Kate elliott court of fives series6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In this imaginative escape into an enthralling new world, World Fantasy Award finalist Kate Elliott’s first young adult novel weaves an epic story of a girl struggling to do what she loves in a society suffocated by rules of class and privilege. When Kal’s powerful, scheming uncle tears Jes’s family apart, she’ll have to test her new friend’s loyalty and risk the vengeance of a royal clan to save her mother and sisters from certain death. Then Jes meets Kalliarkos, and an improbable friendship between the two Fives competitors-one of mixed race and the other a Patron boy-causes heads to turn. ![]() But away from her family, she can be whomever she wants when she sneaks out to train for the Fives, an intricate, multilevel athletic competition that offers a chance for glory to the kingdom’s best competitors. Jessamy’s life is a balance between acting like an upper-class Patron and dreaming of the freedom of the Commoners. ![]()
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