A review by shmadsie
For the Throne by Hannah Whitten

4.0

This was leaps and bounds a better book for me than For the Wolf was, because both Solmir and Neve chose good and had to choose good after making... less-than-good choices. I also liked this better because their struggle was way more internal than external. And while I could - and did - guess every single aspect of Red and Eammon's story because it was disappointingly familiar and predictable, both Solmir and Neve's felt changeable up to the very end. I didn't know what they would do - I don't think they knew what they would do - so it felt more earned when they made better decisions. I also loved Arick's fate and that he was given a better one. On the less 'yay' side of this - what I fell in love with in the first book, Fife and Lyra, were sadly barely even footnotes here (though that's kind of fair since this was Neve's story and not Red's and they were a connection through Red) and the addition of Raffe and Kayu felt shoehorned in for me. They weren't present enough to feel like three-dimensional characters and would've been better entirely left out, their few necessary parts being parceled out to different, more robust characters.