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Kings Cage by Victoria Aveyard

52 reviews

jessicaludden's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

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

4.0

The only thing this book did was make me like Maven more. Just kidding… kind of. The first half of it was very Maven focused and then the second half focused more on Mare and Cal, so I liked both of that. It did drag and didn’t really need to be that long. The ending was alright. I can tell who’s side I’m on as far as certain things go. I did enjoy all the battles and war planning stuff though.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Violence and Blood

felicia's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Violence, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gore, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

kinsportch's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

King’s cage was definitely a better read than Glass Sword, but does not quite add up to Red Queen. Mare Barrow is consistently an unlikable character focused primarily on herself the majority of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Kidnapping, Murder, and War

Moderate: Confinement, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Cursing, Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Lesbophobia

emmaopaline's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Racism, Violence, Blood, Murder, and War

readwithde's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.25

I really enjoyed this book. Having the characters split gave them some extra time for progression (both character and plot).

While I get why Mare would be kept prisoner for so long, I would have preferred more interactions with the court, if not with Maven.

Even bringing in Evangeline's POV chapters earlier would have helped that section fill out a bit more, even if it tipped her family's hand a bit.

Cameron was an interesting POV for the Scarlet Guard/red side of things, which again left much of the political machinations off the page, but at least gave the basics. Even Kilorn would have been a better choice, in my opinion. 

I feel like the final third of the book dragged a bit, at least up until the climax,

the second battle at Corvium.

It just felt like the pacing was off after

Mare was rescued by the Scarlet Guard.

I think there was too much build up in the beginning that didn't leave enough room for the three bigger battles.

Finally,

I know we should want Cal to choose Mare, but I don't think he's wrong to ask Mare to choose him instead. I'm hoping there is a way for compromise in the final book, but I'm happy that each of them are actually dealing with what they want instead of throwing away their convictions, training, or lives.

Overall, this was a strong sequel, and I was surprised by a few things; I'm very excited to read the final book and the short stories.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Gaslighting

Minor: Emotional abuse, Genocide, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Torture, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment

nokikana's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Kidnapping, and War

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Torture, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Murder

Minor: Child abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

llsugarspicell's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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

4.25

I really loved this book, it’s better than the previous one.

⛔️ Spoilers ahead ⛔️

I loved Cameron and Evangeline POVs and enjoyed being in their heads for a change. Mare is good but she can’t pick aside just like Cal, she’s desperate and in love-hate relationship with Maven … yes she hates him but at the same time he’s all she can think about and want his attention and get jealous and want to convince herself she doesn’t care about him all the time.
 
Maven’s back story just broke me, i mean i guessed before his mother did something with his brain but I didn’t imagine it to be that bad, she  converted him into a sociopath and i just hated her more.
and can we talk about how the bath tub scene is THE BEST .. I don’t know why but my heart broke into millions and millions pieces after reading that chapter it was so great i felt every emotion … I’m not ready to read how my mavey baby gonna die 😢😭💔

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and War

Moderate: Vomit

escapismforlife's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful informative reflective sad 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? Yes

3.25

 If I'm being nice about it I would have to say Mare Barrow  is not the brightest  main character.  She is flawed but knows it and even with  a cool power that makes her different gets captured somehow. 

That said I think I'm  done with this series because  both her and Evangeline are getting railroaded  over. And I don't  care enough  to read War Storm for now to see how everything  ends for them. 

 But I did enjoy the megatrons, and differen new characters who had the same power as Mare.  Not to mention  howsilver Evangelin  mperspective. It made this book more interesting  and brought a lot more complexity  to see the bad peoples side. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Sexism

caitlink's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Torture, Violence, and Blood

sofiya's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

I’m conflicted by how much I actually like this book vs. how much of it is just curiosity to see how it ends. I never felt bored reading this book and personally feel that the writing gets better with each one in the series. Interesting focus on trust vs. love vs. need  that I like a lot. The ending was a bit rushed in my opinion, but overall I enjoyed this installment the most (so far). Also didn’t mind the different POVs, which I usually find annoying in books (probably because she still focused on Mare as the main character rather than too much splitting). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Grief, and Murder