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Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig
4.0

This duolog tugged at my heart strings, and the story as a whole (world building, magic system, characters) I would probably give a 4.5⭐, but after sleeping on this book I didn't like it as much as the first and couldn't rate them the same. With all due to respect to Elm and Ione, I was in it for Ravyn and Elspeth and I wanted more of them in Two Twisted Crowns (not just the idea of them).

However, I think that the mirroring of Elspeth and the Shepard King in this book to their relationship in the first was important, and I appreciated all of the history that was delivered to the reader through it as well. The world building that started in the first novel continued evenly in this one and I was not unsatisfied with the ending, but there are a few more curtains that I would have loved to get to peak behind before the story closed out.