![]() ![]() The characters face real danger from each other but also the powers that be. I wrote about Three Dark Crowns by Blake a few weeks ago and I must say that One Dark Throne was even better! If anything it was even more brutal than the first installment. Why I liked One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake ![]() She reaches into the cage to stroke the rodent’s tiny bald haunches. ![]() ‘Once I was a mouse,’ she says, and strips off her glove. She offers it a cracker through the bars of its cage, and it creeps forward, sniffing, afraid to eat it. It is blind in one eye, and mostly bald from Katharine’s rubbed poisons. She taps the cage on the corner of her desk to rouse the small gray mouse inside. It has been more than a month since she had to claw her way up and out of the hearth of the island, and now Katharine can withstand anything… “The belladonna berries roll in Katharine’s stomach, but she does not wince. With one of them to be crowned by the end of the year, who will win and who will be dead? ![]() The triplet queens are back and this time they are ready to fulfill their destiny. One Dark Throne, the second installment in Kendare Blake’s brutal fantasy series, is the beginning of the end. One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake Rating – 4.75 out of 5 ![]()
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