Two Dark Reigns (Three Dark Crowns, 3)
#1 New York Times bestselling author Kendare Blake returns with the highly anticipated third book in the Three Dark Crowns series! And while Arsinoe, Mirabella, and Katharine all have their own scores to settle, there is another queen stirring things up on Fennbirn Island.
Queen Katharine has waited her entire life to wear the crown. But now that she finally has it, the murmurs of dissent grow louder by the day. There’s also the alarming issue of whether her sisters are actually dead—or if they’re waiting in the wings to usurp the throne.
Mirabella and Arsinoe are alive, but in hiding on the mainland and dealing with a nightmare of their own: being visited repeatedly by a specter they think might be the fabled Blue Queen. Though she says nothing, her rotting, bony finger pointing out to sea is clear enough: return to Fennbirn.
Jules, too, is in a strange place—in disguise. And her only confidants, a war-gifted girl named Emilia and her oracle friend Mathilde, are urging her to take on a role she can’t imagine filling: a legion-cursed queen who will lead a rebel army to Katharine’s doorstep.
This is an uprising that the mysterious Blue Queen may have more to do with than anyone could have guessed—or expected.
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Community Reviews
Frankly, I found the title to be misleading. I expected it to be regarding the current Queens or even Jules, but to use the Blue Queen as the second queen for the naming of this book was unfortunate and disappointing. I kept expecting something to actually happen to Katharine in this book and for one of the other characters to take over and start their dark reign, but nothing even close to that happened.
I appreciate the bond attempting to be built between Mirabella and Arsinoe, but it kind of felt flat. With Arsinoe constantly commenting about how suited Mirabella is to the mainland and Mirabella constantly mentioning how she has to protect Arsinoe, it felt like a resentment-filled bond more than one fueled by sibling love.
I really liked the idea of Arsinoe and Mirabella needing to return to the island, though, I had wished it was more influenced by the need to be who they are. Mirabella, specifically, is heavily tied to her magic and was missing a part of herself in coming to the mainland so I wish that had been a larger dynamic for her throughout this book.
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