Bitterblue (Graceling Realm #3): Ebook review

4.5/5 Stars

Bitterblue
(Book #3 Graceling Realm)
By Kristin Cashore
May 1st, 2012, Dial books
Genre: Fantasy

Synopsis:

Eight years ago Bitterblue was a princess, until Katsa was able to kill her psychopath father Leck. Now she is a young queen desperately trying to repair the damage caused by Leck’s 35 year reign. In order to understand the true devastation of what happened during his rule and heal her kingdom Bitterblue delves into the past, but even after his death there are forces at work trying to prevent her from learning the truth.

Queen Bitterblue begins to the leave the castle under the cover of night and hood in order to see how her city is fairing. In a story room she meets two young men – one a graceling – that will help her unearth the past.

What I thought:

Wow, this book was long. I felt like it took me forever to read it, but not in a slow sense but rather it had so much content sense! Oh my goodness there was a lot going on with Bitterblue, Katsa, Po, and the truth seekers!

I was happy to see Katsa, Po, and many other familiar faces in this book. I was even more interested to see how the Dells would weave its way into the book (it does but you have to wait until you’re 75% done the book until it really seems like it’s part of the story).

I also really enjoyed character development on Giddon’s end, you get to see a lot nicer side of him. I wasn’t the biggest fan of Saf, but maybe that’s what the author intended. I found that there was A LOT happening in this book, and a lot of stuff that had to get done. It's over 100 pages more than Fire but it seems there's a lot more that happens.

If you liked the first two books then I would definitely say keep on going because there is much left to the story. I liked this book a lot, but I must warn you everyone cries at least once, and while everything comes together at the end if still leaves a lot open. It just sort of ends you without all the closure you might like.

PS. If the Leinids are named after colours (Bitterblue, Sapphire, Ashen, Greenling (Po))... What the hell colour is Ror??