Ugh. I. Hate. Cliffhangers.Usually.
:) But definitely this time.
When I started The Crown of Embers it had been seven months since I'd read The Girl of Fire and Thorns. I'd forgotten most of it, and I didn't really know what to expect. The only things I remembered about it was that Elisa was very religious and that she had fallen in love with a desert nomad. Or something like that.
So when I started reading and I noticed the love intrest between Elisa and Hector I was confused. Very confused. But as I kept reading, I caught on quickly and started to LOVE their relationship. (And by the way, I love the last few pages, they are amazing.)
Since I started this while trying to read The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne for English class, I was surprised how fast I read it. Normally I focus on my school books and my free reading books take a back burner, but for once, I actually said, "Hell with it, I'm not going to read that!" Well, maybe not those exact words. But close.
:)
Anyway, here's the summary of the book:
In the sequel to the acclaimed The Girl of Fire and Thorns, a seventeen-year-old princess turned war queen faces sorcery, adventure, untold power, and romance as she fulfills her epic destiny.
Elisa is the hero of her country. She led her people to victory against a terrifying enemy, and now she is their queen. But she is only seventeen years old. Her rivals may have simply retreated, choosing stealth over battle. And no one within her court trusts her-except Hector, the commander of the royal guard, and her companions. As the country begins to crumble beneath her and her enemies emerge from the shadows, Elisa will take another journey. With a one-eyed warrior, a loyal friend, an enemy defector, and the man she is falling in love with, Elisa crosses the ocean in search of the perilous, uncharted, and mythical source of the Godstone's power. That is not all she finds. A breathtaking, romantic, and dangerous second volume in the Fire and Thorns trilogy.
