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Hello! I’m looking for a Young Adult novel, fiction. Not sure how long it is, and I only remember a few plot details. It’s about a peasant-type girl who is sent to work in a “Queendom” where women rule rather than men. There’s a rivalry between either a mother/daughter or older/younger sisters in the royal family and each rival has her own “court” color (the colors of the court ladies’ dresses’, flags hung in the halls, and other details, and the two colors are green and blue). The peasant girl is without her mother because she talks about missing her a lot. The girl is assigned to work as a fabric dyer and always talks about her hands being stained yellow, or possibly green. I remember the end specifically because both of the rival royal women end up poisoning each other and the new royal baby, whose color is purple, has a flag raised in her honor over the Queendom, and the peasant girl watches this take place as she is leaving in a horse-pulled cart, possibly being smuggled out. Literally the last words are close to "and she watched the purple flag as it was raised high over the somber queendom" or something. Sadly, I don't remember what the cover looked like. I might have read the novel during the years 2007-2011 when I was in middle or high school. I do believe the specific word "queendom" is used to describe the place to the peasant girl when she first arrives, because she isn't used to the concept. I also think the book may have been part of a series about this girl because I get the impression from my memory of the end of the book that her story continues. I used to think the novel might be part of the 'Gathering Blue' and 'The Giver' series by Lois Lowry but I haven't had luck with that lead, although I may have read those books around the same time. I remember that the younger of the royal females who are fighting over the throne becomes close to the girl, and eventually invites her to the court and gives her a taste of the nice life. There's a male royal adviser character who is playing both sides of the rivalry as well. If anyone has any questions about what I remember please ask! I would love to read this again as an adult.

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secretdesires31

Hi,

I am looking for an original historical fantasy M/M book which included cat-like people as a species co existing with humans. One of the central characters was a cat person, who was a soldier I think. There were other cat people in the story, some of whom were kind of villainous.

Another character was a mute orphan boy (name was probably Eli?) who turned out to be a fire-starter mage. The boy's father was revealed later to be a healer, who was supposed to be celibate and thus the boy's birth was a secret. In this world the healers lived in a kind of impenetrable tower and they were all sorta immortal. The tower was taken over by evil forces who tortured the healers.

There were 2 other central characters whom I can't remember at all. As far as I remember, this is a published book.

Really hope someone remembers this story and can help me find it! Thanks in advance!

whats_up9

Hi everybody!

So the details I remember are:

Good vs evil in both the real world and parallel world

The setting of the book is an old school but there is also a parallel world (of sorts) where there are dragons, kings and all that stuff so that version is like a medieval fantasy one. You can only go to that parallel world and back on certain times a year. People from the school also have like, soul twins(?) in the parallel world. For example there is a professor in the school who knows these things and mentors laura, his other version in the parallel world is a king and I remember both of them getting hurt or sick if either of them gets hurt or sick. And the protagonist needed to save the professor/king at one point because of this(one of them was poisoned I think?) I think she had to get something like the holy chalice or something like that to heal the guy but I’m not sure

The main character was a girl called Laura (%90 sure) she had telepathy, telekinesis and other abilities like that. She basically helps the professor and other good characters by having secret confrontations with the evil guys in the real world, she also goes to the parallel one to help out with stuff.

I think there are 5 or 6 books in the series and I’m %100 sure the main heroine forgets everything and loses her powers to win against the evil at the end. And then a new student arrives (and it is implied that the new guy has her abilities and he/she will take the protagonist’s place now) and it ends like that

I remember a dragon eating a character in the 4th or 5th book I think?

I also remember that the protagonist has a confrontation with a sfenks(sphynx?) in the parallel world and she escapes by answering her riddle correctly.

I also remember that the evil people try to kill the protagonist and her mom when she’s little, they put some hellhound like dogs on the road when they are in a car and her mother drives the car down a cliff to the sea to not hit them, her mother drowns but an angel or something saves the protagonist

I think she also has a brother who has no powers BUT I’m really not sure about this one

I think I read this book around 7-8 years before? I think it was a new book back then but I’m not sure.

This is about all I remember from the books. If anyone can help me out I’d really appreciate it, thanks in advance everybody!

cyclonecasey

I remember my grandmother use to read me to my from a storybook one of the stories involved a Queen who was traveling by boat and was kidnapped by trolls(?) and a witch(?) took her place. But for three nights the real queen was permitted to visit her baby, she'd come up through the floor wearing rags and just hold her baby all night, and eventually was set free (the king broke the chains with a sword) and the imposter killed(?)

Bonus points if you can help me find the the storybook it comes from (it also had a version of the 12 dancing princesses in it, that's all I remember)

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