Book profile
The Prison Healer
- Subgenre
- romantasy
- Edition year
- 2021
- Rating
- ★ 4.1 · 295 ratingsExternal reader rating · Hardcover
- Spice
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This story centers on a resilient teen prison healer, leaning into strong-heroine and sacrifice tropes as she risks her life to take the place of a captured Rebel Queen in an unbeaten elemental tournament, with undercurrents of angst as she faces a brewing prison rebellion, a spreading incurable plague, and a mysterious new romantic interest, all while aligning with the queen’s anti-crown cause.
Reading order
Book 1 of 3 in The Prison Healer — see the full reading order →
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- Strong Heroine: “Seventeen-year-old Kiva Meridan has spent the last ten years fighting for survival in the notorious death prison, Zalindov, working as the prison healer.” source
- Sacrifice: “Aware that the Trials will kill the sickly queen, Kiva risks her own life to volunteer in her place.” source
- Tournament: “a series of elemental challenges against the torments of air, fire, water, and earth, assigned to only the most dangerous of criminals.” source
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