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I bought this book because of how much I enjoyed Blake's Anna Dressed in Blood and Girl of Nightmares. I was curious what sort of high fantasy story she might tell. I'm conflicted about writing this review because on the one hand I did not like this book. But on the other hand, I think there are a lot of people who will love it. So maybe my opinion on this one doesn't really matter.

The book is the story of 3 sisters, triplets who were separated as children and raised by different magical/political factions. Eventually the sisters will continue the land's mythic tradition of attempting to kill each other using their mystic powers (one can resist poison, one can control the elements, and one can bond with and control animals) and the survivor will be crowned queen. The story moves from sister to sister with each chapter, describing the months leading up to the ceremony which marks the beginning of open war between them.

I think the world Blake is striving to create is a dark fairy tale place, a world with strange rules aren't rational but are consistent within the confines of the story. I think many readers will enjoy that element, swept up in the wild fantasy of it, but I was bothered by the fact that her world seems poorly thought out. Though it gives the impression of a fairy tale place, it lacks the clarity and simplicity of fairy tales. Blake tries to create a more complex and nuanced world, but she never steps back to give the reader a clear view of it, so we're left with something that feels cluttered and poorly thought out. Concepts and rules pop up randomly when Blake needs a new plot device to knock the characters around with.

Choosing to follow all three sisters is ambitious, but it gets confusing as each sister is surrounded by her own cast of supporting characters, most of whom remain flat and indistinct. About a third of the way through the book I stopped trying to remember who the supporting characters were because other than a few of them (Jules, Joseph, Billy, and Pietyr), they didn't seem to matter. They were just props to torment, comfort, or provide counsel to the sisters. It seems like there's a disconnect between Blake's ambitions for the story and the format she chose to write it in. She should have cut down the number of named and recurring characters significantly, or written a much longer and more detailed book.

Lastly, this book is dark. That may seem obvious based on the premise, but there's more to it than that. There's a lot of violence and sacrifice and tragedy that seems to serve no real purpose except to put the characters through crap. The book describes the months leading up to the "action" and yet characters are disfigured, mutilated, and crippled well before there's any reason for the violence to have begun. Death and injury can be very powerful events in a story, but here it felt meaningless... and cheap. Like Blake was saying, "Hey, I've told you twenty times how nice this character is. Now I'm going to hack off her hand. But it's not going to be important or meaningful except that it'll make you feel lousy."

Or maybe the real problem is that I'm just not quite the right audience for this book because I never quite fell into the world enough to be captivated by it.


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Three Dark Crowns Kendare Blake 9781509804559 Books Reviews

So I'm going to give this book 3 stars. I just finished reading it (Dec. 28), but i bought it back in mid-October. I've always been a fan of YA novels, but lately I've found they all have generally the same plot - so when I came across this book, I was pumped for something a little different. The reason it took me so long to finish this book is 1) law school got in the way and 2) it was a very, very slow book.

I agree with the other reviews- The last 1/4 of the book is the best part and what is probably going to make me buy the next installment (whenever that comes out). The characters start to get more dynamic at the end and way more interesting. Honestly, the first half of the book could have been condensed into three chapters (one for each queen).

Overall, I'd recommend this book, but only AFTER the 2nd installment comes out. Because the first book is such a teaser to what I'm hoping is a really interesting 2nd book.
If it doesn't bother you that this book stops in the middle of the story, then you might like it. I really, really hate not being told before I start that I'd have to buy another book (at least) if I want to finish the story. It doesn't even end on a cliff hanger. It just stops.

Look at it this way. If you're driving from San Francisco to New York, the traveling will be broken up into several smaller trips that together comprise a whole journey. The author could have created a whole book that was part of an overarching story and I would have been fine with it. But she didn't. She created several characters and situations and was just starting to stir things up when the book... stops. Argh.

