However, in One Dark Throne Katherine had such a dark turn (which I think we’re definitely going to learn more about in book #3) and her storyline wasn’t as interesting, she most certainly was nothing close to being a nice character. Her storyline was definitely one of the more interesting ones, with the poising training and ingesting. If in the first book I would have known that Katherine was going to be crowned queen, I would have been somewhat happy – especially considering what she went through. The questions, therefore, still remains whether Katherine would then be a naturalist – although this still isn’t covered in One Dark Throne, although it would make sense. her and Katherine were switches at birth and placed “assigned” the wrong powers. * Spoiler Warning * If you haven’t read Three Dark Crowns or One Dark Throne do not read any further.Īt the end of Three Dark Crowns we learn that Arsinoe is a poisoner – i.e. I can say that the sequel was amazing, I gave it a 4★ and definitely enjoyed it. I can’t say too much else without spoiling it for it. Because Three Dark Crowns does such a good job at explaining the characters and land, the sequel never feels overwhelming even though so much is going on.

There is never a dull moment in this book, so many things start to happen at once, especially the last quarter of it where it turns quite intense. One Dark Throne picks up right after the events of Three Dark Crowns and it hits the ground running. The first book is definitely slower at the start, which happens in most fantasy novels as the ground-work needs to be laid and I have uploaded a Review for it, so I won’t go into it much further here. The story also is definitely centred on the 3 sisters lives as they learn to develop their powers and also being raised knowing that one day they’ll have to kill their siblings. It’s definitely a darker fantasy and very matriarchal, where the women are most certainly in power. This is where basically to story in the first novel commences. The year the triplets turn 16 they battle with each-other to the death the winner, of course, is then crowned Queen.

The three triplets are separated, therefore, to different parts of the Island to be raised by those with similar powers. The reason for this is because, in this Kingdom/Island, each generation the queen gives birth to triplets – all of which have different powers. In Three Dark Crown we follow 3 sister whom were separated at a very young age. I’ll then go into this sequel giving away a few spoilers – but don’t worry, I’ll put a “warning” before-hand for those who have not read it. In this review I’m going to first go-over the first book in this series, covering what it is about in a non-spoiler manner. This is the sequel to Three Dark Crowns – released last year.

One dark crown