What I wasn’t expecting was for her to be such a bad-ass, especially when she is juxtaposed against Adale, the Crown Princess that Esofi is to marry after the sudden death of Adale’s brother, Albion. She is book smart and devout to the pantheon of gods of the realm. Esofi is at first characterized as a soft, well mannered princess who has been raised for most of her life knowing she would be the next Queen of Ieflaria because of an arranged marriage. I enjoyed it immensely and really enjoyed that Calvin subverted some expectations that I had when I first began reading. The Queen of Ieflaria is a wonderful fantasy book for all the right reasons. But Adale has no plans of taking the throne, leaving Esofi with more to battle than fire-breathing beasts. At age seventeen, Esofi’s journey to Ieflaria is not for the wedding she always expected but instead to offer condolences on the death of her would-be husband.īut Ieflaria is desperately in need of help from Rhodia for their dragon problem, so Esofi is offered a new betrothal to Prince Albion’s younger sister, the new Crown Princess Adale. Princess Esofi of Rhodia and Crown Prince Albion of Ieflaria have been betrothed since they were children but have never met.
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