The beast, the queen, and the lost knight

The beast, the queen, and the lost knight

Alexandria Rogers

Book - 2023

"Best friends Ellie Bettlebump and Caedmon Tuggle are different as the day is long. Caedmon's a human, from a non-magical realm known as Wisconsin. Ellie, on the other hand, is full of magic--illegal magic. What they have in common is far more important, however. After the adventure of a lifetime, they are both officially Knights of the Round Table...in training. To graduate to the next level at the Knights Academy, they must complete three quests proving their heroism. If they fail, they'll have to achieve the dreaded Impossible Quest, and repeat the same year forever. Unfortunately, their quests prove more than a little difficult. Ellie is exposed as a witch and her magic is locked away by the powerful DeJoie family. In an ...effort to free herself from their control, Ellie winds up embroiled in a plan that could ruin the Knights of the Round Table: steal the source of the knights' power, and a wicked sorcerer will restore her magic. As fate would have it, one of Caedmon's quests leads him to protect the source of the knights' power. If Caedmon wants to graduate--not to mention save the realms from certain disaster--he'll have to betray his best friend, forcing him to choose what truly matters most to him: knighthood or friendship. As centuries of secrets collide and an ancient evil arises, Ellie and Caedmon must overcome this test of loyalty and friendship. If they don't, they will lose more than their battle against evil forces keeping them apart. They will lose each other" --

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Subjects
Knights and knighthood > Juvenile fiction.
Magic > Juvenile fiction.
Good and evil > Juvenile fiction.
Paranormal fiction.
Camelot (Legendary place) > Juvenile fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Novels.
Genres
Fantasy fiction
Novels
Published
New York : Little, Brown and Company 2023.
Language
English
Main Author
Alexandria Rogers (author)
Other Authors
Manuel Šumberac (illustrator), Keith Robinson, 1968-
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
467 pages ; 19 cm
Audience
Ages 8-12.
ISBN
9780316523509
Contents unavailable.
Review by Kirkus Book Review

Knights-in-training Caedmon Tuggle and Ellie Bettlebump return in this follow-up to 2022's The Witch, the Sword, and the Cursed Knights. Good friends Caedmon, 13, and Ellie, nearly 13, have been given their first quest: to protect a royal wedding. But when banished monsters break through the protective spells and Princess Lorelei, another friend and knight-in-training, erupts in unregistered witch magic, Ellie takes the fall. At her trial, a frustrated Ellie is fitted with a permanent collar that mutes her magic. She later discovers she has dangerous Chaos magic inside her. Ellie meets with the sorcerer Malgwyn, to whom she owes a blood debt, and he tells her to steal the sword Excalibur, which he can use to obtain "the jewel from the belly of the beast." Meanwhile, Caedmon is charged by the wizard Merlin to bring Lancelot back into the Knights of the Round Table, while Lancelot himself is after the same jewel. So begins the setup of this ambitious fantasy, which strives to pit the two friends against each other. There is imagination galore here, not to mention an abundance of mythical and legendary characters and a meaningful theme of loyalty to one's friends. However, the story needs a stronger foundation to support and strengthen the fundamentals of the plot, which include a dizzying number of ideas, tenuous connections, and conveniently timed appearances. An undeniably imaginative story in need of more cohesive execution. (map, list of realms) (Fantasy. 9-13) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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