Having grown up without magic (nor knowledge of magic) in East Row, Texas, she was very well equipped for the issues she’d find in The Capital and Ghizon. If you didn’t meet Rue in Wings of Ebony, she is strong-willed, fiercely loyal to her natural and chosen families, and always puts others needs before her own. This chapter is tough on your heart as a reader because we know that she’s shouldering too much on her own. Naturally, she feels like she has to take on this fight alone, to save them all. Rue is the only person of Ghizon to hold the ancestors magic. He wants it all, every last drop of magic. The Chancellor has already stolen their land, their magic, and much of their culture, and it’s not enough. Rue is on the front lines of a pending fight against the Chancellor and the “grays”. It is Immediately clear from page one of Ashes of Gold, that J. When a betrayal sends her into a tailspin, Rue must decide who to trust and how to be the leader that her people deserve…because if she doesn’t, it isn’t just Yiyo that will be destroyed-it will be Rue herself. Yet even on Yiyo Peak, Rue is a misfit-with half a foot back in Houston and half a heart that is human as well as god, she’s not sure she’s the right person to lead the fight to reclaim a glorious past. When she finds them again, Rue makes a vow: she will find a way to return the magic that the Chancellor has stolen from her father’s people. Girls from the East Row break themselves out.īut reuniting with her friends is only half the battle. Girls from the East Row pick themselves back up when they fall.

And girls from the East Row don’t give up.

Rue has no memory of how she ended up locked in a basement prison without her magic or her allies. In the heart-pounding conclusion to the Wings of Ebony duology, which #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicole Yoon calls “bold, inventive, big-hearted and deeply perceptive,” Rue makes her final stand to reclaim her people’s stolen magic.

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