Lady Hotspur
Readers rate it 3.3 (3 on Hardcover)
713 pages · Released Jan 7, 2020 · Macmillan + ORM
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Lady Hotspur is a Shakespearean-inspired fantasy with substantial political intrigue, battlefield violence, and complex LGBTQ+ relationships at its core. The novel explores themes of loyalty, duty, and sacrifice through the lens of three compelling female protagonists caught in a civil war. While violence and mature emotional/romantic content are present, the story emphasizes character growth and moral complexity rather than graphic depiction. This is solidly upper YA, best suited for readers comfortable with political stakes, same-sex romance, and the emotional weight of war.
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Tessa Gratton's Lady Hotspur is a sweeping, heart-stopping Shakespearean novel of betrayal and battlefields and destiny. STRIKE FAST, LOVE HARD, LIVE FOREVER This is the motto of the Lady Knights—sworn to fealty under a struggling kingdom, promised to defend the prospective heir, Banna Mora. But when a fearsome rebelli... Tessa Gratton's Lady Hotspur is a sweeping, heart-stopping Shakespearean novel of betrayal and battlefields and destiny. STRIKE FAST, LOVE HARD, LIVE FOREVER This is the motto of the Lady Knights—sworn to fealty under a struggling kingdom, promised to defend the prospective heir, Banna Mora. But when a fearsome rebellion overthrows the throne, Mora is faced with an agonizing choice: give up everything she's been raised to love, and allow a king-killer to be rewarded—or retake the throne, and take up arms against the newest heir, Hal Bolingbrooke, Mora's own childhood best friend and sworn head of the Lady Knights. Hal loathes being a Prince; she's much more comfortable instated on the Throne of Misrule, a raucous underground nether-court where passion rules all. She yearns to live up to the wishes of everyone she loves best—but that means sacrificing her own heart, and so she will disappoint everyone until the moment she can rise to prove those expectations wrong. And between these two fierce Princes is the woman who will decide all their fates—Lady Hotspur, the fiery and bold knight whose support will turn the tides of the coming war. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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- Fiction
- LGBTQ
- Fantasy
- Young Adult
- Adventure
- Science Fiction
- Magic
- Fantasy fiction.
- Kings and rulers--Fiction.
- American literature
- Fiction, fantasy, historical
- Kings and rulers
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ISBN 9780765392510 · Macmillan + ORM