4.25 AVERAGE

adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

If "The Crown Tower" endeared me to Hadrian "The Crown Tower" has endeared me to Royce.

Royce shows off his personality a lot in this book. We get a glimpse into the how and why of this little psycho and watch as he tried to figure out how to function as a normal human being (and fail at it). Its like watching a feral cat be pet for the first time in his life and I love it.

Hadrian, while not the star of this book, also had some great moments that made me love him even more.

I'm pretty neutral on Rueben but I liked watching as he became just another cog in the huge mess/twist in the last half of the book. Hoping that we get to see him be changed by these events.

Missed Gwen a lot this book. Always wanna see more of here.

Honestly the only problem with this book is that its a little slow. But I really think this book is better than "The Crown Tower." I think for this if this is the spot in the story that you decide to start you really gotta give it 2 books to get its hooks in you.
adventurous medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

I really liked Crown Tower, but I liked this one so much more. The main characters have moved past their tropes a bit, great new characters, lots of action, less predictable. Perfect amounts of setting detail, not too much or too little. Really glad I continued with the series.
adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous challenging emotional inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Love Royce and Hadrian

This was better than the first book. 
Now im ready to start theft of swords!

Three and a half stars. The two main characters are starting to grow on me. The "partners." Riyria, which is elven speak for two.

Medieval fantasy. A couple of sub-plots, which held my interest. The author continues developing the main characters of his "Riyria Revelations" series, which was published first. I elected to start these tales in chronological order, rather than in order of publication.

Onto book three of the Chronicles or prequels.
adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes