While there are some, like Father Tyler, who truly believe in doing what is right, for the most part those involved in the church seem to be entirely corrupt and greedy.

Blood Sport: Mace, Thorne, and Brenna were raised in an underground place called the Creche where children were forced to fight and kill each other for entertainment.

No one she knew from the other timeline recognizes her and Pen is outside her reach once more, but as the events of the books never actually took place, everyone lives and she is free to live a normal life, but the magical artifacts she used to do it are well within reach and she has some angst about being a nineteen year old girl who's already done the most important thing she will ever do and having a head full of memories and trauma no one can know about or relate to.

She returned to a time where there is no Queen, as Katie had turned over the crown to create a democracy. By going back in time and killing Rowland Finn before he and the Fetch got cursed by Katie for killing Jonathan, Kelsea changed the future. Bittersweet Ending: More heavy on the bitter than the sweet.Beak Attack: There is a specific breed of hawks, as big as dogs, who can kill people with their beak and talons.Kelsea is hurt that he thinks her plain, and does not much dwell on the fact that he told her he would have raped her if she was pretty. Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: The Fetch tells Kelsea he did not rape her while she was unconscious because she's too plain for his tastes.Anachronism Stew: Justified by the fact that the Tearling was founded by people from futuristic America, who brought over some of the lasting technology and culture.The Fetch and Rowland Finn were this through a curse. The Queen of Mortmesne achieved this through magic, though hers was stated to be finite, hence why she wanted the sapphires. The Series Contains Examples of the Following Tropes: The third and final novel, The Fate of the Tearling, was published on November 29, 2016.Ī prequel book, Beneath the Keep, was published in 2021 The key to defeating the evil of Mortmesne may lie in the secret of the Tearling's founding.Ī second book in the planned series of three, The Invasion of the Tearling, published in 2015, deals with the growing conflict between the Tearling and Mortmesne, as Kelsea begins to have visions of Lily, a woman who lived in pre-crossing America, a world on the verge of collapse where every facet of life is dictated by an oppressive government. Long ago, Kelsea's ancestors crossed into the Tearling from America, in search of a better world. Kelsea must right the wrongs of her mother, Queen Elyssa as well as deal with the neighboring country of Mortmesne, ruled by the malignant Red Queen. When she turns nineteen, Kelsea Raleigh Glynn must realize her birthright as queen of a small country known as the Tearling.

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