Review: One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake

One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake
Narrated by Amy Landon
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I really enjoyed this sequel. We pick up a short time after book 1 leaves off with the queens back in their respective towns with their respective foster families. With each of them having survived the quickening ceremony, they have all retreated to continue plotting each other's demise. Only one queen can survive afterall. Mirabella is angry that Arsinoe attacked her at the Quickening, or so she thinks and she wants revenge on her sister. Katharine wants to kill everyone after her ordeal in the Breccia Domain with Pietyr. And Arsinoe has discovered that she has a gift afterall, even if it isn't the one she expected and she's still using Madrigal's low magic to assist her. The sisters are still oddly bonded by their love of one another from their childhood, but their upbringing and plotting around them is driving them toward the ultimate goal to kill each other.

We get to know each of the queens a little more in depth in this installment, each chapter taking place in their respective towns. The plots to take down the sister queens only gets more intricate as each of the foster families want their queen to be crowned. We get to know Jules alot better as well, she is such a bit part of Arsenoe's story, but she essentially becomes a main character herself.

It is really hard to write this review without giving too much away, there are so many things that happened in the first book and that happen in this book that tie things together. There is a ton of action, alot of plotting, and lots of surprises. I really enjoyed this and I'm looking forward to see where the next book takes us. There should be a world expansion and more plotting and chaos.  I hope we get some closure to some of the plot lines in the next book.  There were a lot of things left open, but there are plenty of hints that we'll get more information if we are patient.


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