Book: One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake
Series: One Dark Throne
Medium: Audiobook
Date Read: Jan 8-10, 2019
Overall Rating: 4 poison viles/5
I know that I go easy on YA’s rating wise but you know what, they are so fun, you want to read them, and they keep you reading and this sequel is just that. Excellent character development, continuation of an interesting plot, and people making terrible mistakes due to lack of communication. Oh, teenagers, when will you learn?
In the sequel to Three Dark Queens, Kendare picks up right where she left off. After the disastrous end to the Beltane, the three queens continue to be pitted against each other and seek each other deaths in order to survive to be the one and only Queen. I won’t go into any more as that all spoilers and people should read this series.
It’s not a super typical series for YA in that the plot fairly robust and the relationships don’t feel hollow like so many YA relationship do. In this book, you will find yourself compelled to like at least two of the three queens and their various companions, hate the other players in the game, and continue to be baffled about why the island goddess devised this as the means of governance for Fenbirn. And while there are not more balls to enjoy…. no WAIT there was one. Hahaha. Someone was poisoned at it. Good times. Anyways, more than one ball aside, the events are well paced and exciting.
Keep on poisoning, animals handling, and whether controlling. I’ll be reading the final book and the novellas as soon as the actual teenagers this is intended for hand them back to the library.
While I don’t condone throwing anyone into a bottomless pit, if we are considering adding it to how we chose political leaders, I have a list.
Well, in this case, the person climbed out and now hold the power of the dead. Soooooo as much fun as it would be to throw certain people down the pit I think it MIGHT be more practical to institute a volcano throwing policy, that way no coming back with ghost powers. Unless they came back as a lava monster…. man impeachment is looking like a much more practical thing than all this ‘throwing people into things’ stuff.
Emotional satisfaction and political outcomes rarely seem to go hand in hand. I guess I’ll stick to voting and protesting.