A review by ninnabee
The Bitter Twins, by Jen Williams
5.0
It is certainly a slower start but, being completely honest, I enjoyed it either way. I love character development and how the relationships between the characters shift and change, so having them deal with new bonds (the war-beasts) and separated into those pairs I love so much gave them the opportunity and obvious set-up to develop the relationships, and it was worth it every second.
Just like in the first book, I find myself the least interested in Hestillion's chapters, but Williams always manages to keep me hooked with whatever is going on around her (like the queen, who ended up being terribly interesting) or whatever inner turmoil is going on inside her. Definitely an intriguing change.
To make it short, Bern and Aldasair are my absolute favorite and I couldn't stop either crying or giggling at every scene they got together, and I'm so, SO sad about Eri, and it makes me even more sad (and mad) that what happened made total sense.
Just like in the first book, I find myself the least interested in Hestillion's chapters, but Williams always manages to keep me hooked with whatever is going on around her (like the queen, who ended up being terribly interesting) or whatever inner turmoil is going on inside her. Definitely an intriguing change.
To make it short, Bern and Aldasair are my absolute favorite and I couldn't stop either crying or giggling at every scene they got together, and I'm so, SO sad about Eri, and it makes me even more sad (and mad) that what happened made total sense.