![]() ![]() Yet more excruciating is the curse upon their experience of love, whether with siblings, parents, or friends in romance, passion, even religious devotion-all relationships are twisted, broken, abandoned, and betrayed. Blake’s already pitch-black tale shades even darker, as the queens’ cruel contest piles up an escalating (and grisly) body count. Alliances shift as the various factions play Temple against Council, and potential suitors become both rivals and pawns-but not even the Goddess can prevent the queens from deciding to take their fates into their own hands. Meanwhile, poisoner Katharine has returned from her rumored death with a vengeance…and a mission. With the rampage by Arsinoe’s bear, the naturalist candidate has demonstrated unexpected strength, and now elemental Mirabella is no longer treated as the foreordained victor. Three sisters intensify their deadly struggle for the crown in the second of a horror-tinged fantasy series.Īfter the spectacular catastrophe of the Quickening ( Three Dark Crowns, 2016), the balance of power among the queens has shifted. ![]()
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