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