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A review by foraging_pages
A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner
4.0
All of my life people had chosen for me. My father or the king of Sounis, his magus, or the king's other advi-sors. All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung.
This time we get to know Sophos better! We first meet him in The Thief and come to know him as the kindhearted, shy heir to Sounis. Now he’s trying to embody Eugenides as he makes his way to safety after being kidnapped!
When Sophos and Gen meet again after having not seen each other since book one, they ask questions and catch up from that point. The author doesn’t gloss over the time gone by like others might do. I appreciate that.
While the story was perfectly entertaining, I didn’t enjoy it as much as the previous books. It seemed to be a repeat of The King of Atollia but with Sophos as the protagonist rather than Eugenides. He’s thrust in a new position, it’s difficult, he falls down, he falls in fall, he gets back up, he triumphs. I have the same issues with this “romance” as I did with the previous one - it doesn’t exist. I’m being too harsh but the author puts it on the back burner then just assumes the readers will accept it as true love because that’s what she and the characters say it is.
This time we get to know Sophos better! We first meet him in The Thief and come to know him as the kindhearted, shy heir to Sounis. Now he’s trying to embody Eugenides as he makes his way to safety after being kidnapped!
When Sophos and Gen meet again after having not seen each other since book one, they ask questions and catch up from that point. The author doesn’t gloss over the time gone by like others might do. I appreciate that.
While the story was perfectly entertaining, I didn’t enjoy it as much as the previous books. It seemed to be a repeat of The King of Atollia but with Sophos as the protagonist rather than Eugenides. He’s thrust in a new position, it’s difficult, he falls down, he falls in fall, he gets back up, he triumphs. I have the same issues with this “romance” as I did with the previous one - it doesn’t exist. I’m being too harsh but the author puts it on the back burner then just assumes the readers will accept it as true love because that’s what she and the characters say it is.