The Wicked King by Holly Black
4.2 out of 5 Stars
Okay, so straight up- fresh from the finish- I don't know how I feel about the ending. We'll... we'll just come back to that later.
Overall, I really enjoyed The Wicked King. I really, really loved The Cruel Prince
though and at the end of the day, I couldn't bring myself to give this
one the same rating as the first one. Comparatively, I think the first
one had a much tighter grasp on the relationships between the characters
than this one did, and that made the difference between them. This was
still such a great book, and certainly, the political maneuvering that
Holly Black performs is still just as mesmerizing as it was in the first
book. There were a couple of moments when I was just like,
yeah-yeah-let's-move-on, which was a little surprising, but even then
those moments were fleeting and I was shoved right back into the thick
of the plot.The Wicked King, while not as good as the first book, was still completely enthralling and I'm curious more than anything else to see what happens in the next one. Luckily, I don't have to wait this time around.
Thanks for reading!
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