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Broken Throne by Victoria Aveyard

4 reviews

mbrogs2024's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional funny reflective sad 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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ladybug12793's review against another edition

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

2.25

Completely pointless. Don’t bother. Seriously.

2.25 ⭐️ (that’s generous)

This entire book could have been summarized in a 30 page epilogue and added to the last book. Most of it was just a bunch of internal monologuing and pointless additions. Literally what was the point of the “World Behind” section? I thought those random new characters would come in to play later, but no. This was a complete and total waste of time. Feels like a money grab.

Do yourself a favor and don’t read this. All you need to know is that it is a HEA.
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ameydireads's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

"We destroy. We rebuild. We destroy again. It is the constant of our kind. We are all a god's chosen, and we are all a god's cursed."

I liked how this book is bundled. On one hand we have several short stories and on the other hand Julian’s journal where he talks about the history of this world.
Queen Song is about Cal’s mother and focuses on how she meets Cal’s father and how she deals with Elara. I thought this story was particularly sad,
because we see more and more signs of Elara messing with her mind as the story proceeds. Tiberias VI even knows about this!

"Speaking of punishment—if Elara whispers to you again, you show her the same courtesy."
"She knows, as everyone else knows, that my father will call for Queenstrial soon. I don't doubt she's wriggled into every maiden's head, to learn her enemies and her prey."

And to think that Tiberias VI eventually ends up marrying Elara is very disturbing and it shows how devastating Elara’s powers really are.


There were of course more short stories! I was very happy to read the stories about Evangeline, Cal, Maven and Mare even though Mare was sometimes frustrating. Give Cal a break, jeez… 
And Maven’s final conversion with Cal made me very emotional. 

In short, I’m happy to have read the Red Queen series but I’m sad to let it go now.
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kingspite618's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

not to be dramatic but the Farewell chapter has shaped me as a person in utterly fucked up ways and also rearranged my brain chemicals and perception of brotherhood forever thanks a lot! aside from that, this book ate and left no crumbs (which is no easy thing to do for a series' sequel)
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