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One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake
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it was ok
bookshelves: young-adult, fantasy, i-hate-myself, audiobooks, published-2017, read-2019

Okay.

I could pretend that I have some desire to finish series that I start, but True Blood beat that out of me years ago. So why did I pick up this sequel? Am I am masochist? Did I just really want to hate on something? Extreme morbid curiosity? All of the above?

I'll say this as a positive: I liked this book more than the first. But not by much. And the narrator made the book easier to digest.

The first 45% of this book focused on the girls and who they were romancing. This book, that is about how two sisters will die and one will reign queen, spent nearly HALF THE SEQUEL still talking about boys. Oh dear.

While the second half is much more action packed thus wildly more entertaining than the first 600 pages of this series, the world building is so bad that I just kind of shrug. It isn't even a fun bad like Riverdale, who solely exists to be ridiculous.

To add to my questions from the last book:
*So we don't know where the mom of the girls is? Or the dad? They just...disappear once they have triplets, and no one cares? This seems contradictory to what we are told in book one, no?
*Did we really make a book where essentially the woman's sole purpose is to murder and then pop out triplets?
*There is a comment about how Mirabella would have a long reign and have the triplets at 50. Now, I get this isn't earth and maybe these aren't humans but uh what? There isn't enough world building for me to buy that the Queen won't have kids almost immediately.
*Seriously - what is this political system? 16 years where the island is divided for the sake of protecting the new queens isn't a healthy or workable system.
*Did this book just like throw together a new kind of power? Just to make Jules even more powerful?
*How does Arsinoe's low magic suddenly work without any issues whatsoever?

Let's see if any of my other questions from Three Dark Crowns has been answered:
Why did the three princesses have to battle it out for the throne?
Why does two of the sisters have to die?
Why does the mom die the moment the children are born?
Who rules the island while the princess/Queens are children/babies if their parents are gone?
Where does the magic come from?
Where is the girls' dad?
Why must the princesses be separate? Why do they hate each other?
Why can't they leave the island?
What's their relationship with the main land?
And SO MANY PEOPLE are anti-Joseph. Why? He never lied, he just thought he felt love until he found love. Did I miss a subplot where he did anything truly terrible?? Why all the hate for Joseph, yet none for the guy who betrayed Katherine?



I still don't get why everyone is pro Petyr and anti-Joseph but whatever. All the guys suck except for Billy, who doesn't have enough of a personality to stand out too much.

I'm going to read book 3 and 4 aren't I? Sigh.
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Reading Progress

January 10, 2019 – Started Reading
January 10, 2019 – Shelved
January 10, 2019 – Shelved as: young-adult
January 10, 2019 – Shelved as: fantasy
January 10, 2019 – Shelved as: i-hate-myself
January 10, 2019 – Shelved as: audiobooks
January 10, 2019 – Shelved as: published-2017
January 10, 2019 –
page 205
45.76% "So far this book has left me with no answers and so many more questions like:

Did we just make up powers that were never really hinted at in the last book?
Can someone explain the government system of these books because like. Mom dies, who rules for 16 years? And then after new queen, they get what... ~16 years of her? 20 maybe at best?

Also, why no kings? Where the fuck do the dads go??"
January 10, 2019 –
page 205
45.76% "Can I update a second time because more thoughts:

This book just stopped being about everyone's relationship statuses

Why am I reading this? I am apparently a masochist and hate myself."
January 11, 2019 – Shelved as: read-2019
January 11, 2019 – Finished Reading

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