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Two Twisted Crowns (The Shepherd King, #2)
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I'm debating on how to rate this book.
One Dark Window remains my forever favorite of the duology. Can the last 25% of the book cover the rest 75% of the book that was meh?
Okay hear me out. If the last chapters were included in One dark window it would be an EPIC standalone. But now? It robbed me everything. Well, almost.
Let me get this straight okay?
I didn't care for Ione's and Elm's romance. Like at all.
The head bopping to the chapters and characters was so confusing that I thought multiple times on dnfing it.
Nightmare was an EXCELLENT choice but Elspeth was absent.
See what I did there? I didn't concluded my thoughts and you get bits and pieces of the book. That was the whole structure of Two twisted crowns. Whenever it built up tension in Elspeth's or Ravyn's story, it'd deflated like a water balloon, with Elm's romance that honestly I couldn't care less.
The Plot
Plot-wise, the book was AWESOME! The story thickens as we're progressing to the hunting of the last Providence cards and the unison of the Deck in the end was a chef's kiss. Even though, I'd predicted soon enough that (view spoiler) nevertheless it was done beautifully.
The Characters
For me the major problem, were the characters. Whereas Elm was already a favorite, I didn't care for Ione. I pitied her in the first book, hated her in the second. In the majority of the book, she's looking for her Maiden Card with Elm's help, who falls in love with her wayyyyyyyy too early -yes, insta love, I know, I hate it too- and to be honest okay you want to go there? Hint at it to One Dark Window. Otherwise, don't do it. At all.
Elspeth was absent. I read somewhere that Two Twisted Crowns was her book. No. It wasn't. It was Nightmare's/Taxus' book and oh boy how I loved it.
For me, Nightmare was the character with the most character growth. Reading his backstory and watching him realizing his mistakes, owning them and doing something to rectify them was the cherry on top.
Overall it was a really good book, but it could have be a greater book. I can't wait to read her next book, The Knight and the moth, which I believe will be out on May 2025.
One Dark Window remains my forever favorite of the duology. Can the last 25% of the book cover the rest 75% of the book that was meh?
Okay hear me out. If the last chapters were included in One dark window it would be an EPIC standalone. But now? It robbed me everything. Well, almost.
Let me get this straight okay?
I didn't care for Ione's and Elm's romance. Like at all.
The head bopping to the chapters and characters was so confusing that I thought multiple times on dnfing it.
Nightmare was an EXCELLENT choice but Elspeth was absent.
See what I did there? I didn't concluded my thoughts and you get bits and pieces of the book. That was the whole structure of Two twisted crowns. Whenever it built up tension in Elspeth's or Ravyn's story, it'd deflated like a water balloon, with Elm's romance that honestly I couldn't care less.
The Plot
Plot-wise, the book was AWESOME! The story thickens as we're progressing to the hunting of the last Providence cards and the unison of the Deck in the end was a chef's kiss. Even though, I'd predicted soon enough that (view spoiler) nevertheless it was done beautifully.
The Characters
For me the major problem, were the characters. Whereas Elm was already a favorite, I didn't care for Ione. I pitied her in the first book, hated her in the second. In the majority of the book, she's looking for her Maiden Card with Elm's help, who falls in love with her wayyyyyyyy too early -yes, insta love, I know, I hate it too- and to be honest okay you want to go there? Hint at it to One Dark Window. Otherwise, don't do it. At all.
Elspeth was absent. I read somewhere that Two Twisted Crowns was her book. No. It wasn't. It was Nightmare's/Taxus' book and oh boy how I loved it.
For me, Nightmare was the character with the most character growth. Reading his backstory and watching him realizing his mistakes, owning them and doing something to rectify them was the cherry on top.
Overall it was a really good book, but it could have be a greater book. I can't wait to read her next book, The Knight and the moth, which I believe will be out on May 2025.
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Reading Progress
December 9, 2022
– Shelved
December 9, 2022
– Shelved as:
to-read
September 13, 2024
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Started Reading
September 17, 2024
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33.41%
"Ok, Hauth is bad. Why? I feel like he's bad just for the sake of being bad. I'm not feeling it rn...."
page
146
September 17, 2024
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35.01%
"Ok, don't get me wrong. Chapter 20 was HOT!
And I love me some Elm and Ione. But this book feels a lot like, Elm and Ione's companion novel, which I wanted to happen and less than the second book.
Don't get me wrong, but it feels like she ran out of ideas of how to finish the duology."
page
153
And I love me some Elm and Ione. But this book feels a lot like, Elm and Ione's companion novel, which I wanted to happen and less than the second book.
Don't get me wrong, but it feels like she ran out of ideas of how to finish the duology."
September 18, 2024
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42.79%
"Dear author, if you remind me one more time what rotten Prince and piss-poor Destrier Elm is, I swear to you, I'm going to hurl the book to the wall...
Do you, by any chance, know any other words? Any other characterizations?
Sincerely, a tired reader"
page
187
Do you, by any chance, know any other words? Any other characterizations?
Sincerely, a tired reader"
September 20, 2024
–
63.16%
"If something happens to Jespyr, I'm going to stop reading it!"
page
276
September 23, 2024
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Finished Reading
