Crown's Game by Evelyn Skye

TL;DR magic in imperial Russia

TBR #1303, added Jul 18, 2015

finished 3/2/17

This was a nice read. I'm finding that I like stories set in Russia (roughly) in this time period, like The Gathering Storm by Robin Bridges and Queen of Someday by Sherry Ficklin. The magic in Crown's Game and The Gathering Storm were definitely a bonus for me.

I liked that a lot of the story wasn't clear-cut and that there were a lot of entanglements between the characters. It definitely kept me coming back to read.

I was actually kind of disappointed by the ending, but that was mainly before I realized it wasn't a standalone book like I thought. I'm still a little apprehensive about the direction the series is going to take in light of The Crown's Game's ending, but I'm still gonna read it if my library gets a copy of it.

I'm back!

Hey guys! I'm back from my unexpected and unplanned blogging break. Life kinda came at me fast and I decided to focus on school and my sanity instead of pushing myself to write blog posts when I didn't really have any new content.

That said, I'm abandoning my "every three days" schedule for right now, likely until mid-May and I'm done with the spring semester. I'm just going to post whenever I can, without stressing about having to get posts up on certain days. Taking a break definitely helped me re-focus on things so I might sit down soon and re-evaluate how I'm approaching running this blog.

I've managed to read a couple books in my month-long break so I'm gonna do my best to get those reviews up. The next few are gonna be pretty short but I'm gonna try to work my way back up to more in-depth reviews. Thanks for sticking around ♥