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One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake

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zaesbookshelf's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

Okay. Wow.

You often hear about “the second book curse”. This phenomenon in which the second of a series is a bit of dud - something to get through to continue the story. This book is not.

Since the world has already been built and as much time is not needed spent creating this island of Fennbirn, this book moves quickly. Lots of action, lots of character development. The beautiful writing and storytelling started in the first book continues here.

Kendare Blake does such a good job of keeping the reader on their toes; never quite sure what will happen. Which I deeply appreciate! Halfway through this series and (though I have hopes) I genuinely have no clue how it will end. And I am very excited to find out!

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lizzie___'s review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

I love the series, but I felt that with this book the author really just tried to create a opening for as many sequels as possible, as some choices she made during the story clearly leave holes that give oportunity for a longer series... It kinda made me mad (?) 'cuz the story would be better/more interesting (in my opinion) if she didn't tried to make so many turns and plot twists!

With Katherine being the Queen we would still have an opening for AT LEAST one more sequel... Like how things would go whit the execution of her sisters (the discovery of Arsinoe's real gift and Mirabella facing Luca during her execution knowing the temple "trade" her for chairs in the council since she refuse to kill her sisters), what would happen with Jules and even how Katherine would deal with the fact that her king is dead and she has to hide it from EVERYONE... Would she manage to do that? The consequences for the island, her relationship with Pietyr, Genevieve being the new chief of the Arrons and the council (that now counts with a heavy presence of the temple), what really happened to Katherine and the forgotten queens...

It's just that the history could develope so much without her clearly molding it to go in a certain way to make it longer or without caracters making really boderline dumb and incoherent decisions in the name of leadin the history to places!

like when they decided to not sacrifice Jules even with her having the legion curse in name of "calmin down Wolf Spring" when is know that's a island tradicion to do things that way and that she was already disliked by them, how Billy's dad killed Natalia and they never even tried to look for Billy after that, how they sent just 3 really weak guards to escort Mirabella when she's know to be the most powerfull one, how when Katherine is crowned everyone is still treatin the other sisters like queens and obeying then even when it leads to then scaping, how only 12 members of the gift of the war (WHO WHERE SUPPOSE TO BE FUCKING WEAK 'CUZ OF THE GENERATIONS WITHOUT A QUEEN OF THEIR KIND) were able do destroy every single guard of the Volroy without being caught and how the council only was informed of the queens escape a freaking day later

Still it's a good read if you just want to have a good time and don't care that much about the series :)

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bookishgoob's review against another edition

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adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

Such a beautiful and heartbreaking sequel. part of me doesn’t want to go to the next book from the fear of my heart breaking even more. Katharine is terrible and i can not stand any of the arryns. this book series is such an adventure and i very much recommend it

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emily_mh's review against another edition

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adventurous tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

I feel pretty much the same about this instalment as I did about Three Dark Crowns: this book had the same selling points and pitfalls. I added a quarter star to the rating as the second half is better and has definitely breathed new life into the plot line; I’m intrigued to see where the series goes next.

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martereadsbooks's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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books_and_coffee_vibes's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense 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

4.75

I found this book a lot better then the first book. It had a quicker pace and the plot was a lot better. I found there was more character development and the last few pages left me crying. I loved how there was a turn of events that kept me on my toes.

This book is one of my favorites in the series so far.

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