Yet her triumphant moment of mythical destiny fulfillment is undercut by people who look at her-blue hair and magical Talent over animals notwithstanding-and do not see a queen. Almost every person in her life knows her by a different name: Wren, Kestrel, Finch, Skylark-past lifetimes that she acknowledges as she prepares to take back the Nargis Throne: “Though I have gone by many names, I herewith claim back my true identity.” Never mind that Cerúlia has already answered this question, by admitting that she has spent the last thirteen years in hiding-as a humble farm girl, yes, but also as a soldier in scholar-turned-war-hero Thalen’s Raiders, and every working-class job in-between. Within the first fifty pages of Sarah Kozloff’s The Cerulean Queen, rightful heir Cerúlia has regained her lost throne and identified herself as Weirandale’s long-awaited queen-only for one of her subjects to immediately yell, “But yesterday, you was a village gal from Wyndton.” Another chimes in: “If you’re the queen, where have you been all these years?” Warning: While this article doesn’t contain Cerulean Queen spoilers, it does discuss plot details from the first three books in the Nine Realms series: A Queen in Hiding, The Queen of Raiders, and A Broken Queen.
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