“Power is madness; weakness is reason; the rest is void.”I live peacefully in a world of perfect lies, a land of opposites where the sun never sets and war is peace. Our leader, Lucis, banned all firearms and banished his brother, Noctis, to a lifeless desert known as the Void Valley long ago. Now Lucis recruits our firstborns to battle Noctis’s army of shadows with swords and arrows. Once they turn twenty-five, off the firstborns go to protect the only truth they know... more“Power is madness; weakness is reason; the rest is void.”I live peacefully in a world of perfect lies, a land of opposites where the sun never sets and war is peace. Our leader, Lucis, banned all firearms and banished his brother, Noctis, to a lifeless desert known as the Void Valley long ago. Now Lucis recruits our firstborns to battle Noctis’s army of shadows with swords and arrows. Once they turn twenty-five, off the firstborns go to protect the only truth they know.Lucky for me, I’m the second child. My beloved brother Osric is soon to leave for the Four Lucis Rings to begin his training for the battlefield instead. But my luck is about to run out. When Osric’s mysterious death leaves me heartbroken and furious, Lucis arrives to deliver some more world-shattering I must take my brother’s place on the front lines, the newest—and youngest—recruit in the Lucis Army.Drowning in emotions, the last place on this land I want to be is at the Four Lucis Rings learning about a whole new world of swords and elixirs, loss and betrayal, and suspicion. Taken under the wing of an oddball group of fast friends, and the brooding eyes of a dark, enigmatic roommate whose attention heats my blood, I’m soon distracted from the heartache of missing home.Until a chain of menacing letters, appearing unannounced, threatens everything I've been raised to believe.All I know for sure is that I’ve been sent here to protect Lucis. Because it’s my duty as a resident of his land.But as a sister? My duty is to seek revenge. less
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