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A review by queens_flame
Kingdom of Ice and Bone by Jill Criswell
4.0
First off, thank you SO much to Blackstone Publishing for providing me with an advanced copy to read and review. Last year I got a copy of Beasts of the Frozen Sun from ALA and fell in love with the story, so I desperately had to get my hands on the sequel!
Now, if you haven’t read the first one, you might still be able to read this review, I may spoil just a leeetle bit.
Now, good gosh I don’t know what I was expecting from Kingdom of Ice and Bone, but it wasn’t SO MUCH DAMN PAIN. Lira and Reyker are separated at the end of the first book, each of them thinking the other dead through most of the sequel. It HURT. But I loved seeing their separate journeys and all of the growth they went through.
Their reunions were so painful, only for them to be ripped away from each other once again. This sequel was a non stop rollercoaster of pain, and if you thought it couldn’t get worse, IT FREAKING GETS WORSE.
My only complaint is that I hate the rapey vibes that the Dragon gives me. Like. Can we have a villain who isn’t a total predator? He can be bad without being THAT kind of bad, as we have already seen.
Anyways, I absolutely love this series. It can be a little confusing in terms of the worldbuiling/magic – but I blame my confusion this book on it having been probably a year since I read the first book. Be sure to read these back to back or give book one a re-read.
Now, if you haven’t read the first one, you might still be able to read this review, I may spoil just a leeetle bit.
Spoiler
Now, good gosh I don’t know what I was expecting from Kingdom of Ice and Bone, but it wasn’t SO MUCH DAMN PAIN. Lira and Reyker are separated at the end of the first book, each of them thinking the other dead through most of the sequel. It HURT. But I loved seeing their separate journeys and all of the growth they went through.
Their reunions were so painful, only for them to be ripped away from each other once again. This sequel was a non stop rollercoaster of pain, and if you thought it couldn’t get worse, IT FREAKING GETS WORSE.
My only complaint is that I hate the rapey vibes that the Dragon gives me. Like. Can we have a villain who isn’t a total predator? He can be bad without being THAT kind of bad, as we have already seen.
Anyways, I absolutely love this series. It can be a little confusing in terms of the worldbuiling/magic – but I blame my confusion this book on it having been probably a year since I read the first book. Be sure to read these back to back or give book one a re-read.