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A Kingdom of Flame and Fury by Whitney Dean
3.0
If I had to describe this book in one word, it would be frustrating. I loved the characters that Whitney Dean created (even the supporting characters were well-developed and complex), and just wanted more from them.
Raven is our female main character with a mysterious past and even more mysterious powers. While this was explored, it was relatively ignored in the whole middle of the book to focus on her relationships with two men who she can not function without. The love triangle was drawn out to the point where it was cringey, and I was so fed up with all three of them by the end of the book.
What this lacks the most is balance. While the love triangle was given too much focus, there was so much potential for more political nuance and we barely got any. The middle of the book is very slow, and it could have ended about 2/3 of the way through if the main characters just communicated. As a reader, the dual POVS let us know where they were both coming from, but they were so immature in their relationship that it was dragged on for so much longer than it needed to be and was never really resolved.
This ended on a cliffhanger, but I’m just not sure that I care about any of the characters enough to read the next book.
Raven is our female main character with a mysterious past and even more mysterious powers. While this was explored, it was relatively ignored in the whole middle of the book to focus on her relationships with two men who she can not function without. The love triangle was drawn out to the point where it was cringey, and I was so fed up with all three of them by the end of the book.
What this lacks the most is balance. While the love triangle was given too much focus, there was so much potential for more political nuance and we barely got any. The middle of the book is very slow, and it could have ended about 2/3 of the way through if the main characters just communicated. As a reader, the dual POVS let us know where they were both coming from, but they were so immature in their relationship that it was dragged on for so much longer than it needed to be and was never really resolved.
This ended on a cliffhanger, but I’m just not sure that I care about any of the characters enough to read the next book.