SuitabookPower and social responsibility
A new lord takes the villagers’ winter stores, and villagers later have to decide how to use power after taking a castle.
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Frances Hardinge - Author
Expect imaginative castle movement, adventure and a mysterious power structure, with moral pressure arising as Burr becomes involved in resistance to an unjust order.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceExpect imaginative castle movement, adventure and a mysterious power structure, with moral pressure arising as Burr becomes involved in resistance to an unjust order.
A new lord takes the villagers’ winter stores, and villagers later have to decide how to use power after taking a castle.
Godlike Players move castles through a Great Game whose rules and origins remain mysterious to the characters and reader.
Pay particular attention to grief and loss.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
Anything not established here remains open; it is not being treated as absent or safe.
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