The Heart of the Kingdom (The Kingdom Curses) (Volume 1)
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (933 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1620044471 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 314 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-07 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Instead of love, however, Cenric is informed of her engagement to someone else, wakes up to find his house burning down around him, and is dragged away by a man who might have saved him, but won't say much about why one necklace has Cenric running away from someone willing to kill to get it back.. All Cenric wanted was a necklace to gift to his lady love, in the hopes it might persuade her to actually become his lady love
LAS Reviewer said Great Reading. Cenric is his town’s scribe, having lived in Lansdale his entire life. But his life changes dramatically when he buys a necklace from a peddler’s cart. He thinks about giving it to a girl he admires, only to find out that she has just gotten engaged to someone else. Then, his house catches fire in the night and Cenric barely escapes with his life. He’s lost everything, but before he can absorb his losses, a stranger grabs him and hustles him ou. 2015 Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention Elisa "This was a very good story. The reader was quite literally taken on a journey with lots of twists and turns. My only negative is that the story between the two men seemed to take a backseat to everything else. I was personally left wanting in that regards.Very well done. Original. Creative. Intriguing. Detailed.Loved the dwarfs, but by the time we got to the capitol there were almost too many characters to keep track of. Author did a good job of trying to give . The kind of book I love to read! This is the kind of book that I love to read. Small town boy makes a simple choice which drastically alters his reality. When Cenric buys a necklace for the girl he has a crush on from Nick the Tinker, the last things he expects are within a few hours; to find out the girl is already engaged; to have his house burn to the ground; to be rescued by a mysterious stranger; and to go on the run from some creepy “shadow” thing.And that’s all in the f