Girls of Paper and Fire Each year, eight beautiful girls are chosen as Paper Girls to serve the king It s the highest honor they could hope ford the most cruel.But this year, there s a ninth girl And instead of paper, she s
Title: Girls of Paper and Fire
Author: Natasha Ngan
ISBN: 9780316561365
Page: -
Format: Hardcover
Each year, eight beautiful girls are chosen as Paper Girls to serve the king It s the highest honor they could hope ford the most cruel.But this year, there s a ninth girl And instead of paper, she s made of fire.In this lush fantasy, Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest and most oppressed class in Ikhara She lives in a remote village with her father, wheEach year, eight beautiful girls are chosen as Paper Girls to serve the king It s the highest honor they could hope ford the most cruel.But this year, there s a ninth girl And instead of paper, she s made of fire.In this lush fantasy, Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest and most oppressed class in Ikhara She lives in a remote village with her father, where the decade old trauma of watching her mother snatched by royal guards still haunts her Now, the guards are back, and this time it s Lei they re after the girl whose golden eyes have piqued the king s interest.Over weeks of training in the opulent but stifling palace, Lei and eight other girls learn the skills and charm that befit being a king s consort But Lei isn t content to watch her fate consume her Instead, she does the unthinkable she falls in love Her forbidden romance becomes enmeshed with an explosive plot that threatens the very foundation of Ikhara, and Lei, still the wide eyed country girl at heart, must decide just how far she s willing to go for justice and revenge.Presented by James Patterson, Natasha Ngan s lyrical, searing, visceral fantasy, Girls of Paper and Fire, will remind us how precious freedom is and the price we must pay to achieve it.
Natasha Ngan is part young adult author, part yoga teacher, part habitual nap taker She grew up between Malaysia and the UK, speaking Chinese with her mother mainly as a way to talk about people without them understanding She studied Geography at the University of Cambridge and later worked as a fashion blogger, social media consultant and freelance writer Natasha recently moved to Paris, where she likes to imagine she drifts stylishly from brasserie to brasserie, notepad in one hand and wineglass in the other In reality, she mostly spends her time lost on the metro and offending locals with her French She is represented by Taylor Haggerty at Root Literary Her YA novels THE ELITES and THE MEMORY KEEPERS are out now from Hot Key Books, and GIRLS OF PAPER AND FIRE will be published in Fall 2018 by Little Brown.
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