SuitabookPower, gender and magical identity
Ailsbet discovers a form of magic that her father’s society regards as tainting in a woman, while the princesses’ abilities affect their political value.
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Mette Ivie Harrison - Author
This is a fantasy about two princesses whose magic, family expectations and possible marriage alliance place personal love alongside competing claims to power. Music and self-knowledge provide important strands within the political conflict.
*Richly-imagined fantasy romance from the author of Princess and the Hound, a tale of two princesses--one with magic, one with none--who dare seek love in a world where real choice can never be theirs.* Ailsbet loves nothing more than music; tall and red-haired, she's impatient with the artifice and ceremony of her father's court. Marissa adores the world of her island home and feels she has much to offer when she finally inherits the throne from her wise, good-tempered father. The trouble is that neither princess has the power--or the magic--to rule alone, and if the kingdoms can be united, which princess will end up ruling the joint land? For both, the only goal would seem to be a strategic marriage to a man who can bring his own brand of power to the throne. But will either girl be able to marry for love? And can either of these two princesses, rivals though they have never met, afford to let the other live?
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a fantasy about two princesses whose magic, family expectations and possible marriage alliance place personal love alongside competing claims to power. Music and self-knowledge provide important strands within the political conflict.
Ailsbet discovers a form of magic that her father’s society regards as tainting in a woman, while the princesses’ abilities affect their political value.
Strategic betrothals and possible kingdom-wide union place marriage, love and inherited responsibility in tension.
Ailsbet’s love of her flute and the intensity of her response to music are given notable attention alongside her experience of magic.
Approach it as an incomplete-feeling fantasy journey: the stopping point leaves one princess exiled, another separated from her true love, and major plotlines without resolution.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
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