Blurb:
The battle has been fought, blood has been spilled, and a queen has been crowned, but not all are happy with the outcome.
Katharine, the poisoner queen, has been crowned and is trying to ignore the whispers that call her illegitimate, undead, cursed.
Mirabella and Arisinoe, have escaped the island of Fennbirn, but how long before the island calls them back?
Jules is returning to Fennbirn and has become the unlikely figurehead of a revolution threatening to topple Katharine’s already unsteady rule.
But what good is a revolution if something is wrong with the island itself?
Rating: 4/5 stars
Side Notes:
- Genres: Fantasy Fiction
- Highly recommend for 12 years and above
- Book 3 in the Three Dark Crowns Series
Book Quotes:
- “Some people leave too much space behind when they are gone.”
- “With her weakening gift, she could be burned, and Arsinoe imagines that for a girl who used to dance with fire, there could be nothing worse.”
- “You don’t threaten the life of a queen and live to tell the tale.” She flips the knife, catches it. “Taking the life of a queen… now that is another matter”
- “None of us are ever who we think we are.”
- “This is the Legion Queen,” Mathilde says to the frozen crowd. “The strongest naturalist in ten generations. The strongest warrior in two hundred years. She is the one who will fight for all the gifts. She is the one who will change everything.”
- “Maybe the madness of the legion curse is nothing but a lie spread by the temple.” “Why would they lie?” “To keep anyone from being as powerful as you could be.”
- “The truth of you is yet to come . . . I know only that you were once a queen and may be again.”
- “There is nothing a warrior loves more than to run into a battle headlong with little chance of victory. That is where the glory is, they say. That is where heroes are made. Jules has never heard anything quite so stupid.”
- “It’s a nice story. Something new. The poisoners off the throne. But it’s only a story. A dream, and I’ve dreamed those kinds of dreams before. They don’t work out.”
- “You loved him more. I always knew that. And he loved you.” Mirabella shakes her head. “He never really loved me.” For a moment Jules is silent. Then she turns and looks at her, dead-on. “You must think I’m really small, to think that would make me glad.”
- “Hope is for fools . . . Not long ago I hoped for everything, and look what has become of me, and those I loved.”
- “The only thing I’m afraid of . . . the only thing I regret, is that I can’t do this alone. That others have to risk themselves with me.”
- “Embers and rage, waiting to ignite.”
- “A queen once crowned,” Luca says, “is crowned forever.”