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Kingsbane
by Claire Legrand
4.5 stars
Kingsbane is the second book in the Epirium Trilogy - a fantasy world with a prophecy about the rising of two queens. A Sun Queen - a woman who will bring peace and prosperity, and a Blood Queen - a queen with terrible power and brings death and destruction. Rielle believes she is the Sun Queen but her powers are still growing and she doesn't yet know where they will lead her. And she has evil angel Corien whispering in her head - and he's the only one who appears to truly understand her. Centuries later Eliana is getting to grips with apparently being the prophesied Sun Queen, and understanding her connection to Rielle, the legendary Blood Queen while trying to help lead the revolution against the terrifying Emperor.
I loved this follow-up to Furyborn, and was surprised by how quickly i fell back into the world and with ease with all the characters. I continued my great love for Rielle in Kingsbane, but also grew closer to Eliana who was a little bit less self-righteous in this one, and seemed a bit more human at times. I love how morally complex Rielle is in this trilogy, and how her decisions affected the future of the world that Eliana now lives in. I found myself growing angry at times in Eliana's chapters by the way they would speak about Rielle, as there is so much more of a story about her actions that they could know, and I feel very protective over her.
This book had fantastic references to bisexuality (Rielle and Eliana are both bisexuality) and there's various times throughout the book when we meet other characters and families of all kinds of sexualities and races. There are some mentions of polyamory in this book which was interesting and I actually think the relationship between Audric, Rielle and Ludivine sometimes borders on polyamrous as it definitely seems like more than friendship. But beautiful all the same.
I loved everything that happened in this book but did find myself a bit surprised, and a tad confused, at some of the big reveals in the last parts of Eliana's story. I do think we are building up to a truly epic climax though and I cannot wait for the third and final book.
Kingsbane is the second book in the Epirium Trilogy - a fantasy world with a prophecy about the rising of two queens. A Sun Queen - a woman who will bring peace and prosperity, and a Blood Queen - a queen with terrible power and brings death and destruction. Rielle believes she is the Sun Queen but her powers are still growing and she doesn't yet know where they will lead her. And she has evil angel Corien whispering in her head - and he's the only one who appears to truly understand her. Centuries later Eliana is getting to grips with apparently being the prophesied Sun Queen, and understanding her connection to Rielle, the legendary Blood Queen while trying to help lead the revolution against the terrifying Emperor.
I loved this follow-up to Furyborn, and was surprised by how quickly i fell back into the world and with ease with all the characters. I continued my great love for Rielle in Kingsbane, but also grew closer to Eliana who was a little bit less self-righteous in this one, and seemed a bit more human at times. I love how morally complex Rielle is in this trilogy, and how her decisions affected the future of the world that Eliana now lives in. I found myself growing angry at times in Eliana's chapters by the way they would speak about Rielle, as there is so much more of a story about her actions that they could know, and I feel very protective over her.
This book had fantastic references to bisexuality (Rielle and Eliana are both bisexuality) and there's various times throughout the book when we meet other characters and families of all kinds of sexualities and races. There are some mentions of polyamory in this book which was interesting and I actually think the relationship between Audric, Rielle and Ludivine sometimes borders on polyamrous as it definitely seems like more than friendship. But beautiful all the same.
I loved everything that happened in this book but did find myself a bit surprised, and a tad confused, at some of the big reveals in the last parts of Eliana's story. I do think we are building up to a truly epic climax though and I cannot wait for the third and final book.