A review by mora55
The Cracks in the Kingdom by Jaclyn Moriarty
5.0
This one kinda dragged and I like the first one far better, but I adore whenever Madeleine and Elliot communicate and Madeleine's late-night contemplation bc there's so much depth in those thoughts and conversations. Several of the Royal Youth Alliance and Belle & Jack scenes felt drawn out or unnecessary, and cutting them a little would have made things plod less?
But the whimsy and contemplation in this series is still beautiful.
(I also liked some of the narration choices in the scenes that ping-pong between Elliot and Madeleine, having the Elliot narrator sometimes read the lines I would have attributed to the Madeleine narrator and vice versa, though I would have preferred to read it in print over audio.)
But the whimsy and contemplation in this series is still beautiful.
(I also liked some of the narration choices in the scenes that ping-pong between Elliot and Madeleine, having the Elliot narrator sometimes read the lines I would have attributed to the Madeleine narrator and vice versa, though I would have preferred to read it in print over audio.)