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☆☆2.5 Stars☆☆

Power seduces all, and it makes us blind.

This book was my most wanted book. I wanted to read this book more than anything. Anything!! When I got my hands on this, I was kind of...repenting. Repenting on what I was wanting.
First of all, this book's beginning was different from Glass Sword's which was kind of very slow. Beginning of this book was looking breath-taking. I thought I would get more than I wanted. But this book couldn't be able to give what I even expected.

OVERVIEW
Book begins exactly where the last book ended. Mare is on the edge of death (apparently) but rather than killing her, Maven sets her for a propaganda. He sets her for every bad deed he will be going to commit.
The main development in this book is HISTORY. We get to know more about the world, how it came into existence, how the discrimination of the world was made, how the war was first started and for what etc...
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This book has completely changed what I was thinking. I thought this book would have more on war between Lakeland and Norta. But I was completely wrong. That war just ended in two to three lines.
Now Lakeland is the ally of Norta against the rebellion which is led by the Grandmother of Cal, the rightful heir to the throne.
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THINGS I DIDN'T LIKE
=> When I saw Maven didn't kill Mare, I was shocked. Then I thought 'Maven couldn't be that kind. Oh! He is Elara's son after all. He will must make her suffer more than she deserves'. But NO. Her punishment was only to wear manacles made of silent stone. With manacles, she was allowed to live like a princess.

=> This book is the most boring book I have ever read. Really! Except for 4 to 5 chapters, this book is a total junk. Useless! Just to waste pages (by which most of the trees could have been saved..lol) and to fill the so-called 3rd book in the series of 4 books. I am not quite understanding this! What is the point in making the series of 4 books? 3 or 2 sounds a lot better for this type of story.

=> Mare, I am beginning to hate her more. The more I was reading her, the more I found myself hating her. She always thinks that everyone is trying to kill her. Her thinking is soo over! Kind of exaggerated. Or at one moment she is willing to be killed and another she is afraid of being killed. She is such a confusion. At least for me.

=> Whenever there is the name of Maven, there must be the name of her mother. Like I don't know Maven is Elara's son. Why there is a need of constant reminder!

=> Cameron, she is more insufferable than Mare. Her POV is a true torture for me. Her POV is supposed to show us the proceedings of Scarlet Guard as Mare is in Maven's so-called Cage. That's okay and I completely understand it. But when this book tells her background, that's not okay for me. Why would I want to know that. She isn't even one of main characters. She is just a filler. This thing just helps in making the book more insufferable.

=> I didn't like how this book has changed Evengeline. Well, I couldn't get the point in doing so. That could have been different.
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=> Cal, why the heck he has chaged in the ending. Oh sorry! I forgot! This book was warning me. But I wasn't expecting him actually doing it.
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THINGS I LIKED
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=> Interrogation of Mare by Samson, that was kind of replay of the previous books. I liked that.

=> History of the world

=> Death scene of Samson, the fight of Samson with Cal and Mare was excellently written.

=> Cal rescuing Mare with Scarlet Guard, that was my favourite portion of the entire novel.

=> 2nd last chapter, which was from Evengeline's POV. That was a short conclusion of almost of the novel.

=> Maven, sometimes I liked him, sometimes I didn't. But overall, he is...fine. Little better than everyone else.
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I am quite disappointed right now. But equally curious about the last novel. Really hope for a good conclusion. :(

All will burn [cover says]
And All has burned
Don't let this happen to the next one. Please, Mrs. Aveyard!

March 1, 2017