The ​Crown of Gilded Bones

The ​Crown of Gilded Bones by Jennifer L. Armentrout
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Gah, these books! While this one ends in less of a cliffhanger more of an exciting event, I’m still left unsettled and actually thought about immediately picking up book#4. I don’t think these books should be read back-to-back, though, for your own sanity. This book felt long in a way the previous one didn’t even. The paragraphs are long and felt a little repetitive, but that could be because we travel back and forth to the same places a few times and the descriptions from the previous book may have also been fresh in my head.

We join Poppy fresh off being handed the queen’s crown. Think that was a lot? That’s NOTHING compared to what goes down immediately after that. It’s like a sprint that begins at chapter one and didn’t let up. The rollercoaster of emotion kept me 1000% engaged, but when the dust settled it felt like.. there were no stakes? Oddly, because everyone is always under attack or removing from some horrible thing, I felt that as Poppy’s powers grew, it’s a bit like Superman where you don’t have any of that needed tension or worry for their safety. Somehow Cas is now the one I worry about, especially with the overwhelming amount of reveal/data dump at the end of this book.

I called the last book the “building the relationship” book so I guess this one is the “REVEAL!” Book because of all the information we have shoved at us at the end. I’m happy because Poppy has appeared to find a good balance between petulant child and ruler but I guess we’ll see what happens next.

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