The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. A blonde woman in a blue shirt and blue pants is sitting on a large circular throne in a green room. There are pillars at either side of the throne. There is a walking cane in her right hand. She is leaning back and smirking. White text above her head reads “Every Queen Will Take Her Due” in caps. Below her, the title “The Faithless” in large white caps. Immediately below this, the author’s name “C. L. Clark” in slightly smaller yellow caps. /end]

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Content Warning:

• Colonisation
• Violence
• Death
• Sexual Content
• Vomit
• Torture
• Child Abuse
• Child Death
• Death of a Parent
• Panic Attacks

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Summary:

n the second installment of C.L. Clark’s Magic of the Lost trilogy, soldier Touraine and princess Luca must return to Balladaire to reclaim Luca’s throne and to face the consequences of dismantling an empire.

The rebels have won, and the empire is withdrawing from Qazal. But undoing the tangled web that binds the two nations won’t be easy, and Touraine and Luca will face their greatest challenge yet.

Luca needs to oust her uncle from the Balladairan throne once and for all and take her rightful place as Queen. But he won’t let go of power so easily. When he calls for a “Trial of Competence” and Luca’s allies start disappearing from her side, she will have to prove her might. And she knows someone who can help…

Touraine has found a home in the newly free country of Qazal. However, she soon realizes that leading a country and leading a revolution are two very different tasks. And, even more importantly, if Luca won’t keep her promises, the Qazali could end up right back where they started.

Together, the two women must overcome their enemies, their history, and their heartbreak in order to secure Luca’s power and Touraine’s freedom.

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Notes:

This is the second book in the Magic of the Lost series.

There is an audiobook.

There is a kindle/ebook version.

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Archivist Comments:

Adding this to my list of “sapphic high fantasy book series about a soldier and a noble of some kind”.

As of writing this, the third book in the series has not been released yet.

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