The Eyes of a King

10 best books like The Eyes of a King (Catherine Banner): Shadow of a Dark Queen, Princess Academy, Icefall, Under the Jolly Roger: Being an Account of the Further Nautical Adventures of Jacky Faber, King of Foxes, The Wish List, Shadows in the Twilight, Bloody Streets of Paris, Donovan's Brain, The Peacock Summer

Shadow of a Dark Queen
AuthorRaymond E. Feist
ISBN0380720868
Weirdly, this might be my least favorite fantasy by Feist. I'm usually quite happy with them. Interesting characters, great locations, solid adventures, great plots. And generally, the worldbuilding is something quite good.

So what happened here? A confluence of factors that may not bother...
Princess Academy
AuthorShannon Hale
ISBN1599900734
Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have quarried stone and lived a simple life. Then word comes that the king's priests have divined her small village the home of the future princess. In a year's time, the prince himself will come and choose his bride from among the girls of...
Icefall
AuthorMatthew J. Kirby
ISBN0545274249
Trapped in a hidden fortress tucked between towering mountains and a frozen sea, Solveig, along with her brother the crown prince, their older sister, and an army of restless warriors, anxiously awaits news of her father's victory at battle. But as winter stretches on, and the unending ice refuses...
AuthorL.A. Meyer
ISBN0152058737
It makes me sad that they don't write many pirate novels for adults. This series is listed as YA, and the themes within are suitable for that category, but the main character is just so obnoxiously childish that I think I've outgrown her.

The author does his research well in terms of nautical technicalities...
King of Foxes
AuthorRaymond E. Feist
ISBN0380803267
In the mountains of Midkemia,
a boy came brutally of age in blood and
in terror. And now he lives for one
purpose alone ... revenge!

An exceptionally skilled swordsman, youngTal Hawkins was the only survivor of the massacre of his village -- rescued, recruited, and trained by the...
AuthorEoin Colfer
ISBN0439443369
Eoin Colfer has made millions of fans around the world with his much-loved character, Artemis Fowl, the star of his hugely best-selling series. Now, in a beautifully written novel that is already breaking records in his native Ireland, Colfer introduces readers to a lovable but troubled heroine,...
AuthorHenning Mankell
ISBN0385734964
Reviewed by Christina Tsichlis for TeensReadToo.com

SHADOWS IN THE TWILIGHT by Henning Mankell is written using the distinctive voice of the main character, Joel. This is a companion book to A BRIDGE TO THE STARS.

This is a story that asks philosophical questions and does it in a way...
AuthorLéo Malet
ISBN0743474481
Malet wrote a series of mysteries set in each of the 20 Parisian arrondissements featuring a French answer to Philip Marlowe, "dirty flat-foot" Nestor Burma. This one is set in Nazi-occupied Paris in the early forties, and is illustrated as several of the Malet adaptations are, by the celebrated Jacques...
AuthorCurt Siodmak
ISBN1584450789
Dr Patrick Cory is a scientist who, unable to save W.H. Donovan's life after a plane crash, keeps his brain alive thru an illegal experiment. The story provides an examination of evil impossible to forget. Donovan is more than one of the world's richest men. He's a megalomaniac even before Cory keeps...
The Peacock Summer
AuthorHannah Richell
ISBN1409152219
EXCERPT: All those versions of herself she has lived. So many different Lillians, all in this one body. If she could reach back through the years and warn the person she once was, what would she say? What would she tell that sorrowful girl standing in a London graveyard scattering earth onto the lid of her...
Scener ur hjärtat
AuthorMalena Ernman
Um Planeta Assassino


Com um verão tão fora dos conformes, o aquecimento global mais parece uma invenção gerada na mente criativa dalgum autor de distopias. Porém, basta-nos recuar um pouco no tempo, e recordar aqueles mais de 40 graus que nos surpreenderam na segunda quinzena de...
Exile's Return
AuthorRaymond E. Feist
ISBN0380803275
Saved by a mage's intervention from certain death, Kaspar, the evil Duke of Olasko, is lord no more -- reduced to an exile's existence and forced to wander the harshest realms of the world he once enslaved.

Merciless deserts, forbidding mountains, and vast oceans now separate the once powerful...
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