Which one is happening shifts throughout the story and from narrator to narrator as characters other than Muna briefly lend their points of view. I love the book's overall tone, it has relentlessly upbeat feeling, a kind of optimism borne out of either not understanding how grave the danger might be or from understanding the risks and persevering anyway. Where SORCERER TO THE CROWN dealt specifically with racism and misogyny, THE TRUE QUEEN is more about misogyny and the particular combination of racism and xenophobia that is exoticism. THE TRUE QUEEN by Zen Cho introduces Muna, a young woman venturing to foreign Britain to obtain magical help in rescuing her vanished sister. Queer Rep Summary: Lesbian/Sapphic Main Character(s), Gay/Achillean Secondary Character(s). As she's drawn into their intrigues, she must uncover the secrets of her past, and journey into a world with more magic than she had ever dreamed. If Muna is to save her sister, she must learn to navigate high society, and trick the English magicians into believing she is a magical prodigy. The only hope of saving her is to go to distant Britain, where the Sorceress Royal has established an academy to train women in magic. They have been cursed by an unknown enchanter, and slowly Sakti starts to fade away. When sisters Muna and Sakti wake up on the peaceful beach of the island of Janda Baik, they can't remember anything, except that they are bound as only sisters can be.
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