The release date for the English version of 'Bitterblue' by
Kristin Cashore is May 2012. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
It has been eight years since the ferocious King Leck spared the young Princess Bitterblue and her nation. Currently, Monsea is ruled by Bitterblue, and her realm is peaceful.
However, her father—a violent psychopath with the capacity to change people's minds—continues to have an impact. Since Leck's death, her advisors have guided the nation on her behalf, and they have a progressive agenda that calls for forgiving everyone who did horrible deeds during Leck's rule and erasing any painful memories. Monsea's background has become a mystery; she doesn't grasp the truth until Bitterblue starts to slip out of her castle by herself, disguised, and intrigued, and explore her own city. After a thirty-five-year-long madman's spell on her realm, their only hope to go ahead is to go back in time.
Whatever that past holds.
Her life is irrevocably altered by two robbers who have vowed to take nothing except what has already been taken. They are the key to unlocking Leck's reign's truth. And one of them, the one with the unnamed Grace, could also have the key to her heart...