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I am posting one book per day from my to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new - don‘t judge me I have a lot of books.
Join the fun if you want. This is day 344.
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I've noticed a trend with Kiersten White's books... I read the first book in a new series or trilogy and absolutely LOVE it. I anxiously await the publication of book 2, start reading as soon as I get my hands on a copy, and then completely lose interest in the story. I've tried 3 times to get invested in this story and it just feels like a chore to get through it, so I'm giving up.

Wow! This girl makes a lot of decisions based off of assumptions... I think I just expected more growth from her in this second book.

"Ah, yes. That story. That is what happens when men tell your stories. Would you like to hear the real story?"

Guinevere shook her head. "The real stories are always worse."

"Yes. They are. I am going to tell you anyway." Morgan le Fay leaned close, her voice low and melodic as she rewrote everything Guinevere knew.

"That was the other lie of stories. Even when the stories told were true, they never talked about what happened after the quest. About all the wounds--visible and otherwise--that lingered long after the neat close of the tale. They had rescued the damsel. The end. But the was still so much pain there, and perhaps there always would be."

I couldn't wait any longer to get started on the sequel to The Guinevere Deception, which I really loved, so I got a copy not long after I finished the first book, and now I've finished this book.

Just. Wow. I love Kiersten White's writing. She really knows how to draw out the power and strength of her female characters. Watching Guinevere grow more into her own here was the highlight of this book. (Continued in Comments):

Back to my #crossstitch project after being too tired to focus on it all week. Looking forward to a couple hours of #audiostitching
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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

I have been really anticipating this sequel and finally just got around to it. I liked Guinevere and her character. I do like the problem with the sister. I did feel like there were times the book was boring and confusing.
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Solid second book. I don't remember much about the 1st book though. I really enjoyed the characters relationships in this one. ⭐⭐⭐ Also, I love the cover.

Three bingos so far this month. WOOHOO!!! #bookspin @TheAromeOfBooks

The drama with Guinevere and Arthur amps up ten levels. Guinevere is finding her footing as a queen with Arthur gentle and steadfastly supporting her. Her struggles of doing the right thing and dealing with the consequences is a huge component to this leg of Guinevere's duty. Loving this story progression.

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Making some movement on this great audiobook and I‘m hoping I‘ll be out of my slump now. Feeling much better after resting and recharging today. My husband was off too and we watched a Harry Potter movie and napped and also took the dogs to a friends to run them out a bit.

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Defiantly a slower and more mellow read, works well as the middle book. It wasn‘t of intense adventure, but of deceit and mystery. Not as frantic as the first, yet full of heart and determine who you really are when you get to make your own choses. Not the one others demanded and made for you - no matter how they pretend they didn‘t. I look forward to the finale of Queen and King. Of Guinevere and Arthur

I love Lancelot as the Queens knight
She is a knight of the round table, but is the queens knight specifically. Let alone that she is an incredible knight in her own right. It would be nice to see the other knights of the round table respect her more, as there still not sure if they like a female knight. Even if she is removed from the politics of it all as the queens knight

First real snow/ice fall of winter 2020 knocked out the power. So this afternoon I‘ll be exclusively reading this second of the trilogy
I am so excited to get back to the mystery of Camelot. I‘ve never been really into King Arthur, but this story is so well written. So far here, there seems to be a good deal of recovering from the last more then anything else. The cover and flip write up has me worried the castle is going to burn in a storm

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mostly filler, but it was very pleasant, atmospheric filler. I think this series is going to be better as a whole when the third comes out than individual entries as the books aren‘t too long — I‘m ready for the next one to actually progress the plot!

Starting on this one! I‘ve never read a book by Kiersten White that I didn‘t like.

How... am I supposed to wait a whole year to find out what happens next... ahhhh it was so good!

I. Love. This. Series. It has everything I want to find in an Arthurian story. I hope the characters get a happy ending in the next book, because otherwise it will break my heart. Also, I‘m swooning over Lancelot taking care of Guinevere. I want my own Lancelot! I love how the character has been reimagined, while still keeping the core qualities that make Lancelot “Lancelot”.

Happy Publishing Day to these lovely beauties! 😍 They both arrived today and I'm so excited! 💕📚 #bookmail

I feel like I haven‘t seen any press for this! I just ordered it yesterday because I was thinking, “huh, I wonder when the sequel will be released?”. I loved the first book. Am looking forward to diving into this one when it gets here tomorrow!

Continuing with the fantasy retelling of King Arthur, I enjoyed this even better than the first. There were some questions I had after the first book that were answered in this follow-up. I really love that Lancelot is a woman in White's series, with the same unbeatable reputation we're familiar with from the legends. I've been immersed in a lot of Camelot-esque stories this year & this book adds to the fun. I'm anxiously awaiting the 3rd book.

I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join the fun if you want.
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This was good but not great. A lot of what I liked about the first one (mostly the female friendships) was absent. The middle of this one dragged, and a lot of the characters became one-dimensional. It was OK.

Got auto-approved for the ARC, so let‘s go sequel! Hoping for more awesome female friendships in this one. 👯‍♀️