Meh...slow to start, sort of a boring protagonist. No one seems able with a couple of exceptions, to really handle themselves or their situations. The main character is always in the dark, whiny, and sad. Eventually, she gets up the gumption to do something and it's actually very interesting but ...
Oh my goodness! I was hesitant to pick up this series again but a year after reading The Girl of Fire and Thorns and I'm still hearing rave reviews about the series so I figured I'd give it a shot. And I'm so glad I did! I had tremendous fun reading this and I can't wait to read the next one. Oka...
3.5 starsIt feels good to finish out a series all in one go, something I haven't done in a while. As this book is a direct continuation of the previous book, I won't talk much about the plot due to spoilers. This book felt a bit more disjointed and scattered in it's plot than in previous books, w...
Wow, this book is amazing. I enjoyed the first book The Girl of Fire and Thorns. This second book exceeded my expectations. I love how the it keeps me so interested that I want to keep reading and reading. I was so excited on this book to find that Elisa finds herself in love and how the author...
I'm going to take this moment to review the whole series.So, you know, SSSPPPOOIIILLLEERRSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also, bear with for a list of songs that remind me of this series (such a weird thing, right? But I NEED TO SHARE MY HEARTACHE WITH SOMEONE)Okay, firstly, I thought the entire plot was very u...
Great look into Hector's mind before 'The Girl of Fire and Thorns'! Ms. Carson could do so much more storytelling with this world- 'The King's Guard' was engrossing- I couldn't put it down!'The King's Guard' tells the story of 15 year old Hector entering the king's guard, and then a mysterious mi...
Loved, loved, loved this book! Review coming soon. The book only got better and better the more I read. Can't wait for the next one
I love this book!!! It says I finished this book, but truthfully, I only got to about page 60 before I gave up. Sorry!
Hector has been keeping a very big secret. It amazes me how much backstory and information these Fire and Thorns novellas have added to the trilogy, although they're certainly not a necessary read to enjoy it. We don't learn as much about Hector, himself, in this one (as opposed to Shadow Cats an...
This story would have been better if a little MORE self-contained. instead, it starts without explaining why the bad guys are killing Mara's people. without explaining why they don't like the king, and it kind of ends in a weird spot where Mara looks around and says, guess I better go work in the...
This story was short, sweet, and to the point. The concept is really interesting - voices are dangerous and the prisoners cannot be heard using them or they will be killed. This leaves room for so many questions though, and we don't get them all answered. Actually, we get very few answered. Why a...
I say to her, and then wince at yet another awkward compliment. It’s a stretch. She was beautiful when she first became pregnant, glowing like the dawn, as happy as the song of a lark. But as the months have passed, it has worn her down. She still smiles with unrelenting cheer, but there is a hea...
I’m so eager to reach Khelia and ask the conde about the blight on his land that I would abandon the carriages and supply wagons to ride ahead if I could. Alas, my sister fears horses and would rather cut off an arm than ride any distance. We have not gone far when a great crack sounds. I ...
We set anchor, and Isadora gives the baby a final kiss on the forehead, then turns away, refusing to look again.Aracely gives the baby two drops of duerma leaf tea, which she says will make him sleep. He is so tiny, especially swaddled tight in one of Aracely’s blankets and wrapped in a sling und...
Another, smaller cabin faces ours. The door is wide open, revealing multiple empty bunks. “My foremen sleep here,” my uncle explains. Up a slope is a large, rocky cliff dotted with brush and dried grass and the occasional stunted tree. At the base of the cliff is the dark opening to my uncle’s mi...