Court of Fives (2015)

Court of Fives is the first high fantasy book in the Court of Fives series by Kate Elliott. It was released on August 18, 2015.

Synopsis
On the Fives court, everyone is equal.

And everyone is dangerous.

Jessamy’s life is a balance between acting like an upper-class Patron and dreaming of the freedom of the Commoners. But away from her family, she can be whomever she wants when she sneaks out to train for the Fives, an intricate, multilevel athletic competition that offers a chance for glory to the kingdom’s best competitors.

Then Jessamy, or Jes to her sisters, meets Kalliarkos, and an improbable friendship between the two Fives competitors—one of mixed race and the other a Patron boy—causes heads to turn. When Kal’s powerful, scheming uncle tears Jes’ family apart, she’ll have to test her new friend’s loyalty and risk the vengeance of a royal clan to save her mother and sisters from certain death.

In this imaginative escape into an enthralling new world, World Fantasy Award finalist Kate Elliott’s first young adult novel weaves an epic story of a girl struggling to do what she loves in a society suffocated by rules of class and privilege.

Characters

 * Prince Kalliarkos "Kal" - Kal has been training for the Fives in hopes to become an adversary. At the beginning of the book, he meets Jessamy by running a trial against her, which Jessamy ends up throwing and letting Kal win because she is unable to unmask because her father is in attendance.


 * Jessamy "Jes" Tonor (now Garon) - Born to a Patron father and an Efean mother, Jessamy is on of two middle children  and, along with her twin sister Bettany, she looks like an even mix of both of her parents. Jes is an adversary in the game of Fives.


 * Bettany "Bett" Tonor - Bett is the twin sister to Jessamy, younger sister to Maraya, and older sister to Amaya. Bett has been described as always angry.
 * Amaya “Amiable” Tonor
 * Lord Ottonor
 * Maraya “Merry” Tonor
 * Denya Tonor
 * Lord Gargaron