The Crown of Gilded Bones
Bow Before Your Queen Or Bleed Before Her...
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout comes book three in her Blood and Ash series.
She's been the victim and the survivor...
Poppy never dreamed she would find the love she's found with Prince Casteel. She wants to revel in her happiness but first they must free his brother and find hers. It's a dangerous mission and one with far-reaching consequences neither dreamed of. Because Poppy is the Chosen, the Blessed. The true ruler of Atlantia. She carries the blood of the King of Gods within her. By right the crown and the kingdom are hers.
The enemy and the warrior...
Poppy has only ever wanted to control her own life, not the lives of others, but now she must choose to either forsake her birthright or seize the gilded crown and become the Queen of Flesh and Fire. But as the kingdoms' dark sins and blood-drenched secrets finally unravel, a long-forgotten power rises to pose a genuine threat. And they will stop at nothing to ensure that the crown never sits upon Poppy's head.
A lover and heartmate...
But the greatest threat to them and to Atlantia is what awaits in the far west, where the Queen of Blood and Ash has her own plans, ones she has waited hundreds of years to carry out. Poppy and Casteel must consider the impossible-travel to the Lands of the Gods and wake the King himself. And as shocking secrets and the harshest betrayals come to light, and enemies emerge to threaten everything Poppy and Casteel have fought for, they will discover just how far they are willing to go for their people-and each other.
And now she will become Queen...
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Community Reviews
Normally I go through audiobooks / books really quickly but this one took me a week to read. I had to keep putting it down and reading something else.
There were parts of this book that were incredibly slow, and those parts did nothing to add to either character development or the overall plot. This is incredibly disheartening since this is the third book in the series, one would think we'd see some huge character developments, especially with Poppy, but we didn't get that.
Overall, I was extremely disappointed because this series is hyped up so much, but I am beginning to think it isn't worth continuing.
Then the middle came, and there was a lot of world building and Inner Poppy monologues and smut and more smut, and while I loved seeing Atlantia and Poppy growing into her eventual role as queen, I’ll admit it was a bit repetitive. I still enjoyed it because it all shows how Poppy grows and thinks and becomes the Queen of Flesh and Fire and in my opinion, that’s a large part of what these books are about.
And we were rewarded with a fantastic, high paced, ending that left me shaken at the end. I will be anxiously awaiting book 4. I feel a lot of things that were setup in this book will come to fruition in the next book (the Unseen, the prophecy, etc).
My only complaint and why I’m rating it 4.5 instead of 5 is that, after a while, all the smut got really repetitive and boring and i was sick of it interrupting the story. I mean, I love the passion, but EVERY single time they even look at each other, it’s pointed out that there’s “indecent” arousal happening. Even in the midst of really plot important discussions between characters, we get interrupted with paragraphs of how horny they are for each other. And it always seemed to be the same. I think the next book could tone that down and few would complain.
SPOILER: I’m actually excited to see part of the next book where Poppy and Cas are separated. I think that will be a refreshing change.
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