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A review by whitneymouse
The Camelot Betrayal by Kiersten White
4.0
**Thank you to Netgalley and Random House Children/Delacorte Press for the eARC in exchange for an honest review. This in no way changed my rating**
I really enjoyed book one, so I was excited to continue Guinevere's story in book two of this series. Unfortunately, I think this one suffered a bit from "second book syndrome."
The Guinevere Deception felt very fast-paced to me. There was a lot of plotting and planning and then they were dealing with threats and kidnappings. This one felt very slow until the last 30 or 40 pages. There's a long plot with family drama when Guinevach, the real Guinevere's sister, shows up and almost blows her cover. However, it's just petty "girl fight" type things where the guys think she's overreacting but it's clear to the girls exactly what's going on. In the middle of the book, it picks up pace a little bit with a rescue mission, but that only lasts a few chapters, so it goes back to the family drama. The ending was amazing, though! Those last 30 to 40 pages definitely made up for the middle of the book.
The new characters introduced were a nice added dynamic, although I'll add that one of them in particular felt a little flat. Guinevere's identity was again a large part of the story, but you felt her struggling with her choices and weighing what sort of friend, person, and queen she wants to be. I did enjoy watching her grow stronger, even though she manages to be kidnapped once again. I'm hoping that is something that doesn't happen in book three because three kidnappings is too much.
The last big twist in the story made me SUPER excited for book three! I can't wait to see how this saga ends. So while this was a slower book than the first one, it is well worth the read to get to that ending!
3.5/5 stars, rounded to 4 for Goodreads.
I really enjoyed book one, so I was excited to continue Guinevere's story in book two of this series. Unfortunately, I think this one suffered a bit from "second book syndrome."
The Guinevere Deception felt very fast-paced to me. There was a lot of plotting and planning and then they were dealing with threats and kidnappings. This one felt very slow until the last 30 or 40 pages. There's a long plot with family drama when Guinevach, the real Guinevere's sister, shows up and almost blows her cover. However, it's just petty "girl fight" type things where the guys think she's overreacting but it's clear to the girls exactly what's going on. In the middle of the book, it picks up pace a little bit with a rescue mission, but that only lasts a few chapters, so it goes back to the family drama. The ending was amazing, though! Those last 30 to 40 pages definitely made up for the middle of the book.
The new characters introduced were a nice added dynamic, although I'll add that one of them in particular felt a little flat. Guinevere's identity was again a large part of the story, but you felt her struggling with her choices and weighing what sort of friend, person, and queen she wants to be. I did enjoy watching her grow stronger, even though she manages to be kidnapped once again. I'm hoping that is something that doesn't happen in book three because three kidnappings is too much.
The last big twist in the story made me SUPER excited for book three! I can't wait to see how this saga ends. So while this was a slower book than the first one, it is well worth the read to get to that ending!
3.5/5 stars, rounded to 4 for Goodreads.