She claims that young prince Balthazar, rightful heir to the throne, survived. Ten years later, when the story proper begins, Finnikin of the Rock is an exile, about to follow a dream that will lead him to Evanjalin, a strange girl who can walk in the sleep of the people trapped inside Lumatere. Some scattered bands of Lumaterens escaped before the border closed. And so Seranonna, matriarch of the Forest Dwellers, cursed Lumatere as she burned at the stake.and soon its boarders were sealed with a wall of dark magic. During the ensuing chaos, the people of Lumatere turned on the Forest Dwellers, followers of a goddess many of their countrymen feared. In the five days of the Unspeakable, the royal family of his country, Lumatere, were assassinated. When Finnikin of the Rock people was nine years old, his world collapsed. Finnikin of the Rock, by Melina Marchetta (February 9, 2010, Candlewick, YA, 416 pp)
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