It creates a suspense and tension throughout both retelling of the past and current events that will ultimately collide. There is a connective tissue running between it all that challenges readers to connect, knowing the characters haven’t a clue. How Blake spins Fennbirn and the Blue Queen’s history, while moving other characters forward keeps the pace smooth. The thrill of the game is not lost due to a lack of action. Even the main characters that remain, have dramatically changed course and are on much different paths than where they started.īlake’s writing skills prove to be just as meticulous and enticing within these new parameters. There are many new locals, characters and plot lines to explore. Outside of having some main characters, very little of the structure, tone and setting remains.

It is nothing like Three Dark Crowns or One Dark Throne. Two Dark Reigns is the middle child of the Three Dark Crowns series, and it shows.

Now, welcome to the next installment of my Three Dark Crowns buddy read with Allisa at Alissa White’s book Blog (Review Linked).

If you don’t want to know about Three Dark Crowns or One Dark Throne, then So, again, you are safe for Two Dark Reigns (and obviously Five Dark Fates because I haven’t read it yet). There just isn’t away around it that I could find and since this is a backlist series- maybe it doesn’t matter but, obviously, I want to warn everyone. Obviously, there WILL NOT be spoilers for Two Dark Reigns.īut there are spoilers for the former two books in the Three Dark Thrones series. This is her story.MAJOR DISCLAIMER: At this point I don’t know how to do this without spoilers for Three Dark Crowns and One Dark Throne (reviews for both linked). Or at least, that is how the tale is told. She was overcome by paranoia and false visions, driven past the brink by the phantom thoughts of others in her head, so she set upon the capital with bloody ruin, murdering whole houses, whole family lines, without trial. This is the tale of the last sight-gift queen to be allowed to live. It is a harsh sentence, but necessary, for it is well-known that in a queen the sight gift will run strong. This had been the practice for hundreds of years, so long that few were even born any more, as if the Goddess knew it would be a waste. The Oracle Queen - historically, baby queens born with the sight gift were drowned. It's also the story of the day they were torn apart and the immediate years that followed before the opening of Three Dark Crowns. The Young Queens is the story of the three queens when they were born, before they were separated - it gives a short glimpse of the time when they all lived together, loved each other and protected one another.

Queens of Fennbirn contains two gripping stories from the New York Times bestselling Three Dark Crowns universe, written by Kendare Blake.

Queens of Fennbirn by Kendare Blake