High up the cliffs of Mount Eskel lives a fourteen year old girl named Miri. There on Mount Eskel her family has worked for centuries in the linder quarry pounding out linder to trade for goods and food. Miri has dreamed of working beside her father, sister, and friends- but her father forbids her to set foot in the quarry. She doesn’t know why.
Then word comes from a lowlanders’ priest that Mount Eskel will be the location of the next princess. So Miri heads off to an academy with most of the other teenage girls in the village to learn how to be a lady. At the academy she struggles with her own self doubts, her criteria, the older girls, and her own friends. She also makes a genuine friend from the lowlands and makes discoveries to help her village with their struggles.
But someone else is on their way with their own rules and punishments: make them mad... you die.
This book sucked me up and dropped me off at Mount Eskel. It was like there was a movie playing inside my head and I was never bored. Every twist and turn is so unexpected it leaves you breathless. I recommend this book to every girl. It is written exquisitely, just waiting for you to pick it up.
Reviewed by: DancingPenguin96
