The Glittering Court is a chance for girls to seek a better life in the New World, and it’s where Adelaide, Tamsin, and Mira meet for the first time. Through etiquette training, dangerous adventures, a journey across the ocean, and the search for love, these three have each other’s backs, and their relationship gives us the ultimate friendship feels. Read on for 8 lessons about female friendship you learn in The Glittering Court!

You can feel a connection without knowing anything about each other.

Adelaide meets her friends for the first time in the carriage to The Glittering Court, and she instantly feels a connection with Mira when she realizes that they’ve both lost their mothers.

You are each other’s #1 defense.

Inevitably, there are some attitudes at The Glittering Court. And when someone throws Mira shade at their first breakfast, Adelaide wastes zero time putting the offender in her place.

You keep each other’s secrets with no questions, no judgment, and no way anyone will ever find out.

Because that’s what you do. Adelaide, Tamsin, and Mira are at The Glittering Court for their own reasons, and whatever extracurricular activity they have going on (whether it’s a risky romance or sneaking off in the middle of the night) they have each other’s backs.

Even if you’re from different social groups or have entirely different interests, you have a special bond that nothing can break.

Adelaide, Tamsin, and Mira couldn’t come from more different backgrounds – but going through the good and the bad of The Glittering Court together brings them together.

When you make up after a fight, you forgive each other completely. Also, you never want to fight again because you missed each other way too much.

Tamsin wants to be the diamond, and when it looks like Adelaide is her toughest opponent, things get complicated. But as with any true friendship, they remember what’s most important in the end.

When you’re super stressed, just seeing/talking to each other for five minutes gives you the reality check you need.

Training at The Glittering Court is no walk in the park, and it helps to have close friends to get through everything from etiquette classes to a journey across the ocean.

You are each other’s second family.

During training and in the New World, the girls become each other’s #1 support system, especially because they had to leave everything and everyone behind to seek a new life through The Glittering Court.

All you want at the end of the day is each other’s ultimate happiness, whatever that is.

Adelaide, Tamsin, and Mira don’t know what they’ll find in the New World, or how their lives will turn out – but they get behind each other’s choices 100%.

Read the first chapters of The Glittering Court here!