Petra Lord’s Queen of Faces is a Page-Turner Full of Secrets and Magic

Petra Lord’s *Queen of Faces* is a dark academia YA novel set in a world of deceit, secrets, and magic. The main character, Annabelle Gage, is dying and hopes to gain acceptance into Paragon Academy. If accepted, she would have access to a new body to swap into. After a rejection, she is offered a choice: face execution, or become a mercenary to take down the Black Wraith. Annabelle relies on her own magic, a mysterious boy named Wes, rebel outcasts, and her undercover work to fulfill her mission. Annabelle, Wes, and their allies must decide what’s more important: their original reasons to fight the Black Wraith, or protecting the little family they’ve made.

• Queen of Faces is a book that rides or dies with its characters.
• By tying together a fantastical dark academia page-turner with a world of deceit, secrets, and magic, Queen of Faces feels like a return to form but with the diversity we sorely lacked in the late ’00s and early 2010s.
• If she can get there, she wouldn’t just have stability in her life—she’d have access to a brand new body to swap to.

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