Goddess Crown
By (Author) Shade Lapite
Walker Books Ltd
Walker Books Ltd
1st September 2023
1st February 2024
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Fantasy
823.92
Paperback
304
Width 128mm, Height 197mm, Spine 10mm
270g
A YA feminist fantasy, full of romance, danger and courtly intrigue, from a dazzling debut writer.
For fans of Twin Crowns, and TikTok sensations The Woven Kingdom and To Kill a Kingdom.
Kalothia has grown up in the shadows of her kingdom, hidden away in the East after her parents were outed as enemies of the king. When assassins attack her home on her sixteenth birthday, she must flee to the kings court a beautiful but lethal nest of poison, plots and danger, overseen by an entrenched patriarchy. Can Kalothia navigate this most worldly of places to find her own role What if she must choose between her country and her heart
Shade Lapite is BritishNigerian and has drawn on her heritage to create the world of her debut novel. She spent a significant slice of her childhood nestled in the library, inhaling books by Diana Wynne Jones, Tamora Pierce, Lois Duncan and Mildred D Taylor. Her love for the arts led her to a degree in Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. She now lives in Toronto and juggles writing with her career in digital marketing. Her blog, Coffee Bookshelves, celebrates writing and promotes titles by authors of colour.