Wings of Ebony
โ Scribed by J. Elle
- Publisher
- Denene Millner Books/Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- EN-US
- Weight
- 187 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1534470670
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โฆ Synopsis
In this riveting, keenly emotional debut fantasy, a teen girl from Houston has her world upended when she learns about her godly ancestry --and with evil sinking its claws into humans and gods alike, she'll have to master her abilities to save both her worlds.
Rue's family is her whole life, and East Row, the Houston neighborhood she calls home, is her world. But then the unthinkable happens. Rue's mom is murdered, and a father she's never met snatches her away from her sister. Now Rue is far away from everything she knows, trapped in her father's home, Ghazan, a secret country of gods.
Rue is the first half-god, half-human here, where leaders protect their magical powers at all costs and thrive on human suffering. Miserable and desperate to see her sister on the anniversary of their mother's death, Rue breaks Ghazan's most sacred law: she returns to Houston, only to discover that drugs flood the streets, black kids are being forced into crime and violence,...
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