Chant and Crown by Jordan McMakin
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

“[H]ard to put down…. A thoroughly engrossing saga…. Highly recommended for teen to new adult readers for its depth of psychological drama and entwined relationships.”
—Midwest Book Review (D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer)

“McMakin presents a complex look at sibling relations that gradually unfolds as a dark fantasy thriller...satisfyingly nuanced characters...the otherworldly Chants and their minions are fantastic...a fine tale of royalty featuring tempestuous emotion and deep, dark magic.”
—Kirkus Reviews

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Releasing Fall 2020

The Kingdoms of Trestlewen 
have feared the exiled magic people 
known as Chants for centuries. 
16-year-old Prince Aylan and his brother Ezrick 
are their next victims. 

And it will cost them far more than their lives.

When Ezrick is nearly killed in a vicious Chaηt attack on their kingdom, the estranged brothers are forced to confront their issues with each other, forging a volatile bond between love and pain. What follows is an intense coming-of-age wrought with rule‑breaking, forbidden friendships, and romance straying dangerously out of bounds. Darkness is falling. Chaηt war is on the horizon, and secrets of the brothers’ past have returned to haunt them. Soon a troubling discovery has them lying to their own court, for reasons behind the attack are far graver than the courtiers believe. Ezrick and Aylan are more alone than ever, and it’s only a matter of time before everything goes wrong. Because the very thing which brought them together, will destroy their entire world.