Sunday, August 10, 2025

Romantasy

 The Crown of Gilded Bones  by Jennifer L. Armentrout 

A lot happened in this book, but as soon as I finished reading it I forgot every last bit of it. I spent more time being irritated with it than anything. And it wasn't that I was irritated, it was that what I wanted to happen wasn't. Poppy is the Queen of the wolven and all of Atlantis but some people are having an easier time accepting that than others. Alistar plotted a coup and kidnapped her, but Cas found her and rescued her. Her powers are growing. She can telepathically communicate with the wolven. Cas asendes her, but she doesn't turn into a vampyr. Nope, she's a diety. Her brother shows up as an emissary and while he is a vampyr he still has his humanity and he tells her to go to Nyktos to get his guards. So she and Cas take a small contingent of guards into the land of the gods to wake the King of the Gods to ask for his guards, and he only talks to Poppy and tells her she has always had the power, which is super vague and unhelpful. Then they meet with Cas' parents and she says she is taking her crown and they have the most basic ceremony ever because they don't have time for the pomp of it all. Then they meet with the vampyr queen only to find out that she's not actually a vampyr. Nope; she's Isabeth, Malec's queen. Malik is there, not in chains. They always knew who Poppy was and Malik was going to be her present upon her Asencion. Then evil queen kills Poppy's brother and tells her that Atlantis must unite with her. They leave, but on the way in they saw a cave cat in a cage and he turned back into a man. Poppy goes back to the city of the gods and talks to the dragon and finds out that it wasn't Malec like they assumed, and that she's not Malec's daughter but his niece. Malec has a twin and that twin is missing. Also, Poppy is a god and she can control the dragons; Nyktos' guards. So, now she's ready for war which is good because the Isabeth has Cas as a prisoner. And the book ends with her killing King Jalar, Isabeth's current husband, and sending her his head. I'm pretty sure other stuff happened, but I can't remember it because this book was big and A LOT was going on.  

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