Dragged the whole time. Really didn’t go anywhere till the end. And it made me truly dislike Tedrose so much! The highlight was the witches, and the side characters.

this book frustrated me so much. its entire purpose is to focus on tedros and all but i feel we lose so much of agatha. i rlly dont think he needed a whole book of this especially when the second one is about him also. like, this couldve been a spin off … who cares about tedros that much? secondly, and yes, i know hes the one who has the throne by blood or whatever, but why is agatha confined to just being a feeble queen? sophie didnt get that treatment which is also fine because she can have that. but we all know agatha was absolutely dominant over tedros. Why does she get discarded like that? its a very… unique choice. I get hes meant to be king but god do i hate him after this entry. + its like he almost doesnt develop at all…

3.5

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Spoiler

I didn't know Millicent as a morgif could talk ... O.o But poor her, she deserved better. And Chaddick too! :'( And Tristan! (Though he did not die in this book.)

- That plot-twist in the end, my darlings. That. Was. Incredible. Ad well as freaking heart-shattering in a plot-twist kind of way. And that cliff-hanger ... !!
I really wanna read the next one. Soman! Get on it, please! Cheers.

Another great installment! You’ll want to have the next book ready to go - just a warning on how this one ends

... Hello Mordred, why are you not called Mordred?

No seriously. This is just basically going "I wanna use the Mordred and Morgause/Morgana plot line" and fitting it in. Not saying that that couldn't work - make Morgause the steward instead of the half sister? Yes. Awesome. But why isn't Rhian just called Mordred?? Mordred doesn't exist in that world, so the characters wouldn't be flagged, and if the author wanted to dupe the audience ... maybe mention Rhian is a fake name at the end? And Merlin wasn't suspicious ... ?

There is a lot that just makes me go "this could have been done a little better". The idea isn't bad, and some moments were great. But the plot just was so obviously Mordred based, and the author usually acknowledges the real world source material and in this case ... did not. It annoyed me.

Also, I entirely forgot about Hort, but he quickly became one of my favourite characters and I know he's with Nicola (who's cool) but I still think he should be with Sophie. I mean ... he is what she needs. He'll tolerate her to a certain extent, but he does know when to stop her. Honestly, a little more confidence and he's golden.

Anyways. I don't think past the original trilogy should really be happening, and I wasn't overly thrilled with this, but it wasn't bad enough to dissuade me from reading the next one.