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“As a child, Wren read lots of fairy tales. That's why, when the monsters came, she knew it was because she had been wicked.”

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The Stolen Heir

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Holly Black

Holly Black, born on November 10, 1971, is a renowned fantasy fiction writer from the United States. Her works are known for their unique imagination and profound emotional depth, which have won her a large fan base. more

“At the centre of the tent rests three thrones- two large and one small. They seem to be sculptures of ice, with flowers and leaves frozen inside them. The large thrones are unoccupied, but a blue-skinned girl sits on the small one, a crown of icicles on her head and a golden bridle around her mouth and throat. She looks to be only a year or two older than Oak and is dressed in a column of grey silk. Her gaze is on her fingers, which move restlessly against one another. Her nails are bitten short and crusted with a thin rime of blood.”

Fantasy Holly Black Thrones The Folk Of The Air Faerie Suren Wren The Queen Of Nothing Crown Bridle

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“You will not always be so small or so frightened,' she told me. 'You are a queen.”

Frightened Holly Black Queen The Stolen Heir Suren Wren Small Bogdana

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“I gobble the food down, trying to imagine that I am sitting at the table with them. Trying to imagine myself as their daughter again, and not what's left of her. A cuckoo trying to fit back into the egg.”

Eating Holly Black The Stolen Heir Suren Wren Egg Imagining Cuckoo

Book:The Stolen Heir

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