cluess’s A SHADOW BRIGHT AND BURNING, set in 19th century England, and Jessica Day George’s SILVER IN THE BLOOD, set in 19th century Romania.

  Stephanie Burgis has a lovely historical fantasy (though it’s adult, rather than YA) that takes place a century earlier at the Eszterháza estate featured in my book, during its height, when Franz Liszt lived there and the Viennese court visited: MASKS AND SHADOWS.

  An older YA novel, but one of my favorites, is Juliet Marillier’s WILDWOOD DANCING, a 12 dancing princesses retelling set in Romania (and, perhaps not coincidentally, edited by my same editor at Knopf, Michelle Frey).

  How long did you work on BLOOD ROSE REBELLION?

  I got the idea for BLOOD ROSE REBELLION sometime in 2012 and wrote the first draft in 2013. The first draft was pretty long and messy—I wound up doing a couple more revisions and cutting over 20K from the story in 2014, just in time to get into Pitch Wars! I did another round of revisions during Pitch Wars and signed with my agent, Josh Adams, in December 2014. The book sold in early 2015. So, almost two years to write—and another two years from selling to publication! Traditional publishing has taught me a lot about patience. ☺

  What do you hope readers will take away from BLOOD ROSE REBELLION?

  I think a lot of us go through our teenage years feeling rather out-of-place (I know I did), and I wanted to reflect that in Anna’s experience of living on the fringes of her society. But it was also important to me that Anna come to recognize her own strengths and find that acceptance is less about conforming to someone else’s ideal and more about being true to yourself—and I hope that’s something readers take away too. That they can be strong and smart and wonderful all in their own way, and that’s enough.

  How long or hard was your road to publication? How many books did you write before this one, and how many never got published?

  I decided I wanted to be a writer when I was eleven and started writing short stories soon after. I wrote some novellas in junior high, and my first full-length novel (okay, really a very derivative epic fantasy trilogy) in high school. But I got distracted by college and grad school and life and didn’t come back to creative writing until I had two small kids at home. I wrote a middle grade novel that I queried and finally shelved before writing BLOOD ROSE REBELLION.

  If you’d told 11-year-old me that it would take *decades* to get published, I might have quit then. But I’m glad I didn’t!

  What are you working on now?

  I’m in edits for book two, which picks up a few months after BLOOD ROSE REBELLION, and drafting book three and I’m excited (scared?) to figure out how the story wraps up.

  ABOUT THE BOOK
  Blood Rose Rebellion
  by Rosalyn Eves
  Hardcover
  Knopf Books for Young Readers
  Released 3/28/2017

  The thrilling first book in a YA fantasy trilogy for fans of Red Queen. In a world where social prestige derives from a trifecta of blood, money, and magic, one girl has the ability to break the spell that holds the social order in place.

  Sixteen-year-old Anna Arden is barred from society by a defect of blood. Though her family is part of the Luminate, powerful users of magic, she is Barren, unable to perform the simplest spells. Anna would do anything to belong. But her fate takes another course when, after inadvertently breaking her sister’s debutante spell—an important chance for a highborn young woman to show her prowess with magic—Anna finds herself exiled to her family’s once powerful but now crumbling native Hungary.

  Her life might well be over.

  In Hungary, Anna discovers that nothing is quite as it seems. Not the people around her, from her aloof cousin Noémi to the fierce and handsome Romani Gábor. Not the society she’s known all her life, for discontent with the Luminate is sweeping the land. And not her lack of magic. Isolated from the only world she cares about, Anna still can’t seem to stop herself from breaking spells.

  As rebellion spreads across the region, Anna’s unique ability becomes the catalyst everyone is seeking. In the company of nobles, revolutionaries, and Romanies, Anna must choose: deny her unique power and cling to the life she’s always wanted, or embrace her ability and change that world forever.

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  ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  Eves author photoRosalyn Eves grew up in the Rocky Mountains, dividing her time between reading books and bossing her siblings into performing her dramatic scripts. As an adult, the telling and reading of stories is still one of her favorite things to do. When she's not reading or writing, she enjoys spending time with her chemistry professor husband and three children, watching British period pieces, or hiking through the splendid landscape of southern Utah, where she lives. She dislikes housework on principle.

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  Have you had a chance to read BLOOD ROSE REBELLION yet? Have you participated in Pitch Wars? What are some techniques that you use to stay patient during the query process? Share your thoughts about the interview in the comments!

