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The Winner's Kiss
by Marie Rutkoski
This was just not the finale I’d hoped to get from this series. I loved the first to books because of the angst, the intrigue, the scheming and plotting and all the tension between Kestrel and Arin. But we got so little of that in this book. Instead we have memory loss and a war that are the biggest plot points. First of all, I don’t like memory loss in any story. But here it took away all the angst for me. Them being in the same place for most of the book, but memory loss as the only obstacle… No no NOOOO. It just didn’t work for me.
And then the war story. It just didn’t work for me. I didn’t really care for all the fights and strategy to win the war. The constant switches of pov also really took me out of it. I just couldn’t keep my focus in those chapters.
Luckily I did like the ending. I liked that we ended with them outsmarting the emperor. But overall it was a very disappointing conclusion for me.
And then the war story. It just didn’t work for me. I didn’t really care for all the fights and strategy to win the war. The constant switches of pov also really took me out of it. I just couldn’t keep my focus in those chapters.
Luckily I did like the ending. I liked that we ended with them outsmarting the emperor. But overall it was a very disappointing conclusion for me.