pub date: April 19, 2022
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genre: fantasy | age: YA (12+)
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QUICK PITCH
Sofi has trained her entire life to inherit her father's position as the Kingdom of Aell's premiere lutenist and finally be allowed to play her original compositions publicly. But on the day of her auditions, she's bested by Lara, a girl who has never played the lute before. Unwilling to believe in Lara's inherit "talent," Sofi joins her rival on the road in hopes of exposing her illegal use of magic. Instead, Sofi learns impossible truths about her family, music, and herself.
*"That shiver returned, the hair on her arms standing at attention as Sofi coaxed sound from her instrument, notes ringing out soft and sincere in her small room. While sometimes the more familiar pieces of her training routine felt tedious, this part never got old: the playing. Piecing her words and her melodies together. Using her hands and her voice and her mind to create something entirely new, something that would not exist were it not for her.
When Sofi played, she had power."*
