Tuesday, February 4, 2014

The Offering by Kimberly Derting - ADVISABLE

Derting, Kimberly The Offering (The Pledge #3), 286 p. McElderry Books, 2014.  $18.  

Mature Content: PG (innuendo); Language: G; Violence: PG (some war).  

It is hard to rule a country when the last queen also inhabits your body.  Charlie would love to be rid of Sabara, but the only way possible is to transfer Sabara’s essence to someone else – and then kill that person.  And Charlie doesn’t know anyone she hates enough to kill like that.  When the Queen of Astonia kidnaps someone close to Charlie and starts a war instead of brokering peace, Charlie may have found her victim.  

This is an excellent piece of science fiction with a touch of personal magic.  The danger and the intrigue are just enough without being the whole reason for the book.  

MS, HS – ADVISABLE.  Cindy, Library Teacher

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