Status Updates From Broken Throne (Red Queen, #...

First Evangeline, once meant to be my queen and my burden, then a princess of a hostile kingdom—now a soldier of an equal nation, with the woman she loves at her side

Cal is so dramatic what do you mean burden 😭😭

Cal is only 20 in Broken Throne, he’s still a kid to go through all the trauma he has been through is insane

“You might not think it, but I’m proud of you, Cal. What you’ve done, what you continue to do. You’re a young man, and you’ve accomplished so much with your time… You’re strong, my dear boy. Too strong. You deserve the happy moments when you find them. And all I want, beyond anything else, a crown or a country, is for you to live” it’s rare to see family time with Cal but nice he needs family time

She knows who I’m staying with, and why. Mare Barrow isn’t exactly her favorite person in the world.

I truly can’t say if I like Cal and Mare together or not they are so confusing

I am almost nineteen. I have nothing but time. To choose, to heal. To live.

Could agree anymore Mare. You have the time to slow down

EVANGALINES POV

I don’t even think I could blame Julian for it. Only one person still living carries that burden

It’s one death for another. Shades death for EVANGALINES father tho Mare didn’t kill Volo a family member was meant to die

I’m most interested in this so-called group, their organization, and their size. They seem to be well coordinated and able to move. Not to mention smart. Several have been captured but have given nothing under interrogation. It seems they operate on a need-to-know basis, very militaristic. No one knows the whole picture. Will see how they respond.

ALSO LOVE that Mr. Whistle from Red Queen is still alive

Red rebellion started before SG

They don’t know who killed the queen’s brother, just that it was a Red with the Allegiance. As far as we know, the Allegiance is being rounded up. Some whisper got a hold of one of them and cracked the poor man right open. All the safe houses and escape routes. Not much we can do for the Allegiance. They weren’t smart about this. Weren’t smart at all, and we’re going to suffer for it….
Red rebellion

QUEEN SONG

Coriane quietly despaired. Sara was my best friend. Sara was the only thing that belonged to me. But no longer. Just like Julian, Sara would drift away, until Coriane was left with only the dust of a forgotten home and a forgotten life.

This book covered Steel Scars and Queen Song refer to those for my opinion on them

I am particularly concerned by man-made climate change, an easy trap to fall into, especially for advancing societies.

Real world problems are making it into the fantasy dystopia books

Global warming has been a prominent topic in so many novels

According to the sources in Horn Mountain, the first of the so-called Calamities—the most destructive and longest lasting—was a catastrophic change in climate due to widespread pollution on a global scale. It worsened over decades, each year worse than the last. Drought rocked much of the world, including lands beyond the oceans bordering our continent, places I have not yet begun to fathom.

It feels like a lot of this book is “message decoded” and “redacted” and I am sick of listening to it repeated so many times in the audio book.