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The Winner's Crime
by Marie Rutkoski
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After the suprising turn of the Winner's Curse, I couldn't wait a second picking this one up. I needed to know how the story would continue, I needed to know where Kestrel's and Arin's path would lead and if it would cross again. I devoured this read faster than the first book, because Marie Rutkoski definitely increased the risk of this game many levels higher.
We meet Arin in Herran, trying to figure out what this new lifestyle means for him and his people. While Kestrel is at court, trying to understand the games of the emperor, and pleasing him as the fiancée of his son's. As we watch both of them walking a new, own path in their lives, more questions seem to surpass the surface. More people have joined the game of power. Sooner than we can think we see the two interact with each other again, only to feel the tension between them grow, and grow, and grow.
The stakes are higher in this book than they have ever been before. The emperor play a game of his own, Kestrel still fights between two sides, not being able to understand what her heart wants - the love for her father, or that one for Arin. Arin himself enters the game as well, which could lead him to winning just as easily as to failure.
All of what is happening kept me on my toes, and what I loved was Rutkoski's way of telling it. While the first novel's writing was good, she did an amazing job in this one. The way the POV chapters switched, the way she put out the plots of everyone, only to make us believe one thing while another was happening - it was a joy to read. A book I definitely couldn't put down.
I have loved the sequel more than the first book, and this has been probably one of the best sequels I've read, too. I put Kestrel and Arin even closer to my heart, and came to love many more characters, while my hatred for others grew, too. I can only recommend everyone to pick up this series!!!!
After the suprising turn of the Winner's Curse, I couldn't wait a second picking this one up. I needed to know how the story would continue, I needed to know where Kestrel's and Arin's path would lead and if it would cross again. I devoured this read faster than the first book, because Marie Rutkoski definitely increased the risk of this game many levels higher.
We meet Arin in Herran, trying to figure out what this new lifestyle means for him and his people. While Kestrel is at court, trying to understand the games of the emperor, and pleasing him as the fiancée of his son's. As we watch both of them walking a new, own path in their lives, more questions seem to surpass the surface. More people have joined the game of power. Sooner than we can think we see the two interact with each other again, only to feel the tension between them grow, and grow, and grow.
The stakes are higher in this book than they have ever been before. The emperor play a game of his own, Kestrel still fights between two sides, not being able to understand what her heart wants - the love for her father, or that one for Arin. Arin himself enters the game as well, which could lead him to winning just as easily as to failure.
All of what is happening kept me on my toes, and what I loved was Rutkoski's way of telling it. While the first novel's writing was good, she did an amazing job in this one. The way the POV chapters switched, the way she put out the plots of everyone, only to make us believe one thing while another was happening - it was a joy to read. A book I definitely couldn't put down.
I have loved the sequel more than the first book, and this has been probably one of the best sequels I've read, too. I put Kestrel and Arin even closer to my heart, and came to love many more characters, while my hatred for others grew, too. I can only recommend everyone to pick up this series!!!!