King's Cage
Victoria Aveyard, 2017
Fantasy Young adultScience fictionRomance
A prisoner, a king bound by his crown, and the poison of loving someone who was never real: the third Red Queen novel.
Feels like dread, longing and defiance. About power and love.
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What it means when the eyes you fear are a mother's eyes.
And his eyes are worst of all. Her eyes, Elara’s eyes. Once I thought them cold, made of living ice. Now I know better. The hottest fires burn blue, and his eyes are no exception. Victoria Aveyard.King's Cage is the third of four Red Queen novels, published in 2017; the series began with Red Queen in 2015.
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- What is King's Cage like?
- Feels like dread, longing and defiance. About power and love.
- What should I read after King's Cage?
- If you liked King's Cage, try Lightlark (Alex Aster), Golden Son (Pierce Brown) and The Wicked King (Holly Black).
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I could open a black hole that would swallow the beach. I could turn the sea dark as ink and kill everything inside of it. I could demolish the castle, brick by brick, from where we stand. I could take you back to Nightshade lands with me right now.” His voice was deep as dreams, dark as nightmares. “I could do all of those things.” His lips pressed against the top of her ear, for just a moment. “And I might—if I didn’t think you would hate me for it.
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Power dressed as a joke, and everyone in the room knows it.
The three of you have one solution to every problem. Murder. No key fits every lock.” Cardan gives us all a stern look, holding up a long-fingered hand with my stolen ruby ring still on one finger. “Someone tries to betray the High King, murder. Someone gives you a harsh look, murder. Someone disrespects you, murder. Someone ruins your laundry, murder.
The Wicked King · Holly Black
A sentence can outlast the sword that was meant to silence it.
Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures. No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh.
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