The Poppy War
Start of Poppy War seriesby R.F. Kuang
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When tech mogul Thayer Wren dies, his three telepathically gifted children—a biotech CEO hiding a dark secret, a struggling congressman, and a former prima ballerina turned corporate executive—find themselves locked in a ruthless battle for their father's fortune and approval. Each sibling believes they deserve the Wrenfare empire, but their dangerous abilities and festering rivalries threaten to destroy them all in their quest to prove who was truly the favorite child.
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| The Poppy War📚 Series starter | R.F. Kuang | 0 | 2018 | — | Start a new series |
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Gifted & Talented is a Fantasy novel by Olivie Blake, published in 2025.
Gifted & Talented is 512 pages long.
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes the story of three siblings who, upon the death of their father, are forced to reckon with their long-festering rivalries, dangerous abilities, and the crushing weight of all their unrealized adolescent potential.Where there’s a will, there’s a war.Thayer Wren, the brilliant CEO of Wrenfare Magitech and so-called father of modern technology, is dead. Any one of his three telepathically and electrokinetically gifted children would be a plausible inheritor to the Wrenfare throne.Or at least, so they like to think.Meredith, textbook accomplished eldest daughter and the head of her own groundbreaking biotech company, has recently cured mental illness. You're welcome! If only her father's fortune wasn't her last hope for keeping her journalist ex-boyfriend from exposing what she really is: a total fraud.Arthur, second-youngest congressman in history, fights the good fight every day of his life. And yet, his wife might be leaving him, and he's losing his re-election campaign. But his dead father’s approval in the form of a seat on the Wrenfare throne might just turn his sinking ship around.Eilidh, once the world's most famous ballerina, has spent the last five years as a run-of-the-mill marketing executive at her father’s company after a life-altering injury put an end to her prodigious career. She might be lacking in accolades compared to her siblings, but if her father left her everything, it would finally validate her worth―by confirming she'd been his favorite all along.On the pipeline of gifted kid to clinically depressed adult, nobody wins―but which Wren will come out on top?