When Zélie was small, her mother — a powerful maji — was stripped of her magic, dragged away by the king’s soldiers, and hanged. The same thing happened all across the country Orïsha, and no magic has been seen in the country since then. The children of the maji, marked by their white hair, remain figures of suspicion and terror under the authoritarian regime of the same king who killed their parents. Zélie is one such child. This! Cover! I absolutely love this cover. That steely look is exactly Zélie’s character: Though she sometimes acts rashly, and though she lives…
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