Graceley Knox

Crown of Betrayal

Elisa Bieg

Pretty good sequel. 
The story itself and this book’s plot could easily deserve 4 stars or even 5, but I have a few issues with the execution.

 What I liked: 
• all the intrigue and the slowly unveiled prophecy and mystery
• the setting in the fae kingdoms
• how Ever’s relationship is developing, and the fact that it is woven into the plot and not the other way around
• the fact that the secondary characters had a bit more of a role

 What I didn’t like:
• the typos/grammatical errors
• the cringey language during sex scenes (less, but still too much)
• the world building could use some work. It’s faerie FFS, let’s paint a bit of a picture, shall we? It sounds about as magical as landing at JFK.
• Ever’s language and attitude, which is frankly too much at times. I do a fair amount of swearing myself and I totally get the whole “I’m my own woman, and I don’t give a crap if you like it or not” but honestly, the way she expresses herself feels like it was overdone for shock value at times, and what sucks is that it’s distracting. It could stand to be tuned down a bit. I believe in the expressive value of a well-placed “fuck”, but if one starts sounding like she went browsing through UrbanDictionary.com for dialogue inspiration, I think that’s a little much. 
Swear words should enhance the expression of the concept, not distract from it. 
So there 😁

I am going to go straight into the third book because I want to know WTF is going to happen with the whole mess of prophecies and crazies and all, and I have no time to waste! Only got KU for 2 1/2 more days!

Crown of Betrayal

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