Black Shield Maiden
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Willow Smith. (2024). Black Shield Maiden. Random House Worlds.

Willow Smith. 2024. Black Shield Maiden. Random House Worlds.

Willow Smith, Black Shield Maiden. Random House Worlds, 2024.

Willow Smith. Black Shield Maiden. Random House Worlds, 2024.

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     Jess Hendel is a writer based in Los Angeles. She received her MFA in writing for screen and television from the University of Southern California and her BA in sociology from Amherst College.
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From Willow Smith and Jess Hendel comes a powerful and groundbreaking historical saga about an African warrior in the world of the Vikings.
“Intimate, tender, and fiercely epic.”—Tomi Adeyemi, author of Children of Blood and Bone
Lore, legend, and history tell us of the Vikings: warrior kings on epic journeys of conquest and plunder. But the stories we know are not the only stories to tell. There is another story, one that has been lost to the mists of time: the saga of the dark queen.
This saga begins with Yafeu, a defiant yet fiercely compassionate young warrior who is stolen from her home in the flourishing Ghānaian empire and taken to a distant kingdom in the North. There she is thrust into a strange, cold world of savage shield maidens, tyrannical rulers, and mysterious gods.
And there she also finds something unexpected: a kindred spirit. She comes to serve Freydis, a shy princess who couldn’t be more different from the confident and self-possessed Yafeu.
But they both want the same thing: to forge their own fate. Yafeu inspires Freydis to dream of a future greater than the one that the king and queen have forced upon her. And with the princess at her side, Yafeu learns to navigate this new world and grows increasingly determined to become one of the legendary shield maidens—to fight not only for her freedom but for the freedom of others.
Yafeu may have lost her home, but she still knows who she is, and she’s not afraid to be the flame that burns a city to the ground so a new world can rise from the ashes. She will alter the course of history—and become the revolutionary heroine of her own myth.

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     December 1, 2023
     

     Singer/songwriter Smith and cowriter Hendel launch an epic trilogy set during the age of the Vikings and featuring fierce African warrior Yafeu, who is taken from her home in the Ghanaian Empire and brought north. There she decides to become a shield maiden and fight for freedom. Prepub Alert.

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     March 4, 2024
     Singer-actor Smith and screenwriter Hendel debut with a sweeping historical fantasy epic combining African and Nordic lore. In Ghana, heroine Yafeu, named for her now absent father and taught by him—as a boy would have been—that “belief is power,” accepts her tutelary spirit, a painted wolf, just before her village is razed and she’s abducted by slavers. After a horrendous desert journey, she’s rescued by a ferocious female Viking and brought as a slave to a pagan Norse village where she despairs of ever achieving the great destiny her mother predicted for her. Eventually she becomes a servant to Freydis, the local king’s daughter. As the women grow close and share their African and Norse heritages, they see in the blend of their two cultures a path to overthrowing their barbaric male-dominated society. Though ambitiously loaded with snippets of Scandinavian and African history and mythology shaped to the authors’ feminist orientation, the story does not quite convince. Little anachronisms (a warrior dressed in plate armor rather than ring mail) will throw off the historically minded, while cartoonish male villains weaken the empowerment plot. Still, fans of Norse fantasy frustrated with the genre’s overwhelming whiteness will appreciate this refreshing take on the milieu.

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     March 1, 2024
     Smith's debut, written with Jess Hendel, is a sprawling historical epic spanning continents and cultures. Yafeu is a headstrong young woman from the empire Wagadu who loves working at the forge and hunting. Her father has left their family to explore and she anxiously awaits his return. Captured by slavers, Yafeu is saved by a female warrior named Alvtir, who takes her across the ocean to Skiringssal. Everything about Yafeu's new home--the cold, the language, the people--is unfamiliar. When Princess Freydis, a young woman with her own royal ambitions, takes Yafeu as a slave, the two women realize they have plenty in common. Together they hope to rise above their stations and achieve their personal freedom. The authors researched what life was like in the Ghana Empire and medieval Norway to accurately portray our heroines' lives. Yafeu and Freydis have a unique voice and perspective, and readers will enjoy learning about their cultures. The many fight scenes are exciting and balance well with the moments of exploration and mythology. Recommended for fans of underrepresented fantasy settings, like the works of Nnedi Okorafor or R. F. Kuang. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Smith is a big name in pop culture, and there's a lot of buzz surrounding her debut fantasy novel.

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     May 24, 2024
     

     DEBUT Young Yafeu, enslaved when her desert village is raided, follows the woman warrior who saved her onto a dragon ship headed for the Norse fjords. Yafeu hopes to become a warrior like her savior but instead seems fated for life as a thrall far from home. Her life changes again when she is sent to guard a princess whose destiny becomes entwined with her own and the woman Viking who guides and mentors them both onto a path leading to regicide, revolution, and powerful allies in the fight to prevent Ragnarok and preserve a new way of life. Yafeu's journey, like that of Ejii Ugabe in Nnedi Okorafor's Shadow Speaker, is the story of a young woman who must step out of the narrow space defined for the women of her homeland and go far beyond the horizon to fulfill a big destiny, although Yafeu's journey of coming of age and into power is set far back in history during the Viking era. VERDICT This debut from singer/songwriter/activist Smith and screenwriter Hendel is recommended for readers of alternate and fantasy history in which women seize power and hold it in spite of the forces arrayed against them.--Marlene Harris

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“Intimate, tender, and fiercely epic.”—Tomi Adeyemi, author of Children of Blood and Bone
Lore, legend, and history tell us of the Vikings: warrior kings on epic journeys of conquest and plunder. But the stories we know are not the only stories to tell. There is another story, one that has been lost to the mists of time: the saga of the dark queen.
This saga begins with Yafeu, a defiant yet fiercely compassionate young warrior who is stolen from her home in the flourishing Ghānaian empire and taken to a distant kingdom in the North. There she is thrust into a strange, cold world of savage shield maidens, tyrannical rulers, and mysterious gods.
And there she also finds something unexpected: a kindred spirit. She comes to serve Freydis, a shy princess who couldn’t be more...

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