SuitabookBelonging between cultures
Nicias is a falcon whose parents are exiles, and he feels not fully at home among the avians and serpiente in Wyvern’s Court.
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Amelia Atwater-Rhodes - Author
This is an identity-and-duty fantasy with court politics, shapeshifting cultures, visions and magic. Nicias’s divided loyalties place personal belonging alongside decisions affecting rulers and communities.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is an identity-and-duty fantasy with court politics, shapeshifting cultures, visions and magic. Nicias’s divided loyalties place personal belonging alongside decisions affecting rulers and communities.
Nicias is a falcon whose parents are exiles, and he feels not fully at home among the avians and serpiente in Wyvern’s Court.
Nicias faces a choice between duty and destiny while others seek to bind or control magic connected with his visions.
The opening presents a royal union after generations of war and shows continuing distrust between members of the avian and serpiente communities.
Pay attention to peril in the blade-dance scene, references to long-running war, cultural distrust, dangerous power and pressure surrounding royal duty.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the book’s treatment of its main themes is not yet firm enough; some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
Falcondance | Penguin Random House Secondary Education
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