Title: Falling KingdomsSeries: Falling Kingdoms #1
Genre: Fantasy
Age group: Young adult
Pages: 412 (Hardcover)
Publisher: Razorbill
Publication date: December 11, 2012
Synopsis from Falling Kingdom's Goodreads page
In the three kingdoms of Mytica, magic has long been forgotten. And while hard-won peace has reigned for centuries, a deadly unrest now simmers below the surface.
As the rulers of each kingdom grapple for power, the lives of their subjects are brutally transformed... and four key players, royals and rebels alike, find their fates forever intertwined. Cleo, Jonas, Lucia, and Magnus are caught in a dizzying world of treacherous betrayals, shocking murders, secret alliances, and even unforeseen love.
The only outcome that's certain is that kingdoms will fall. Who will emerge triumphant when all they know has collapsed?
It's the eve of war.... Choose your side.
Princess: Raised in pampered luxury, Cleo must now embark on a rough and treacherous journey into enemy territory in search of magic long thought extinct.
Rebel: Jonas, enraged at injustice, lashes out against the forces of oppression that have kept his country cruelly impoverished. To his shock, he finds himself the leader of a people's revolution centuries in the making.
Sorceress: Lucia, adopted at birth into the royal family, discovers the truth about her past—and the supernatural legacy she is destined to wield.
Heir: Bred for aggression and trained to conquer, firstborn son Magnus begins to realize that the heart can be more lethal than the sword....
As the rulers of each kingdom grapple for power, the lives of their subjects are brutally transformed... and four key players, royals and rebels alike, find their fates forever intertwined. Cleo, Jonas, Lucia, and Magnus are caught in a dizzying world of treacherous betrayals, shocking murders, secret alliances, and even unforeseen love.
The only outcome that's certain is that kingdoms will fall. Who will emerge triumphant when all they know has collapsed?
It's the eve of war.... Choose your side.
Princess: Raised in pampered luxury, Cleo must now embark on a rough and treacherous journey into enemy territory in search of magic long thought extinct.
Rebel: Jonas, enraged at injustice, lashes out against the forces of oppression that have kept his country cruelly impoverished. To his shock, he finds himself the leader of a people's revolution centuries in the making.
Sorceress: Lucia, adopted at birth into the royal family, discovers the truth about her past—and the supernatural legacy she is destined to wield.
Heir: Bred for aggression and trained to conquer, firstborn son Magnus begins to realize that the heart can be more lethal than the sword....
THOUGHTS
Going into Falling Kingdoms, I had some SUPER high expectations. Everyone I know who has read them has absolutely loved the series so far, and all of the book bloggers and booktubers I follow and watch have also loved it.
I found the beginning of this book extremely hard to follow and to get into. Falling Kingdoms takes place in three different kingdoms on the same island, and is written from three different characters' perspectives from these three kingdoms. That alone was extremely hard to follow, because the author delves right into the book and you have to try and remember who is related to who, where they come from and how each character affects and is affected by each other character.
Once I began to follow the characters and I got well into the book, I found it a bit easier to enjoy the story, because I wasn't spending all my time trying to remember who was who and where they lived, which affected their entire lives. As this got easier and I actually started to read the book for the plot, I started to enjoy it. It took almost half the book for this to happen though, and although I want to say that this book was amazing and all the hype was correct...I found it a bit disappointing.
Falling Kingdoms wasn't as good as I had hoped it to be, yet I still gave it 4/5 stars, albeit a very hesitant 4/5 stars, because I know that this series will become much better. Falling Kingdoms was used entirely to set up the characters, to begin to create turmoil and problems in the characters' lives, and to create the world, history, and the politics of the kingdoms.
For what this book was used to do, and how it was used to set up four different characters lives in three different kingdoms, it was done extremely well. If the rest of the series is like the ending of Falling Kingdoms, I know that I will have nothing but good things to say about it and nothing but good reviews.
Rating - ★★★★☆
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