What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
This topic is about
Close Kin
SOLVED: Children's/YA
>
SOLVED. YA Fantasy. Female elf scars her face with a broken mirror/glass right before her wedding ceremony so she doesn't have to be married (/too ugly to wed). [s]
date
newest »
newest »
I might have found it anyway - The Hollow Kingdom trilogy by Clare B. Dunkle? The first book is also called The Hollow Kingdom.
Books mentioned in this topic
Close Kin (other topics)The Hollow Kingdom (other topics)




It followed more than one individual throughout the story (the female elf, a female human and her "outsider" friend/crush a male elf, a troll/orc colony (?), and I believe one other. All the characters stories eventually meet up.
What I remember is that she is in her little chamber right before her wedding and, I can't remember for what reason (he's a narcissist, horrible person, or what) does absolutely NOT wish to get married (I think it was a political marriage). So, she breaks her mirror (or something) and cuts her face multiple times -- beauty is everything in the eyes of elves apparently and, if she makes herself disfigured, then she will be too ugly to wed. The attendant enters and freaks out.
What I remember later is that the a troll/orc/"beast" kidnaps (??? Saves???) Her and while she's unconscious, heals her scars (thinking he's doing her a favor, buts obviously she is less then thrilled and terrified that he's going to force her to marry, etc).
Those two dorks fall into interspecies love and I THINK get bonded near the end??? (And POSSIBLY tested for magic??????)