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Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake
1.0

Unfortunately this was another big DNF for me.

Three Dark Crowns is about 3 young sisters who have powers. They try and compete to fight to the death, until one lone remains and that one sister becomes queen.

When I first read the synopsis I thought I was sold. 3 sisters check, wanting to become queen check, AND fighting to the death double check! This book sounds so interesting, but I wasn’t interested from the start.

From the first page I was definitely confused. I can’t even explain it. I was just thoroughly confused. Nothing made sense to me, and the way they were flipping from sister to sister was done in a poor manor.

The world building in this book isn’t anything special nor is it very good. Going back to what I said about being confused, the world building was pretty bad in this book. When something important or of use about worlds was mentioned I really didn’t understand. The author didn’t explain the world enough, and she definitely didn’t give it anything special.

The characters in the books were hard to follow and get into. I felt as though all the sisters was made to be hate able characters. I just didn’t like them one bit. They weren’t fun to read about, and certainly weren’t anything special, let alone mortally interesting.

The story is also to show. I was so damn bored during the page duration I read. Their wasn’t anything that remotely interested me within what I read, and this book actually put me into a big, fat, reading slump.

All of this is hence why I DNF’ed it, and gave this book 1 star.