![]() In addition to her inspiration from The Dark is Rising, Deonn shared that she wanted to explore the way legacy is treated in the US. They recruit and operate by hiding in plain sight because we all accept that secret societies exist and we accept that we, the general public, won’t ever know all of their practices.” “Secret societies are a great cover for very old, generations of power. ![]() “ realized the answer seemed very clear here in the US the round table would embed themselves into a secret society somehow!” Deonn said. So Deonn explored something similar, only her story is set in the US, not the UK. Oh, and Legendborn is a modern take on the King Arthur legend, set at the University of North Carolina (UNC).ĭeonn told We Need Diverse Books she took some inspiration from Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising series in reimagining King Arthur’s mythos, saying that series treats the legends as truth but raises the question of what they would look like today. ![]() Tracy Deonn is the debut author of the Fall 2020 Indie Next Pick Legendborn, a YA fantasy about a Black girl in North Carolina who, after the loss of her mother, must infiltrate the ancient secret society she believes holds the key to her mother’s death. ![]()
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