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A review by yogicath
Winter Queen by Skye MacKinnon
5.0
This is book three of the Daughter of Winter series and the main character Wyn, is dealing badly with the news of her adoptive mother’s cruel death at the hands of the Morrigan. War is coming and the Morrigan is controlling all the demons, whilst the King of Summer, Angus, is trying yet again to take the power of the seasons all for himself. Wyn must face the Library of Lives again, after she allows herself to wallow in her grief and anger for too long and uses a unicorn’s sparklies to allow her to forget. She has been ignoring the bond between her and her four sexy Guardians and thought she could become ice cold like her birth mother, Queen Beira, to cope. She is able to think in the clam of the library, where she is to decide if she wants to live or die. She has bottled up her magic so much, that it has flared out and destroyed part of the palace. Her mother has been weakened further by her efforts to save everyone and still has Wyn to save, if Wyn wants to live. She soon realises how much she needs her men, Storm, Frost, Arc, and even Crispin, who may not want her after all the hurt she has laid on him!
Wyn must take over her mother’s duties and make sure everyone is prepared for war and search for any allies she can find amongst the Gods and Goddesses. The Queen of Spring, Flora, sends a messenger to her court and seeks to speak to the Queen in person, which brings the chance of an alliance with an army and realm once loyal to Angus. She knows practically none of them and must invite them to a party, so they can enjoy meeting her and others, whilst also talking of such a serious matter. She has a God training her on her unexpected new power and also finds herself developing a deeper bond with some of her Guardians. Crispin is still suffering from the things he did on behalf of the Morrigan and needs reassurance from Wyn that she doesn’t hate him for all the things she made him do. The Morrigan always seems to be ten steps ahead of everyone else and was created to be the strongest out there, and her next trick nearly sees Wyn assassinated again, by someone she thought she could trust implicitly. But not everyone is who they seem, as she will find out!
Three of her Guardians go to scout out a location given to them by a trusted source, that will hopefully lead them to where the Morrigan is hiding and maybe even where Wyn’s father is being held. Her Guardians may be well trained and brave and would do anything for her, but they are no match for the Morrigan herself. If they run into her on their scouting expedition, their lives could be forfeit and Wyn would lose three of her four loves. Wyn is able to get glimpses of what one of her Guardians is seeing, but that just shows them reaching a destination. The next glimpse shows them in mortal danger and Wyn must rush to help them if she can. Only her mother and Angus have the power to teleport people and themselves to locations, but as we are finding out, Wyn is not limited to the usual rules about Demigoddesses when it comes to her powers and new ones seem to appear, either at the worst possible time, or just when she needs them! The lives of her three Guardians are on a knives edge at the end of this book and finding her true strength and being able to fully control of her magic, may be the only thing that can save them all. Her bond with these three men is the strongest it could be and they share so much through their bond. I hope to see more happen because of their growing bonds to each other and hope it will make a difference in the war to come against the twin forces of Angus and the Morrigan! This should have been the last book in this series, but there is still more to come for the main characters and a war to be won. I can’t wait to read the final book in the series. I received an ARC copy of this book from BookSprout and I have freely given my own opinion of the book above.
Wyn must take over her mother’s duties and make sure everyone is prepared for war and search for any allies she can find amongst the Gods and Goddesses. The Queen of Spring, Flora, sends a messenger to her court and seeks to speak to the Queen in person, which brings the chance of an alliance with an army and realm once loyal to Angus. She knows practically none of them and must invite them to a party, so they can enjoy meeting her and others, whilst also talking of such a serious matter. She has a God training her on her unexpected new power and also finds herself developing a deeper bond with some of her Guardians. Crispin is still suffering from the things he did on behalf of the Morrigan and needs reassurance from Wyn that she doesn’t hate him for all the things she made him do. The Morrigan always seems to be ten steps ahead of everyone else and was created to be the strongest out there, and her next trick nearly sees Wyn assassinated again, by someone she thought she could trust implicitly. But not everyone is who they seem, as she will find out!
Three of her Guardians go to scout out a location given to them by a trusted source, that will hopefully lead them to where the Morrigan is hiding and maybe even where Wyn’s father is being held. Her Guardians may be well trained and brave and would do anything for her, but they are no match for the Morrigan herself. If they run into her on their scouting expedition, their lives could be forfeit and Wyn would lose three of her four loves. Wyn is able to get glimpses of what one of her Guardians is seeing, but that just shows them reaching a destination. The next glimpse shows them in mortal danger and Wyn must rush to help them if she can. Only her mother and Angus have the power to teleport people and themselves to locations, but as we are finding out, Wyn is not limited to the usual rules about Demigoddesses when it comes to her powers and new ones seem to appear, either at the worst possible time, or just when she needs them! The lives of her three Guardians are on a knives edge at the end of this book and finding her true strength and being able to fully control of her magic, may be the only thing that can save them all. Her bond with these three men is the strongest it could be and they share so much through their bond. I hope to see more happen because of their growing bonds to each other and hope it will make a difference in the war to come against the twin forces of Angus and the Morrigan! This should have been the last book in this series, but there is still more to come for the main characters and a war to be won. I can’t wait to read the final book in the series. I received an ARC copy of this book from BookSprout and I have freely given my own opinion of the book above.