  Happy reading,

  Emily, Jocelyn, Anisaa, Sam, Martina, Erin, Susan, Shelly, Kelly, Laura, and Lori Ann

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In this new Regency fantasy series set in 19th-century London, 16-year-old Anna is a member of the Luminate, the
British nobility whose magic powers solidify their place as the ruling class. But Anna has no magic of her own, only the
ability to break others' spells, which makes her the black sheep of the family. After ruining her sister's debutante spell,
she is sent to Hungary to live with her exiled grandmother. But once there, she discovers that the Luminate are
artificially keeping magic for themselves and that there is a resistance movement dedicated to freeing magic for all to
use--and Anna's special gift may be the key, if she is willing to join them. Voice actor Hardingam emphasizes Anna's
yearning and conflicted emotions, and she is especially gifted at creating unique character voices with an endless array
of authentic accents: the upper-class British nobility, cockney servants, a Scottish revolutionary, Anna's Hungarian
cousins and elderly grandmother, and Austrian officials, as well as ghoulish supernatural creatures with unearthly
voices. Her dazzling narration creates a dark and intriguing world that fans of both Jane Austen-style drawing room
novels and the supernatural will enjoy. Ages 12--up. A Knopf hardcover. (Mar.)
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lib. ed" $20.99 (9781101936009); e book, $ 17.99 (9781101936016). Gr. 9-12.
Eves' first novel combines historical fiction, magical powers, class struggles, and revolution to mixed effect in the story
of 17-year-old Anna Arden. Born without magic to a wealthy and powerful family in mid-nineteenth-century Britain,
Anna is an embarrassment whose only magical power seems to be making other, people's spells go wrong. After she
inadvertently ruins her sister's London debut, Anna and her Hungarian grandmother are sent to Hungary to lie low. But
here Anna discovers fascinating, incredibly handsome Gabor, a Romani who initially despises her but eventually agrees
to teach her Romani magic. She's caught up in her desire for him, while fending off the attentions of her third-cousin
Matyas and the determined Scottish rebel who hopes to convince Anna to lead a revolution and release magical powers
for all, not just the wealthy. It's easy enough to follow the many plot threads, but harder to build a real connection to
Anna, who is more a Harlequin heroine than thinking rebel. Still, it's refreshing to see romance and rebellion cheek by
jowl.--Debbie Carton
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Victorian rebellion among the Magyar and the magical creatures of Hungary and Eastern Europe: the taltos, liderc, and
rusalka.In a 19th-century Europe where the nobility's political power is reinforced by their magic, Anna is a failure
among the highborn Luminate of London: she's Barren of magic. Though her supernatural sterility leaves her unsuitable
for marriage, Anna has dreams. All her hopes crumble into dust, however, when her mysterious, uncontrollable ability
to shatter magic destroys her sister's debut. Packed off to stay with poor cousins in Hungary, Anna's promptly drawn
into the anti-imperial, democratic fervor spreading across Europe. Against the backdrop of the real-life Hungarian
rebellion to bring down the Hapsburgs, Anna comes to love Hungary, befriends passionate student rebels, and learns
that her Barrenness is (of course) a unique, potentially earth-shattering power. Narrator Anna, a white British woman of
rank, questions her feelings for the handsome Romani, Gabor, who helps Anna negotiate the pros and cons of saving the
world: freedom for the Magyar will also free Hungary's dangerous mythological creatures. Confident of her
righteousness, Anna alternately scolds her family for saying "Gypsy" instead of "Romani," feels annoyance at Gabor for
accusing her of slumming it with an exotic lover, and exoticizes the Romani herself. Intrigue, romance, and revolution,
with enough unanswered questions that fans will cross fingers for a sequel. (author's note, bibliography, character list,
glossary) (Fantasy. 13-15)
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Eves's captivating debut opens in London in 1847. Highborn magicians known as Luminates rule Europe, and a spell
dubbed the Binding precludes proletarian insurrection by restricting the use of magic to those with noble blood. Enter
Anna Arden, a 16-year-old of noble birth who can't cast spells, and will therefore never be accepted into Luminate
society. When an unfortunate incident reveals that Anna has a singular talent for breaking spells, she is beset by
requests from rebels to undo the Binding. Anna is sympathetic to their cause but knows that Luminate officials would
kill to maintain the status quo, so she decamps to Hungary. A class war is brewing there, too, forcing Anna to decide
between playing it safe but remaining a nobody and risking everything for the chance to transform the world. This
richly imagined historical fantasy enchants while contemplating sexism, classism, and how best to effect social change.
Intrigue, action, and star-crossed romance abound, propelling this trilogy opener toward a heartbreaking yet hopeful
conclusion. Ages 12--up. Agent: Josh Adams, Adams Literary. (Mar.)
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  Book review: 'Blood Rose Rebellion' is a magical historical fantasy
  By Wendy Jessen
  For the Deseret News
  Published: March 26, 2017 10:40 a.m.

