I liked this book in and of itself. Characters still not always doing what I approve of, which means that this book moves to upper teens even though it's an easy enough read. The story line is very dark but interesting. Kinda horrifying. Let's just say, for a book about a 17 year old princess this book fit surprisingly well with my accidental series of reading books centered around death. :/
In addition, I'm not even sure what I feel about Cashore any more. She reminds me of Inkheart; by that I mean, the author character in Inkheart complains that the villains he wrote were the best villains he could come up with so he couldn't kill them... or something along those lines. Anyway, Cashore somehow managed to actually kill that ultimate evil villain in her first book and then used him as a villain for her next two books one of which is a sequel. And no, he was not brought back from the dead. He just apparently was so evil that his evil didn't die with him. I would have no problem with that except he had that little cameo of randomness in Fire.
I am happy that Cashore got enough over her obsession with pregnancy that her main character did not spend have some big emotional scene relating to her desire for or against it. Just one line about some minor characters. She replaced with a plot line about rape and torture and some adultery. Yay.
Rating? Good.
Read again? Have to. My mom bought it for me for Christmas after I read it the first time.
You read? Sure. Read the other two first.
Age? Upper teen.
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