The Kingless Crown by Sarah M. CraditMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
In the Kingdom, there are four Reaches and twenty years ago the current king cunningly devised a plan to marry the highborn sons of and daughters quickly to each other to stop them constantly being at war with each other. The side effect of that was to shatter the existing betrothals that were already in place. Cruel and some would say he was the evil son of the original king, Eoghan is now a boy-king having stolen his crown through murder is now demanding the eldest daughters of these unions - the accept this demand is unfathomable but also to refuse it is considered treason. The lords and ladies prepare their daughters for the horrors ahead as they have no stomach for a fight, but they soon discover that their daughters have taken matters into their own hands and have disappeared. However, they are not the only ones, as across the entire kingdom signs of rebellion are appearing everywhere. As the lords and ladies prepare to face the king, the entire kingdom is havering on the edge of chaos, and no one can tell what is going to happen next.
Wow. This is the start of an epic series that has plot lines that if they were drawn out would rival that of a diagram of a computer circuit board. We are taken through the history and the background of the current situation before we start to experience life from the viewpoint of the various players in the story. While I found the story slow and heavy going at the start, I do admit that you need to be prepared to read all of that to understand the story going forward too. So many things happened in this first book in the series that I am really intrigued as to what is going to happen next when we get to the next book. Well written and easy to read and understand, you will need to treat this as a marathon at first before you then start to motor through the book as you get more and more addicted to the story and what is going to happen next.
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