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King’s Cage, Where I Wish The Beginning Was Better

The Book:

King's Cage cover pulled form Goodreads, Light blue backgorund in the middle fading into a darker blue gradient on the edges, A white crown dripping red and silver blood, King's cage in black letters with Victoria Averyard's name in white letter. All Will Burn written in white on the bottom,
King’s Cage cover pulled form Goodreads

Title: King’s Cage

Author: Victoria Aveyard

Series: Red Queen #3

Published February 7th 2017 by HarperTeen

Genre: YA, Fantasy

Pages: 528

“In this breathless third installment to Victoria Aveyard’s bestselling Red Queen series, allegiances are tested on every side. And when the Lightning Girl’s spark is gone, who will light the way for the rebellion?

Mare Barrow is a prisoner, powerless without her lightning, tormented by her lethal mistakes. She lives at the mercy of a boy she once loved, a boy made of lies and betrayal. Now a king, Maven Calore continues weaving his dead mother’s web in an attempt to maintain control over his country—and his prisoner.

As Mare bears the weight of Silent Stone in the palace, her once-ragtag band of newbloods and Reds continue organizing, training, and expanding. They prepare for war, no longer able to linger in the shadows. And Cal, the exiled prince with his own claim on Mare’s heart, will stop at nothing to bring her back.

When blood turns on blood, and ability on ability, there may be no one left to put out the fire—leaving Norta as Mare knows it to burn all the way down.” –Goodreads

My Review:

*Contains minor spoilers to previous books soooooo dont read if you have not read the others*

AGH Victoria I want to love you so bad, but the beginnings of your books are soooo boring.

Red Queen was great. But the sequel and this book were oh so boring at the beginning.

Aveyard’s endings are awesome and action-packed, but it is taking me months to finish these books because of how much the books repeat the exact same thing. Glass Sword was not half as bad as this one.

But literally, nothing happened. Mare remains locked up for ages. The switch to the multiple POVs was cool, but not when it was Cameron’s point of view, only Evangeline’s. Cameron is supposed to show what’s going on while Mare isn’t there but honestly, her parts always made me put the book down cause she just doesn’t do anything.

But let me say the thing Aveyard does right is the TENSION. I have tried not to say anything like this because people will think I am crazy, but Maven and Mare could still be together in my opinion. I love Mare and Cal, don’t get me wrong. But sometimes I feel like I am going to get a plot twist about Maven and Mare.

The ending of the book was so worth it though.

It had action, climax, fighting, all the good stuff! When I finished this book I almost immediately jumped to the next book. I had to leave for my program a week later and I knew I wasn’t going to finish it. I will start it when I get back.

I hope the next book is not boring in the beginning because it is super long, and I am super nervous. I have to read Realm Breaker and Blade Breaker when I get back too. So I have a lot of Aveyard coming up. Stay tuned for that.

As always, thanks for reading,

A Bookie

Star Rating: 3.5

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

(I also just found out you can do half stars on this!!!)

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Red Queen: My First Aveyard

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THE BOOK:

Title: Red Queen

Author: Victoria Aveyard

Series: Red Queen #1

Published February 10th, 2015 by HarperTeen

Genre: Fantasy, YA, Sci-Fi

Pages: 383

“This is a world divided by blood—red or silver. The Reds are commoners, ruled by a Silver elite in possession of god-like superpowers. And to Mare Barrow, a seventeen-year-old Red girl from the poverty-stricken Stilts, it seems like nothing will ever change. That is until she finds herself working in the Silver Palace. Here, surrounded by the people she hates the most, Mare discovers that, despite her red blood, she possesses a deadly power of her own. One that threatens to destroy the balance of power. Fearful of Mare’s potential, the Silvers hide her in plain view, declaring her a long-lost Silver princess, now engaged to a Silver prince. Despite knowing that one misstep would mean her death, Mare works silently to help the Red Guard, a militant resistance group, and bring down the Silver regime. But this is a world of betrayal and lies, and Mare has entered a dangerous dance—Reds against Silvers, prince against prince, and Mare against her own heart.” -Goodreads

MY REVIEW:

Plotwise this book had everything. Characterwise this book had everything. Romancewise this book had everything. This book was everything I wanted and more!

Before reading this, I was in a total reading slump. I had five books on my book cart begging to be read, but they did not entice me. I thought, “Okay, let’s try one more attempt at recovery.” I grabbed the first book on my shelf, something new, something fresh. I had never read Aveyard’s work before. I had attempted to read this one a long time ago, but it became overdue at the library and I had no care to continue on.

But damn how I have missed out!

From the moment I picked up this book, I devoured it. I began reading it last week and then just finished today. I have not finished a book in a week since Summer. School has been kicking my butt and this was the perfect escape.

The plot was exciting. Aveyard is a temptress. She brings you into the story with vivid details and then smashes your face into the Silver’s diamond walls with twists and turns. I got to see the seedy underbelly of the elite in this society, and I want more.

Whenever I started getting comfortable with the storyline, thinking: “What else could possibly happen?” I was thrown into a whole new hole and sunk deeper and deeper into the story.

The graphics in my mind were so amazing. Aveyard found the sweet spot when it came to describing the setting. It wasn’t overcontrolling but it wasn’t so little I could have thought of anything and it would fit. The imagery wrapped around me like a nicely fitting glove.

Mare Barrow, the main character, excites me, infuriates me, and charms me in every word of the story. She goes from peasant Red in rags to noble Silver in silks. We, as readers, see the internal struggle she feels working with her enemies. We feel all of her emotions as we go through the story.

The kind, sweet-hearted Maven was my favorite character. Emphasis on the was. I was really rooting for him throughout the book. I wanted the second child to get some sort of recognition in this book. He was handsome, smart, and emotionally available for Mare. Again, emphasis on the past tense.

Cal infuriates me. Yeah, I said it. He is annoying and I do not root for him. He stands against everything Mare stands for, which I am always going to be on Mare’s side, and that makes him a little punk in my mind.

The other side characters were amazing. Everyone was well developed, no matter who they were and if they only showed up once or twice. I got to love almost everyone in this book.

I think this book was super entertaining. I have heard that it might be made into a TV show or movie. I would die! I think that it would be so cool to see the story of Mare Barrow brought to the big screen.

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As always, thanks for reading

A Bookie

MY RATING:

Rating: 5 out of 5.