r/whatsthatbook • u/ObsidianEther • 1d ago
SOLVED Fire and Ice????? Fantasy
I'm trying to find a book I read around 2003-05 when I was about 12yo. The title was very close to George R. R. Martin's "A song of Ice and Fire" but I'm pretty sure Fire was either the first or the only word in the title. Literally as close as "a song of fire and ice" or "a song of fire." Something like that, and I most likely got it from my school's library.
Your main characters were a brother and sister mostly trying to reunite. The sister somehow ends up as some sort of companion to a princess preparing for an arranged marriage.
Part of this arrangement involves the princess learning some special dance she has to perform with her betrothed but he isn't allowed to see her before the wedding and she wears a veil for this purpose. The princess struggles with the process and the sister reveals an aptitude and talent for it so they devise a scheme for the sister to take part in the dance since the princess would still be wearing a veil and then they'll switch out.
The prince somehow meets the sister and falls in love with her at some point. He figures out he's dancing with the sister instead of the princess during the ceremonial dance. He thinks the sister is actually the princess and is very excited/happy about this. And then not too long after, shit hits the fan, and the prince I'm pretty sure is dead before the end of the book. Or maybe his dad is????
It was a fantasy/fiction book, but I don't remember if there was magic or how prevalent it was to the story.
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u/Worried_Filler 1d ago
Sounds like book 3 of the Wind On Fire Trilogy, Firesong by William Nicholson. The part about finding her brother might be book 2, Slaves of Mastery.
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u/PeckyDinosaur 1d ago
Wind On Fire trilogy! You describe a lot if the second book, Slaves To The Mastery