Bøger af Melissa Grey

Two teen vigilantes set off on an action-packed investigation to expose corruption and deliver justice in Valiant Ladies, Melissa Grey's YA historical fiction novel inspired by real seventeenth century Latinx teenagers known as the Valiant Ladies of Potosí. By day Eustaquia "Kiki" de Sonza and Ana Lezama de Urinza are proper young seventeenth century ladies. But when night falls, they trade in their silks and lace for swords and muskets, venturing out into the vibrant, bustling, crime-ridden streets of Potosí, in the Spanish Empire's Viceroyalty of Peru. They pass their time fighting, gambling, and falling desperately in love with one another.Then, on the night Kiki's engagement to the Viceroy's son is announced, her older brother-heir to her family's fortune-is murdered. The girls immediately embark on a whirlwind investigation that takes them from the lowliest brothels of Potosí to the highest echelons of the Spanish aristocracy.

Two teen vigilantes set off on an action-packed investigation to expose corruption and deliver justice in Valiant Ladies, Melissa Grey's YA historical fiction novel inspired by real seventeenth century Latinx teenagers known as the Valiant Ladies of Potosí. By day Eustaquia "Kiki" de Sonza and Ana Lezama de Urinza are proper young seventeenth century ladies. But when night falls, they trade in their silks and lace for swords and muskets, venturing out into the vibrant, bustling, crime-ridden streets of Potosí in the Spanish Empire's Viceroyalty of Peru. They pass their time fighting, gambling, and falling desperately in love with one another.Then, on the night Kiki's engagement to the Viceroy's son is announced, her older brother-heir to her family's fortune-is murdered. The girls immediately embark on a whirlwind investigation that takes them from the lowliest brothels of Potosí to the highest echelons of the Spanish aristocracy.Praise for Valiant Ladies: "Ana and Kiki are the sword lesbians of my dreams. This is the queer Latina historical fantasy you didn't know you wanted until you got it-and then you'll want more." -Sam Maggs, author of The Unstoppable Wasp: Built on Hope"Grey's actionpacked love story offers a fresher, more nuanced take on The Three Musketeers, with a fastpaced plot and well-developed characters... Kiki and Ana are not the traditional demure ladies that swoon at the slightest provocation of violence; rather, they are the vigilante heroines that every patriarchy needs." -- Booklist, starred review"Valiant Ladies brings the remarkable lives of two forgotten women to vivid, riotous life. Delightfully ahistorical, terribly romantic (have you ever shipped sword lesbians harder??), and all steeped in vigilante justice hell-bent on taking down a violent patriarchy-there's only one word for it: badass." -Mackenzi Lee, author of the New York Times-bestselling The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“En fabelagtig afslutning på en fantastisk serie, som jeg bare må have mere af!” – GOODREADS“ En fantasybog med en masse spænding og kærlighed og et univers, som byder på nogle spændende væsner.” – DE UNGES ORD Echo har vækket ildfuglen og er nu den eneste, der er i stand til at stå op imod det mørke, som hun ufrivilligt har sluppet løs … og sendt direkte i hænderne på Tanith, den nye Drageprins. Tanith har kun ét mål: at tilintetgøre sine fjender, udslette verden og herske over den nye verden, hvor drakharianerne er enevældige og avicenerne kun et minde fra en svunden tid. Krigen, som har ulmet i århundreder, er nu nært forestående. Men balancen er tippet. Echo har måske styrken til at nedkæmpe Drageprinsens mørke, men hun er endnu langt fra at kunne kontrollere den. Og nu plages hun af usikkerhed. Er hun stærk nok til at se ondskaben i øjnene uden at fortabe sig i dens dybder? Krigen er i gang, og der er ingen vej tilbage. Fra nu af er der kun to muligheder: Sejr eller død! TREDJE OG SIDSTE BOG I SERIEN "FJER OG FLAMMER". MELISSA GREY skrev sin første bog, da hun var 12 år – og har skrevet lige siden. Efter sin uddannelse på Yale University har hun rejst verden rundt. I dag arbejder hun som journalist i New York. Læs mere på www.melissa-grey.com.

Beneath the streets of New York City live the Avicen, an ancient race of people with feathers for hair and magic running through their veins. Age-old enchantments keep them hidden from humans. All but one. Echo is a runaway pickpocket who survives by selling stolen treasures on the black market, and the Avicen are the only family she's ever known.Echo is clever and daring, and at times she can be brash, but above all else she's fiercely loyal. So when a centuries-old war crests on the borders of her home, she decides it's time to act.Legend has it that there is a way to end the conflict once and for all: find the Firebird, a mythical entity believed to possess power the likes of which the world has never seen. It will be no easy task, but if life as a thief has taught Echo anything, it's how to hunt down what she wants . . . and how to take it.But some jobs aren't as straightforward as they seem. And this one might just set the world on fire.

The sides have been chosen and the battle lines drawn: the war has begun... Follow Echo into the final book in the much-loved GIRL AT MIDNIGHT trilogy'Inventive, gorgeous, and epic - Grey dazzles in her debut' - Danielle Paige, New York Times bestselling author of Dorothy Must Die, on The Girl at Midnight

Everything in Echo's life changed in a blinding flash when she learned the startling truth: she is the firebird, the creature of light that is said to bring peace.The firebird has come into the world, but it has not come alone. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, and Echo can feel a great and terrible darkness rising in the distance. Cosmic forces threaten to tear the world apart.Echo has already lost her home, her family, and her boyfriend. Now, as the firebird, her path is filled with even greater dangers than the ones she's already overcome.She knows the Dragon Prince will not fall without a fight.Echo must decide: can she wield the power of her true nature - or will it prove too strong for her, and burn what's left of her world to the ground? Welcome to the shadow hour.

Alt i Echos liv ændrer sig med ét, da den overvældende sandhed går op for hende: Hun er ildfuglen - der ifølge profetien skal bringe lys og fred. Men sammen med ildfuglen kom også en anden kosmisk kræft ind i verden, og Echo fornemmer et forfærdeligt mørke rejse sig, et mørke, hvis skygger rækker og strækker sig efter hende ... Echo har allerede mistet sit hjem, sin familie og sin kæreste - men et liv som ildfugl viser sig hurtigt at kræve endnu større ofre og bringe alle omkring hende i fare. Mens Echo kæmper for at tøjle sin sande natur, arbejder Caius' søster, Drageprinsen, på den fuldstændige udryddelse af avicenerne. Drageprinsens planer bringer hende faretruende tæt på mørket og dets almægtige kræfter ...

Skjult under New Yorks gader lever avicenerne, et folk med fjer i stedet for hår og stærk magi i blodet. De er den eneste familie, som Echo – en 17-årig menneskepige og glimtvis virtuos tyv – nogensinde har kendt. Avicenerne har været i krig med ildfolket drakharianerne siden tidernes morgen. Da Echo hører nyt om en legendarisk ildfugl, der ifølge myten kan skabe fred, ender hun i spidsen af en broget flok lovløse, soldater og andre forvirrede sjæle, som vil finde fuglen, inden krigen ender med at brænde deres verden ned …Midnatspigen er første bog i serien "Fjer og flammer".“En fantasybog med en masse spænding og kærlighed og et univers, som byder på nogle spændende væsner.” – DE UNGES ORDMELISSA GREY skrev sin første bog, da hun var 12 år – og har skrevet lige siden. Efter sin uddannelse på Yale University har hun rejst verden rundt. I dag arbejder hun som journalist i New York.Læs mere på www.melissa-grey.com.