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Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake

21 reviews

thejadylady's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I usually read books in the first person in this one is third person omniscient, so that was a little challenging for me 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Infidelity, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death and Body horror

Minor: Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Vomit, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

the animal deaths bothered me but they were shortly mentioned

eyyitsalex's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Confinement, Infidelity, Vomit, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, and Murder

kassidyreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

bookish_bridget's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Really good start to a fantasy series and I’m excited to see what happens next in this world. There was a very interesting plot twist at the end of the book which has me very curious on how the next book will play out. I found that the plot developed pretty slowly and I wish the world building was slightly more accessible because I often found myself confused about the many elements of this world. I feel like all the characters were established really well and that I have a good understand of their connections to one another. I also really enjoyed the aesthetic of this fantasy world and its dark qualities. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Infidelity, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Sexual content

All the sexual content in this book is fade to black so there isn’t anything graphic

maple_dusk's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

This book is as exactly as dark, mysterious, and intriguing as expected! Love it!

On another note, wtf Joseph. You deserve neither Mirabella nor Jules..

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Infidelity, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

Sexual content (fade-to-black scenes), Infanticide (minor)

nitecrtlvr's review against another edition

dark informative sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

As a first book it’s definitely more focused on world building and giving the reader a grasp of each character and the background/setting of how life is there and the expectations.
Due to that it is a bit of a slow read, it is written well and quite descriptive but definitely more political and not action driven.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Animal death and Body shaming

Minor: Confinement, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Religious bigotry

cc0906's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

yuidf's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death

em_davies7019's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Infidelity, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, and Vomit

Minor: Confinement and Sexual content

rinku's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

 Three Dark Crowns had so many things I love to see in YA fantasy: a predominantly female cast, main characters that have different world views, and a story with a political dimension. If it wasn’t for the flat romances, this would’ve been the perfect book for me. 

I loved the general premise of this novel so much: the three sisters Katharine, Arsinoe and Mirabella have grown up in different families and cultures on the island Fernbirn and now have to kill each other to determine who the new queen of the island will be. Those three families include the poisoners, the elementals and the naturalists, each with their own abilities. 

The whole story and the politics of the world are so intriguing. Yes, the story is slow, but I didn’t mind it. By this, we could get to know the characters and the different political groups better. I just love to see how different the lives of the three sisters are and how they and their family dealt with the situation. Furthermore, thanks to the third person view, we get more insight in what is happening around the sisters and other characters which I enjoyed so much. The settings of the story were great as well. 

Just during this first book, the sisters develop so much in different ways, and I can’t wait where the series will take their characters:

Mirabella trying to escape (and failing) was so dramatic. It was even more dramatic when Arsinoe tried the same and failed as well (which was a bit tiring tbh) and Mirabella saved her from being executed – this was Mira’s defining moment in this book. At the end, Katharine gets thrown in a gorge, but she survives it. Her returning was such a creepy and well-written moment

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I also really liked all the characters. From the sisters, I was rooting the most for Arsinoe, then Mirabella and Katharine but I would like to see them all winning. It was so interesting to see how different the sisters see specific people and how some people seemingly randomly meet each other. The thing I liked the least about this book though was the romance. Literally every girl had an insta love which was so annoying. Additionally, the guys are also all so jealous and one of them is a cheater; the only one I liked was maybe Billy. 

Nevertheless, Three Dark Crowns was a great novel and I’m excited to see how the series will continue. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content and Violence