This book is a winner, and readers will be clamoring for the next installment.'-VOYA 'Kate Elliott's magic and mastery is better than ever.

Jessamy is an exciting protagonist: strong, quick witted, and smart. While highly entertaining and fresh, the novel also speaks to issues of gender, class strife, and identity. This book will not fail you.'-Gail Carriger, New York Times bestselling author of the Parasol Protectorate series and the Finishing School series 'Sure to garner a following of adventure and suspense fans. Jes is a killer protagonist, tough and capable, but also lost in her upbringing and faced with impossible choices that test her character and her beliefs. Kate Elliott combines everything I love best in a YA novel. This imaginative escape into enthralling new lands weaves an epic story of a girl struggling to do what she loves in a society suffocated by rules of class and privilege. When Kal's powerful, scheming uncle tears Jes's family apart, she'll have to test her new friend's loyalty and risk the vengeance of a royal clan to save her mother and sisters from certain death.

Then Jes meets Kalliarkos, and an improbably friendship between two Fives competitors-one of mixed race and the other a Patron boy-causes heads to turn. But away from her family she can be whomever she wants when she sneaks out to train for The Fives, an intricate, multilevel athletic competition that offers a chance for glory to the kingdom's best contenders. Now available in paperback, World Fantasy Award finalist Kate Elliott's first young adult novel was praised by Kirkus for its 'gripping, original plot vivid, complicated characters and layered, convincingly detailed world building.' Jessamy's life is a balance between acting like an upper-class Patron and dreaming of the freedom of the Commoners.

Court of Fives by Kate Elliott