Kill the Queen
core novel 2018 Crown of Shards
Record
| First published | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.02 (16,949 ratings, collected 2026-11-05) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780062797612 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Lady Everleigh Blair, known as Evie, is seventeenth in line for the throne of Bellona, a kingdom where a person's magical power decides their standing. Because she shows no magic, the court mostly ignores her. That changes when her cousin, the crown princess Vasilia, murders the queen and seizes the throne. Evie survives the slaughter of the royal family because she is immune to magic. She hides among a troupe of gladiators, learns to fight alongside them, and decides to enter the arena herself so that she can get close enough to kill the new queen. One of the troupe, Lucas Sullivan, is a strong magier with secrets of his own.
Where it sits
- Universe: Crown of Shards
- Series: Crown of Shards core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Jennifer Estep
Notes
- From the series record (Crown of Shards): Everleigh Blair, a magic-immune noblewoman of Bellona, survives a royal massacre, trains as a gladiator and fights to reclaim and hold the throne.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Crown of Shards: position 1 of 3: next Protect the Prince (2019)
- Internal chronology, within Crown of Shards: position 1 of 6: next Capture the Crown (2021)
Sources
- Jennifer Estep - Crown of Shards series
- Wikipedia: Jennifer Estep
- Publishers Weekly listing (Harper Voyager trade paperback)
- Rising Shadow
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