A stunning debut from Nina Varela, Crier’s War is full of political intrigue, vibrant worldbuilding, and a slow-burn romance for the ages. Following the lives of Ayla and Crier, two girls on different sides of a species war, this book revives the rebel girl trope and amps it to levels of honesty and complexity YA rarely touches on. After the War of Kinds ravaged the kingdom of Rabu, the Automae, designed to be the playthings of royals, usurped their owners’ estates and bent the human race to their will. Now Ayla, a human servant rising in the ranks at the House of the Sovereign, dreams of avenging her family’s death…by killing the sovereign’s daughter, Lady Crier. Crier was Made to be beautiful, flawless, and to carry on her father’s legacy. But that was before her betrothal to the enigmatic Scyre Kinok, before she discovered her father isn’t the benevolent king she once admired, and most importantly, before she met Ayla. Now, with growing human unrest across the land, pressures ...
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