A review by lawbooks600
Twin Crowns by Katherine Webber, Catherine Doyle

4.0

8/10, this was a fantasy book I had high expectations for after reading and enjoying The Midnight Girls by Alicia Jasinska and wow did it deliver and there are so many great aspects about this but I especially liked the worldbuilding of this since it was quite creative and immersive. The plot was kind of disconnected and incohesive and it only got together towards the last 100 pages however I enjoyed both stories of Wren Greenrock and Rose Valhart and somehow they swapped for whatever reason in the beginning but I enjoyed the former more since Wren was likeable and Rose wasn't at first but she developed her character which I liked and this was a slow burn which might be a dealbreaker for me but in this case it wasn't. The Wren plot starts off in the Anadawn Palace where she impersonates Rose and all goes well until she didn't want to get married to the prince of the neighbouring country and tries to stop it by planning a murder but that didn't go so well and her cover was revealed when Rose came back to the palace. Rose was in the desert with Shen and she didn't like it at first and once she discovered that she's a witch she denies it at first but then she accepts it and goes to meet the leader Banba at a town called Ortha and I found that the Great Protector was evil since he messed up Eana and killed some witches but not all of them which I found strange. The two twins meet each other and they disliked each other at first but soon they banded together to try and take back control from the antagonist called Willem Rathborne and they succeed and they became queens and that's it. If you like high fantasy stories with strong protagonists do give this one a try since I enjoyed it and you might also.