Books On Our Radar: Among the Beasts & Briars by Ashley Poston

Among the Beasts & Briars by Ashley Poston has one of those covers you just want to stare at and it embodies such a royal and yet vintage feel! I love the embroidery look and feel! Whenever I see embroidered cover art, I pretty much insta-buy, but luckily I have a feeling I am going to love this story because I love Ashley’s other books! Among the Beasts & Briars is releasing this fall on October 20th, and I can’t wait to cozy up with a warm spiced drink and get lost in this fantasy!

Among the Beasts & Briars

by Ashley Poston
Published by: Balzer + Bray
on October 20, 2020
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy
Pages: 352
Audible
Goodreads

Cerys is safe in the kingdom of Aloriya.

Here there are no droughts, disease, or famine, and peace is everlasting. It has been this way for hundreds of years, since the first king made a bargain with the Lady who ruled the forest that borders the kingdom. But as Aloriya prospered, the woods grew dark, cursed, and forbidden. Cerys knows this all too well: when she was young, she barely escaped as the woods killed her friends and her mother. Now Cerys carries a small bit of the curse—the magic—in her blood, a reminder of the day she lost everything. The most danger she faces now, as a gardener’s daughter, is the annoying fox who stalks the royal gardens and won’t leave her alone.

As a new queen is crowned, however, things long hidden in the woods descend on the kingdom itself. Cerys is forced on the run, her only companions the small fox from the garden, a strange and powerful bear, and the magic in her veins. It’s up to her to find the legendary Lady of the Wilds and beg for a way to save her home. But the road is darker and more dangerous than she knows, and as secrets from the past are uncovered amid the teeth and roots of the forest, it’s going to take everything she has just to survive.

.