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  Penguin Random House
  "Blood Rose Rebellion" is by Rosalyn Eves.
  "BLOOD ROSE REBELLION," by Rosalyn Eves, Knopf, $20.99, 416 pages (ages 12 and up)

  Utah author Rosalyn Eves beautifully weaves history and magic to create a captivating story in "Blood Rose Rebellion."

  Sixteen-year-old Anna Arden, part of an affluent British Luminate family, fails to fulfill her magical heritage and is declared Barren by the Circle — she cannot perform even easy spells. However, despite her lack of magical ability, Anna somehow accidentally breaks the spells of others. After she ruins a particularly important event for her family, Anna is sent to live with her grandmother in Hungary.

  Anna soon discovers that the people around her carry dangerous secrets as well as truths she hadn't considered. The Binding controls the use of magic, reserving it only for the elite society, which also limits its power to individuals. Anna begins to question the Binding and the Circle, especially when she meets an attractive Romani man, Gábor, with whom she falls in love.

  Surrounded by nobles, revolutionaries, Romani and her family, Anna begins to learn and question more about society, magic and herself. As pressure mounts from two different sides, Anna must decide if she wants to stay loyal to her upbringing, even if it means she will never quite fit in, or risk her life and the lives of those she loves to join the rebellion and possibly change the world she knows.

  Eves' debut novel and the first of a trilogy, "Blood Rose Rebellion" is action-packed and fast-paced, filled with magic and romance in an alternate European history. With vivid descriptions, Eves' diverse characters challenge societal norms concerning sexism and classism — especially Anna, who is a strong, smart and courageous female character teens can relate to.

  "Blood Rose Rebellion" has a few instances of mild swearing. Any romance does not go beyond kissing. There is some mild described violence.

  If you go …

  What: Rosalyn Eves book signing

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  When: Thursday, March 30, 7 p.m.

  Where: Provo Library, 550 N. University Ave., Provo

  Web: provolibrary.com/authorlink

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  When: Saturday, April 1, 7 p.m.

  Where: The King's English, 1511 S. 1500 East

  Web: kingsenglish.com

  Note: The signing line is for those who buy a copy of the featured book from The King’s English.

  Wendy Jessen is a regular contributor for familyshare.com and does media reviews. Blog/website: https://survivorshopeandhealing.wordpress.com/ for victims of sexual abuse. Twitter: @WendyJessen Email: wendyjessen26@gmail

• Young Adult Book Reviews
  https://youngadultbookreviews.com/2017/05/24/blood-rose-rebellion-by-rosalyn-eves/
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  Blood Rose Rebellion by Rosalyn Eves
  Published May 24, 2017 Fantasy Leave a Comment
  Tags: betrayal, family, friendship, Hungary, magic, trust

  Genre: Fantasy

  # of Pages: 403

  Anna was born into an elite Luminate British family, which means her family has access to magic, which is strictly restricted from anyone not in the Luminates. There is an uprising building up to break the binding spell that restricts magic away from anyone considered unworthy and Anna is shocked to learn her own father is a sympathizer. He believes the binding is in place merely to keep the wealthy in power and not to protect those who simply do not know how to use magic and could hurt themselves or someone else. When Anna comes of age, however, her ceremony to practice magic goes poorly and she is believed to be barren, which means she’ll never really be accepted by the Luminates or those outside the Luminates. One power she does seem to have is to break other people’s spells, which is why her family forbid her from coming to her sister’s coming out party. She sneaks in anyway and accidentally ruins her sister’s coming out. Partly as punishment, partly as protection from those who wish to study Anna’s unusual capability of breaking other people’s spells, she is sent away with her grandmother to Hungary. Upon arrival, Anna meets some interesting people and begins to see that those who possess magical tendencies but at outside the Luminates are treated abominably in order to keep them in their place. She begins to wonder if she should use her one power to break the binding so that magic would be available to anyone who wishes to use it. Is she powerful enough? Would it cause chaos and catastrophe like the Luminates predict?

  Fans of fantasy stories will enjoy this title. The truth about Anna’s condition eventually comes out, but it may confuse some younger readers. The story meanders a bit when Anna first goes to Hungary, but once the new characters are properly introduced the story picks up again for a satisfying ending. Recommended for students who have already found other fantasy series they enjoy.

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