baronessekat | book review (not for the reading challenge)

King's Cage by Victoria Aveyard

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I'm rather ambivalent about this book. I liked many parts of it, but in general it's my least favorite of the three thus far.

I think what made me go "eh" over it was that it would randomly change which character was narrating the story. Which, if that had been the story telling technique from book one, I'd have been more OK with it. But waiting until the third book caused me to loose interest. Same thing happened with Book three of the Divergent series.

But at least the different points of view were read by different readers, so it was easier to tell. Though I though the voice of Evangeline sounded to young, but that's a personal taste thing rather than a story telling thing.

I did like how the author continued with the exploration of Mar's PTSD and I was glad to see that she didn't dive into Stockholm Syndrome (which was a fear I had). Once a certain point was brought up by a secondary character, I totally saw how the ending was going to go, but it was a believable ending.

Will I continue with the series if there are more books? Yes. But unlike other series, I'm not sitting here refreshing the author's webpage to find out when the next book is due to be published.

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