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xanderrabbit 's review for:
One Dark Throne
by Kendare Blake
3.5 stars!
I was pleasantly surprised with this sequel. I was so invested the whole time, it painted the first book in a new light (though I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing, because now I can see where the first book was slow where this one wasn't).
Going into this book, I was mostly just looking forward to having something to read, but I was kept on the edge of my seat. I cannot tell you how many times I spoke aloud to it!
I know I've said before that all the men in this book are trash, but I'm taking that back a bit, because Billy has grown on me. In the first book, I didn't really care for Arsinoe, but now I've come to realize she's a badass and I love her. Mirabella is still nice, but that's really all she is to me. A nice character. I don't see much depth in her. Kinda the same with Katherine, except she's not nice anymore, she's doing her best to be pretty much the wicked queen everyone wants and expects her to be, and if she just had a little more complexity to her character, I'd be so here for it. I mean, I'm not not here for it, I just think she fell a little flat. Ah, Jules! I love Jules. I almost cried when she left!! Not for Joseph, although poor Jules, poor Arsinoe!! Also, loved the bear. Probably my favorite of them all (not joking).
I mentioned in my review of the first book that the worldbuilding was slightly muddy to me, and some of my questions were answered, but honestly, I feel like I have more questions on the mythology and traditions of this series than I have answers. I understand that the readers shouldn't be told everything, but sometimes it gets confusing when there are so many different practices happening at once. I am glad book two had a cast of characters in the beginning, because that was another thing in book one that could be confusing.
Again, I was speaking to my book the whole time I was reading it. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING????" "WHAT, YOU'RE ALIVE???" "WHAT, YOU'RE DEAD???" "WHAT!!! THAT'S GROSS!!!!"
Yeah. Y'all are in for a wild ride. 3.5/5 stars!!!
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I was pleasantly surprised with this sequel. I was so invested the whole time, it painted the first book in a new light (though I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing, because now I can see where the first book was slow where this one wasn't).
Going into this book, I was mostly just looking forward to having something to read, but I was kept on the edge of my seat. I cannot tell you how many times I spoke aloud to it!
I know I've said before that all the men in this book are trash, but I'm taking that back a bit, because Billy has grown on me. In the first book, I didn't really care for Arsinoe, but now I've come to realize she's a badass and I love her. Mirabella is still nice, but that's really all she is to me. A nice character. I don't see much depth in her. Kinda the same with Katherine, except she's not nice anymore, she's doing her best to be pretty much the wicked queen everyone wants and expects her to be, and if she just had a little more complexity to her character, I'd be so here for it. I mean, I'm not not here for it, I just think she fell a little flat. Ah, Jules! I love Jules. I almost cried when she left!! Not for Joseph, although poor Jules, poor Arsinoe!! Also, loved the bear. Probably my favorite of them all (not joking).
I mentioned in my review of the first book that the worldbuilding was slightly muddy to me, and some of my questions were answered, but honestly, I feel like I have more questions on the mythology and traditions of this series than I have answers. I understand that the readers shouldn't be told everything, but sometimes it gets confusing when there are so many different practices happening at once. I am glad book two had a cast of characters in the beginning, because that was another thing in book one that could be confusing.
Again, I was speaking to my book the whole time I was reading it. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING????" "WHAT, YOU'RE ALIVE???" "WHAT, YOU'RE DEAD???" "WHAT!!! THAT'S GROSS!!!!"
Yeah. Y'all are in for a wild ride. 3.5/5 stars!!!
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