King of the Rising

i don't know if i am going to actually review this book so much as talk around my experience with this book/series. there's a big fat (figurative) elephant at the end of this one, and it influenced the way i felt about the whole book, but it cannot be mentioned, so imma try to dance around it best i......more

tw: slavery; rape; mass suicide; lots of violent death I have never read something so bleak. I honestly don't know how I could recommend this series to someone, now having read the whole thing, as I truly think the reader should be somewhat prepared before going into something like this. I'm going to......more

3 5 Stars This was a powerful if not grim second half to this duology. I liked that this half of the story had more action and autonomy than the first half. Don't let the Caribbean setting fool you, this series is incredibly dark.......more