Robin McKinley

Harry, bored with her sheltered life in the remote orange-growing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped by a native king with mysterious powers.

The Blue Sword

Christina Elizabeth Croxell

This is my feel good book.  I have read it many times, and it holds up every time.  A female lead desert adventure.

akshaya

What a delightful read! It’s been a long time since I’ve read a good classic-style fantasy book. The slow pace was so soothing, yet the magic of Damar kept me engaged. Sometimes it’s nice to just curl up under the blankets and watch a Chosen One become a legend. I’m so glad this isn’t the end of the Damar books and I can’t wait to return to this series! 

Toni Turner

I had a splendid time reading this alongside the audiobook which was a treat! Bless Diane Warren. I do not know the woman, but her voice is probably my favorite voice in the entire world! 

Also this book was a treat and I loved every second. So much fun and so beautiful written with the use of language I enjoy. I love Harry forever and I wish I could learn about her entire life and that Diane would read it to me haha

A Newbery Honor Book and a modern classic of young adult fantasy, The Blue Sword introduces the desert kingdom of Damar, where magic weaves through the blood and weaves together destinies. New York Times–bestselling and award-winning author Robin McKinley sets the standard for epic fantasy and compelling, complex heroines. Fans of Sarah J. Maas, Leigh Bardugo, and Rae Carson will delight in discovering the rich world of Damar. Harry Crewe is a Homelander orphan girl, come to live in Damar from over the seas. She is drawn to the bleak landscape, so unlike the green hills of her Homeland. She wishes she might cross the sands and climb the dark mountains where no Homelander has ever set foot, where the last of the old Damarians, the Free Hillfolk, live. Corlath is the golden-eyed king of the Free Hillfolk, son of the sons of the legendary Lady Aerin. When he arrives in Harry’s town to ally with the Homelanders against a common enemy, he never expects to set Harry’s destiny in motion: She will ride into battle as a King’s Rider, bearing the Blue Sword, the great mythical treasure, which no one has wielded since Lady Aerin herself. Legends and myths, no matter how epic, no matter how magical, all begin somewhere.

Madi Van Houten

Kidnapped by the King of the Hillfolk, a girl grows to love her life and rises to be guardian of the Blue Sword.

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Dr Seth Jones

Nora 

Hope Gamble

Vilandra

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Aditi

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Gabrielle Navarro

Christine LuBean

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When Harry Crewe's father dies, she leaves her Homeland to travel east, to Istan, the last outpost of the Homelander empire, where her elder brother is stationed. Harry is drawn to the bleak landscape of the northeast frontier, so unlike the green hills of her Homeland. The desert she stares across was once a part of the great kingdom of Damar, before the Homelanders came from over the seas. Harry wishes she might cross the sands and climb the dark mountains where no Homelander has ever set foot, where the last of the old Damarians, the Free Hillfolk, still live. She hears stories that the Free Hillfolk possess strange powers -- that they work magic -- that it is because of this that they remain free of the Homelander sway. When the king of the Free Hillfolk comes to Istan to ask that the Homelanders and the Hillfolk set their enmity aside to fight a common foe, the Homelanders are reluctant to trust his word, and even more reluctant to believe his tales of the Northerners: that they are demonkind, not human. Harry's destiny lies in the far mountains that she once wished to climb, and she will ride to the battle with the North in the Hill-king's army, bearing the Blue Sword, Gonturan, the chiefest treasure of the Hill-king's house and the subject of many legends of magic and mystery.

The Blue Sword

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