![]() ![]() Why this “friend” wanted such a delinquent isn’t immediately clear, but it becomes apparent as this man, Master Bevin Conner, wheels his horse-drawn carriage around the land of Carthya picking up other teen orphans with an uncanny resemblance to a missing prince. The thief is Sage, a mischievous almost-15-year-old on the verge of being thrown out of an orphanage until he was purchased by a man identifying himself as a friend of the king’s court. The book opens with a boy running through the streets being chased by a cleaver-wielding butcher hoping to retrieve a stolen roast. ![]() ![]() This kickoff to her new “Ascendance Trilogy” is a swashbuckling origin story about orphans forced to compete with one another for a chance to take the crown. Nielsen takes that desire to an extreme with a romp of a medieval-themed, middle-grade novel. Most children want to be recognized as someone special. ![]()
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