Lots of purple can mean only one thing - I like it. Throw some unicorn magic and count me in.
I like the cover. True, the girl looks more like an animated character than a real person, but who cares? It's pretty.
BOOK DETAILS:
The Lost Kingdom by Stephanie Beerden
(The Elements Series #1)
Publication date: May 28th 2014
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult
Synopsis:
A Prophecy made long ago, announced the arrival of the new Ladies of Elements.
And now almost a millennia later, it finally came true …
All her life Arima thought she knew who and what she was. That is
until the day of her sixteenth birthday came and her world is turned
upside down, when she’s told she’s not a White Witch but Lady Spirit.
And that she is the one that has been foretold, will unite the Five
Ladies of Elements once again and save Ilendia and the Other Lands from
Ahriman, the Demon King.
At first Arima refuses to accept her new fate, but when Shanums come and destroy her village and kill her loved ones, she has no choice but to flee and fall right into the destiny she never wanted.
As she grudgingly starts her journey into the unknown, she is accompanied by her unicorn familiar Sirrim, Blythe, a Vampire with a dark past and Myrddin, a mysterious Ljosalfar.
And the longer her journey lasts, the more Arima begins to realise that she can’t escape her own destiny and she must learn to control her powers and learn to be a Lady for the sake of the Sisters she doesn’t know and the people of Ilendia and the Other Lands.
However, things get more complicated when Arima comes into the possession of a key. Her instincts compel her to go towards danger when she discovers that the key she holds, can unlock the legendary kingdom of Eléssima, the home of the Ladies of Elements.
She will have to make the choice to follow her instincts …
…or stay on the path that has been laid out for her.
And now almost a millennia later, it finally came true …
All her life Arima thought she knew who and what she was. That is
until the day of her sixteenth birthday came and her world is turned
upside down, when she’s told she’s not a White Witch but Lady Spirit.
And that she is the one that has been foretold, will unite the Five
Ladies of Elements once again and save Ilendia and the Other Lands from
Ahriman, the Demon King.At first Arima refuses to accept her new fate, but when Shanums come and destroy her village and kill her loved ones, she has no choice but to flee and fall right into the destiny she never wanted.
As she grudgingly starts her journey into the unknown, she is accompanied by her unicorn familiar Sirrim, Blythe, a Vampire with a dark past and Myrddin, a mysterious Ljosalfar.
And the longer her journey lasts, the more Arima begins to realise that she can’t escape her own destiny and she must learn to control her powers and learn to be a Lady for the sake of the Sisters she doesn’t know and the people of Ilendia and the Other Lands.
However, things get more complicated when Arima comes into the possession of a key. Her instincts compel her to go towards danger when she discovers that the key she holds, can unlock the legendary kingdom of Eléssima, the home of the Ladies of Elements.
She will have to make the choice to follow her instincts …
…or stay on the path that has been laid out for her.
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AUTHOR INFORMATION:
Stephanie Beerden was born on Friday
the 13th (no joke, she really was) in a small city called Genk and has
always been fascinated with the occult, magic and books. Her childhood
and teen years were filled with reading lots and lots of books and
imagining what life would be like as a Vampire. Until one day
she decided that she wanted to try her hand at writing her own books
and that was the beginning of her writing adventure.Her first book is a YA Fantasy called De Elementen – Het Verloren Koninkrijk and after many, many trials and tribulations, one small Dutch Publisher, named Jaylen Books decided “Hey, let’s give this girl a shot”. Her second book De Elementen – Archandir has recently been published by same publisher and she couldn’t be happier about that.
Stephanie hopes to keep writing as long as she can and already has several writing projects in the works for the future.
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