Bitterblue
Nov. 20th, 2020 05:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearBitterblue is the third Graceling book by Kristin Cashore and I'd been looking forward to listening to it, because Bitterblue was my favourite character in the first one, and this book caught up with her as queen of her realm, eight years after the end of the first book. It was fun to spend more time in this world, and good to see Bitterblue trying to figure out ways to be a better queen, as she approached adulthood. I liked her relationships with the people she met on her trips out into the city - though I'm never too keen when relationships are soured by one person discovering the other one has been in disguise and assuming they've been lying about everything, rather than just their identity.
The book also got a bit repetitive, and not much happened in the middle. It was pretty grim in places, though I should have expected that, given it was about a kingdom recovering from a thirty-year trauma.
Still, the narrator was good and the overall arc of Bitterblue's story was compelling and emotive. I enjoyed the book in the main and I'm glad I decided to see the trilogy through to the end.
The book also got a bit repetitive, and not much happened in the middle. It was pretty grim in places, though I should have expected that, given it was about a kingdom recovering from a thirty-year trauma.
Still, the narrator was good and the overall arc of Bitterblue's story was compelling and emotive. I enjoyed the book in the main and I'm glad I decided to see the trilogy through to the end.