I found the whole premise ridiculous (Every queen has triplets who have to fight to the death to prove they have the right to be the ruler? That's the island's idea of running a government?) but I find most YA fantasy premises to be unrealistic. Even so, a skillful author can pull off a good story from a flimsy premise. The trouble was, I didn't like the characters all that much. The idea of their being family who are fated to kill each other was different enough to make me curious, but the characters didn't live up to the concept. One was too weak, one was too nice (yes, that's possible) and one was just... blah. Each one has their set of friends who frankly were more interesting than the "queens" themselves.

I wanted to like this. I was prepared to read to the end to see if it got better. But I'm not going to buy the second book. I don't trust the author to tell a complete story within the one book. She might just end in the middle of nowhere again and string me along to buy a third book. Enough already.
I was a little nervous about reading this book since there were a lot of reviews saying they could not get through it since it was so boring. I am glad I did not listen. It did take about 6 chapters for me to get the characters and the settings straight but I was so interested in the premise of the book-- triplet queen sisters who had to kill each other since only one could have the crown/rule. In this fanasty world, it seems like it is a medieval, Arthurian world with some magic in it set on an island away from the rest of the world. There has been a tradition of the queen having triplet queens with different skills (poisoner, elemental, and naturalist) that grow up together until they are five or six years old. Then they are raised separately by a family with their particular skill in 3 separate parts of the island until they turn sixteen and they go through a ceremony to demonstrate the strength of their skill to everyone. After the ceremony, the Ascension Year beings where the sisters try to kill each other. Each chapter alternates between each sisters point of view so you get attached to each of them. There is a plot twist at the end that I saw coming at the beginning of the book but it just makes me want the second book to come out sooner. I would highly recommend to Game of Throne fans and King Arthur legend fans.

I gave this book 4 out of 5 stars on Goodreads.
I bought this book because of how much I enjoyed Blake's Anna Dressed in Blood and Girl of Nightmares. I was curious what sort of high fantasy story she might tell. I'm conflicted about writing this review because on the one hand I did not like this book. But on the other hand, I think there are a lot of people who will love it. So maybe my opinion on this one doesn't really matter.

The book is the story of 3 sisters, triplets who were separated as children and raised by different magical/political factions. Eventually the sisters will continue the land's mythic tradition of attempting to kill each other using their mystic powers (one can resist poison, one can control the elements, and one can bond with and control animals) and the survivor will be crowned queen. The story moves from sister to sister with each chapter, describing the months leading up to the ceremony which marks the beginning of open war between them.

I think the world Blake is striving to create is a dark fairy tale place, a world with strange rules aren't rational but are consistent within the confines of the story. I think many readers will enjoy that element, swept up in the wild fantasy of it, but I was bothered by the fact that her world seems poorly thought out. Though it gives the impression of a fairy tale place, it lacks the clarity and simplicity of fairy tales. Blake tries to create a more complex and nuanced world, but she never steps back to give the reader a clear view of it, so we're left with something that feels cluttered and poorly thought out. Concepts and rules pop up randomly when Blake needs a new plot device to knock the characters around with.

Choosing to follow all three sisters is ambitious, but it gets confusing as each sister is surrounded by her own cast of supporting characters, most of whom remain flat and indistinct. About a third of the way through the book I stopped trying to remember who the supporting characters were because other than a few of them (Jules, Joseph, Billy, and Pietyr), they didn't seem to matter. They were just props to torment, comfort, or provide counsel to the sisters. It seems like there's a disconnect between Blake's ambitions for the story and the format she chose to write it in. She should have cut down the number of named and recurring characters significantly, or written a much longer and more detailed book.

Lastly, this book is dark. That may seem obvious based on the premise, but there's more to it than that. There's a lot of violence and sacrifice and tragedy that seems to serve no real purpose except to put the characters through crap. The book describes the months leading up to the "action" and yet characters are disfigured, mutilated, and crippled well before there's any reason for the violence to have begun. Death and injury can be very powerful events in a story, but here it felt meaningless... and cheap. Like Blake was saying, "Hey, I've told you twenty times how nice this character is. Now I'm going to hack off her hand. But it's not going to be important or meaningful except that it'll make you feel lousy."

Or maybe the real problem is that I'm just not quite the right audience for this book because I never quite fell into the world enough to be captivated by it.