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The Seer and the Sword - Victoria Hanley
Date: 2020-08-01 10:51 am (UTC)Media, length, availability, what it is: One Young Adult fantasy novel. Out of print, available on Kindle in some regions and possibly secondhand in paperback.
The Seer and the Sword is part of the author's "Healer and Seer Series", but this is an extremely loose grouping that does not share an era, a location, or a magic system, let alone characters; you do not remotely need to read the other two books.
This is an indulgently tropey fantasy that starts with a conquered and enslaved prince (Landen) being given as a gift to a princess (Torina), who promptly frees him. Over the course of the novel, both characters find their lives violently uprooted and must assume new identities and discover new skills; the courses of their lives are also deeply affected by the goals of a third royal figure, High King Dahmis.
What I love: There is so much pining! Pining for people you can't have, pining for people thought dead... Just pining in general. There is also competence, and dramatic episodes of competence! Torina is self-assured and brave; Landen is defiant and inventive and charismatic; Dahmis is charismatic, dedicated, and a visionary. And there is identity porn. So much identity porn. Also, of course, there is an adventure plot, involving politics between kings, a magic sword, a crystal ball that gives visions in the right hands, and a foreign invasion...
What I'm asking for: You can probably guess from the description so far that there is a romance between Landen and Torina, but the romance between Dahmis and Torina, and Dahmis and Landen, is nearly as textual. Dahmis can't stop thinking of Torina; Torina is tempted by Dahmis. Landen is utterly thrilled to work for Dahmis; Dahmis is intrigued by and deeply admiring of Landen. I really want to get all of them together, though more pining, or more politics and worldbuilding, would be a plus.
Content warnings: This is pretty safely middle-grade in tone and content (and prose). However, realms invade each other, there is slavery, there is murder and threatened murder, there is drugging, and there is a threat of coerced marriage.