I'm very dissapointed in this one. The first 20 pages or so started out nicely, here's a girl and her sick father, knocking on the doors of a castle where ghosts and talking cats are common. Yet after that promising introduction, it's 450 pages of mostly bland/monotonous storyline. And when I say st...
While there were parts of this story that didn't quite grab me mostly it impressed me for a first novel. There were bits that faltered but it won't stop me from looking for book 2. The story of Wynter, fifteen, daughter of Protector Lord Lorean Moorehawke and former King's Cat-Keeper, woodworking...
It’s the characters and their relationships that really make this book. Wynter’s relationship with Prince Razi, whom she calls ‘brother’, was especially sweet. I think they behaved very much like siblings. Her sudden and irrational jealousy of Christopher, Razi’s best friend, irritated me until I re...
Just all around an excellent read. I'm looking around for the next book already, because I've actually developed a kind of concern for the three young protagonists of this book. The friendship and love between Wynter, Razi, and Christopher is sometimes the only thing that kept me going through all t...
For some reason I just could not get into the flow of the book or characters. And it ended up being just a bit too dry for me. I enjoyed the world building and overal story, butit did not pul me in.
The three books of the series are The Poison Throne, The Crowded Shadows and The Rebel Prince. I'm reviewing them together partly because it would be hard to write individual reviews without a ton of spoilers...but also because I was insanely addicted to the series and read all three books in a row,...
Celine Kiernan's The Poison Throne sets a fifteen-year-old apprentice carpenter on a hard path. When Wynter Moorehawke returns home, she expects it to be just as it was when she left five years ago. Instead, it seems as though the King has gone mad, and things that used to be so much a part of norma...
It's been so long since I read a pure fantasy book, the experience of reading THE POISON THRONE was all the more enthralling. I found myself riveted by the love and pain in this book, and read this book over the course of a day. Celine Kiernan does a good job of building her story while also picki...
Wynter comes home with her ill father after five years away to find the kingdom oppressed by their once benevolent king. What is going on? Why has he changed? And where is his son and heir and Wynter's childhood playmate, Alberon? That's the main focus of this book.The distressing situation in which...
I'm between 3 and 4 stars on this one.I would call this young adult fantasy (vs fantasy that has young adults in it). There is a lot of internalizing in this one - being afraid, trying to keep loved ones close. There's even some ghosts and talking cats. Also an insane king, politics, and cruelty. I ...
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