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Falling Kingdoms by Morgan Rhodes
5.0
While this is a very good book, it did have a lot of elements I didn’t like, the incest plot line, the instalove, the villain characters aren’t very sympathetic or complex and sometimes the main characters annoyed me. I feel like this is the type of series that’ll get better when the author works out the kinks and fleshes out the world. It did have a lot of really good parts, the world was the most interesting.
I also love see all the characters react to certain situations like at the beginning when Tomas dies. Everyone has a reaction to it depending on where you come from. Rhodes is very good at making the three kingdoms very different and unique but not painting one as the soul bad guy or good guy. There are people in there.
**spoilers**
What a hell of a prolog.
Theon is really cute.
I agree with Theon, Cleo, if you’re a princess you shouldn’t just drink anything from any random stranger.
Aron is a dick. Oh and he actually is a bastard.
Whelp Tomas is dead, this book could be renamed “Escalating Quickly: A Novel”.
There’s a Magnus in this book!
Limeros sounds boring as fuck.
First a character named Magnus, now a character named Tobias. Weird.
I know that Lucia is adopted but…Magnus being in love with his sister is still so wrong.
I noticed that each kingdom have a little symbol that looks like first letter of their name. Auranos has a bird that looks like an A. Limeros has a snake that looks like a L. Then Paelsia has a P that looks like a sword.
Cleo is totally friendzoning Nic…They’re really cute together. They need to stop being mean to Theon, though. I love him. Please don’t make a love triangle out of Nic, Theon and Cleo.
I like Brion.
*sighs* I thought Aron was going to be complex but he just seems to be an asshole.
So Aron and Cleo had sex and that’s the big secret.
Everyone has fucking secrets.
I really like going back and forth between the kingdoms, to see their different takes on Tomas’s death and their reactions. Their different cultures and ideals. They’re pretty complex.
I was just thinking about how annoying Tobias was but then the Chief of Paelsia said King had to make a blood sacrifice. I knew he was dead man.
The best way to survive a Morgan Rhodes book is to wear protection on your neck.
Magnus’s dad, reminds me of the King in Throne of Glass.
EMILIA WAS IN LOVE WITH THEON’S FATHER. MY GOD.
Why in most fantasy books, doctors are called “healers”.
“She let out the breath she hadn’t realize she’d been holding as she finally reached the bottom of the stairs.”—page 148
Goddammit Rhodes.
All this talk of wine and grapes, makes me really want some grapes.
I like Nic…but Theon and Cleo are cuter.
Magnus is exactly like City of Ashes Jace. He’s a broody, kind of a dick, is in love with his sister and has a crazy, evil father. He also thinks he’s a monster.
“The king would kill him if he failed. And if something happened to Cleo…he’d want to die. The thought of her bright eyes extinguished, her light-hearted laugh silenced…he broke into a cold sweat and had to lean his forehead against the marble wall of the hallway.
I’m falling in love with her.”—page 186
That was pretty quick Theon.
I’m gonna guess that Alexius’s sister is the banished watcher.
Finally Magnus finds out the truth.
Shit is continuing to get real, Lucia just killed Sabina.
I’m so conflicted on who I’m rooting for between Jonas and Cleo.
“Unconscious, she didn’t seem nearly the cold, manipulative, rich bitch he’d fully decided she was.”—page 258
Oooooo.
While I’m glad Theon and Cleo are getting together, I love guard characters, but…it all seems a little too fast.
Magnus, Cleo and Theon meeting!
MAGNUS KILLED THEON! HOW FUCKING DARE YOU!
Oy Magnus and Lucia…
MAGNUS STANDING UP TO HIS DAD! FUCK YEAH! But now Magnus is going to be a dick.
For some reason I really like Queen Althea.
No shit Jonas, of course the king of Limeros is going to backstab you.
A battle already? Damn. This book doesn’t feel like a first book in the series.
That poor 11 year old boy named Leo. RIP.
SO YOU’RE FUCKING TELL ME THAT CLEO COULD HAVE SAVE THEON AND EMILIA BUT THE WATCHER DIDN’T TELL CLEO TO OPEN THE ENEVLOPE AS SON AS FUCKING POSSIBLE. THIS IS BULLSHIT! I’M SO ANGRY! Morgan Rhodes is Satan.
Oh no! Magnus! Glad Lucia healed them, I hope they stopped fighting, soon.
Goddammit Aron. You’re a pathetic asshole.
“She ignored him and forced herself to keep her expression neutral. ‘Prince Magnus…’
‘Yes, Princess Cleiona?’
‘I want you to give your father a message from me.’
‘You can certainly deliver it yourself, but all right. What is it?’
‘Tell him that his song failed again.’”—page 383
BAM!
NO NOT THE KING! GODDAMMIT RHODES! God, poor Cleo.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, Alexius you can’t kill Lucia.
