A review by shinycrochet
Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore

5.0

This was exactly what I needed and so much more than I expected. I look forward to doing a reread as I "had to" smash it out in two days, but it was also such a fantastic story to just lose hours into at a time. It was an emotional roller coaster in all the best ways, had some beautiful character moments and I truly loved the way the political systems were used in the story.

A bit of back story, I had reserved it at my local library when it first released, but unfortunately their planned 2 weeks of renovations turned into 6 months of closures. I finally managed to get in and borrow a copy, planned on taking my time to read it but lost track of return date and someone else had reserved it, so I had 2 days to read. And oh boy I was not returning it unfinished once I saw the air machines in the front pages.