The King of Limeros’s son, Magnus, must plan each footstep with shrewd, sharp guile if he is to earn his powerful father’s trust, while his sister, Lucia, discovers a terrifying secret about her heritage that will change everything. Once a privileged royal, Cleo must now summon the strength to survive in this new world and fight for her rightful place as Queen. Overall, while there were a few plot issues I had with the story, I did still enjoy the overall arc of the story and have confidence that Rhodes will find her stride with the next book in the series.If You Like Falling Kingdoms Books, You’ll Love…įalling Kingdoms Synopsis: In Falling Kingdoms by Morgan Rhodes (book 1 of the Falling Kingdoms series), Princess Cleo of Mytica confronts violence for the first time in her life when a shocking murder sets her kingdom on a path to collapse. A number of characters die throughout the book, some you got to know more intimately, others you barely knew, but regardless of how well you knew them, you became desensitized to their deaths - largely, I think, because of the distance I felt while reading. I'm not sure if it was a direct result of the perspective, but I did find that I wasn't as engaged in the story as I wanted to be and I could really feel that distance at times.
Yes, it keeps them separated, but I find it also distances the reader from the story and the characters. Writing style-wise, I'm not generally the biggest fan of third-person perspective, especially when we're dealing with multiple perspectives. Luckily, there was a list at the beginning of the book with details on who came from where, which helped a bit.
Firstly, it took me a hot minute to figure out who was who in the book, not necessarily voice-wise (they were fairly distinct and in third person, so their names were always used) but in terms of who was a part of which part of the world.
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