Wow, I’m so shocked a guy who’s called the “King of Blood” is evil and was going to kill the Chief.
Time for Jonas and Cleo to team up!
GODDAMMIT MAGNUS! I need the next book.
I also love see all the characters react to certain situations like at the beginning when Tomas dies. Everyone has a reaction to it depending on where you come from. Rhodes is very good at making the three kingdoms very different and unique but not painting one as the soul bad guy or good guy. There are people in there.
**spoilers**
What a hell of a prolog.
Theon is really cute.
I agree with Theon, Cleo, if you’re a princess you shouldn’t just drink anything from any random stranger.
Aron is a dick. Oh and he actually is a bastard.
Whelp Tomas is dead, this book could be renamed “Escalating Quickly: A Novel”.
There’s a Magnus in this book!
Limeros sounds boring as fuck.
First a character named Magnus, now a character named Tobias. Weird.
I know that Lucia is adopted but…Magnus being in love with his sister is still so wrong.
I noticed that each kingdom have a little symbol that looks like first letter of their name. Auranos has a bird that looks like an A. Limeros has a snake that looks like a L. Then Paelsia has a P that looks like a sword.
Cleo is totally friendzoning Nic…They’re really cute together. They need to stop being mean to Theon, though. I love him. Please don’t make a love triangle out of Nic, Theon and Cleo.
I like Brion.
*sighs* I thought Aron was going to be complex but he just seems to be an asshole.
So Aron and Cleo had sex and that’s the big secret.
Everyone has fucking secrets.
I really like going back and forth between the kingdoms, to see their different takes on Tomas’s death and their reactions. Their different cultures and ideals. They’re pretty complex.
I was just thinking about how annoying Tobias was but then the Chief of Paelsia said King had to make a blood sacrifice. I knew he was dead man.
The best way to survive a Morgan Rhodes book is to wear protection on your neck.
Magnus’s dad, reminds me of the King in Throne of Glass.
EMILIA WAS IN LOVE WITH THEON’S FATHER. MY GOD.
Why in most fantasy books, doctors are called “healers”.
“She let out the breath she hadn’t realize she’d been holding as she finally reached the bottom of the stairs.”—page 148
Goddammit Rhodes.
All this talk of wine and grapes, makes me really want some grapes.
I like Nic…but Theon and Cleo are cuter.
Magnus is exactly like City of Ashes Jace. He’s a broody, kind of a dick, is in love with his sister and has a crazy, evil father. He also thinks he’s a monster.
“The king would kill him if he failed. And if something happened to Cleo…he’d want to die. The thought of her bright eyes extinguished, her light-hearted laugh silenced…he broke into a cold sweat and had to lean his forehead against the marble wall of the hallway.
I’m falling in love with her.”—page 186
That was pretty quick Theon.
I’m gonna guess that Alexius’s sister is the banished watcher.
Finally Magnus finds out the truth.
Shit is continuing to get real, Lucia just killed Sabina.
I’m so conflicted on who I’m rooting for between Jonas and Cleo.
“Unconscious, she didn’t seem nearly the cold, manipulative, rich bitch he’d fully decided she was.”—page 258
Oooooo.
While I’m glad Theon and Cleo are getting together, I love guard characters, but…it all seems a little too fast.
Magnus, Cleo and Theon meeting!
MAGNUS KILLED THEON! HOW FUCKING DARE YOU!
Oy Magnus and Lucia…
MAGNUS STANDING UP TO HIS DAD! FUCK YEAH! But now Magnus is going to be a dick.
For some reason I really like Queen Althea.
No shit Jonas, of course the king of Limeros is going to backstab you.
A battle already? Damn. This book doesn’t feel like a first book in the series.
That poor 11 year old boy named Leo. RIP.
SO YOU’RE FUCKING TELL ME THAT CLEO COULD HAVE SAVE THEON AND EMILIA BUT THE WATCHER DIDN’T TELL CLEO TO OPEN THE ENEVLOPE AS SON AS FUCKING POSSIBLE. THIS IS BULLSHIT! I’M SO ANGRY! Morgan Rhodes is Satan.
Oh no! Magnus! Glad Lucia healed them, I hope they stopped fighting, soon.
Goddammit Aron. You’re a pathetic asshole.
“She ignored him and forced herself to keep her expression neutral. ‘Prince Magnus…’
‘Yes, Princess Cleiona?’
‘I want you to give your father a message from me.’
‘You can certainly deliver it yourself, but all right. What is it?’
‘Tell him that his song failed again.’”—page 383
BAM!
NO NOT THE KING! GODDAMMIT RHODES! God, poor Cleo.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, Alexius you can’t kill Lucia.
Wow, I’m so shocked a guy who’s called the “King of Blood” is evil and was going to kill the Chief.
Time for Jonas and Cleo to team up!
GODDAMMIT MAGNUS! I need the next book.