Mask of Shadows
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Publication Year
2017
ISBN
9781492647492
Pages
345 pages
Genre
science fiction
Format
novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Sallot Leon is a thief, and a good one at that. But gender fluid Sal wants nothing more than to escape the drudgery of life as a highway robber and get closer to the upper-class, and to the nobles who destroyed their home. When Sal steals a flyer for an audition to become a member of The Left Hand -- the Queen's personal assassins, named after the rings she wears -- Sal jumps at the chance to infiltrate the court and get revenge. But the audition is a fight to the death filled with clever circus acrobats, lethal apothecaries, and vicious ex-soldiers. A childhood as a common criminal hardly prepared Sal for the trials. And as Sal succeeds in the competition, and wins the heart of Elise, an intriguing scribe at court, they start to dream of a new life and a different future, but one that Sal can have only if they survive.
Grade Level
9-12
Lexile Measure
HL690L
Diversity Topics
LGBTQ (Gender and Sexuality); Androgyny; Gay/Lesbian; Gender nonconformity; gender fluid; gender variance; queer
Main Character
female teenager
Keywords
kingdom; Queen; violence; assassin; love; war; death; battle
Diversity Impact
indirect
STARS Citation
Miller, Linsey, "Mask of Shadows" (2017). Diverse Families. 2145.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/2145