Kingsbane (The Empirium Trilogy, 2)

How will I ever survive waiting for book three? This second book killed me beyond words. I do not know how I will write this review of mine. I'm not sure I have any feelings left, haha. Kingsbane is all kinds of long, and it took me so many days to read it, but I did not mind one bit. Because I loved every word of this lovely book.I have struggled all day long with writing this review. As I did not know how to begin. I still do not. As this book killed me. In good ways, and bad ways. Gave me so much heartbreak. Completely ruined me. Yet it healed me too. Okay, not too much healing, ha. I hope there will be more of that in book three. Just. Oh my gosh.I have read Kingsbane. Which is a book I have waited so so long for. A book I have been dying to read for ages and ages. A book I have been so jealous to see everyone reading but me. And now I have gotten to read it too. Sigh. And I am not sure my heart will ever recover from it, haha. I'm not sure I want it to? Hmm. Claire is the most amazing author and person. I love her beyond words. I have been a fan of her since her first book came out, and have read and loved everything by her since then. She is the kindest person. But my gosh, how I'm angry with her right now, haha. Because this sequel to Furyborn ruined me in all the ways. Everything going wrong. There was so much heartbreak and grief. And so much romance. All of it so rude. But so very perfect too.There is so much that I want to share about this book. But I will not. I will not be sharing spoilers, at least nothing big. Because, gosh, there are so many things I could spoil about this book. But they are all things you must read for yourself. Kingsbane was full of surprises and twists. Most of them bad, haha. But a few happy surprises too, that I loved so very much. As always, the writing was perfection. I had no trouble at all with connecting to the story or the characters. I might have connected a bit too much to everything, ha.As with the first book, this was told from the point of view of Rielle and Eliana. With a very few other point of views later on in the book. Nothing big, but needed, at least for me. I loved getting inside of their heads too. This book is filled with amazing characters and they were all awesome to read about. Although I love my Rielle and Audric and Eliana the most. Remy is still beyond precious. I'm still the most worried for him. How rude. He was truly adorable in this second book, though, and I simply love him so. Best little brother.Rielle was my most precious one in book one. In this one she really tested my love for her. I still love her to pieces. But I am so angry with this girl as well. She was so different in this book. The same person, yet different. She is always angry. And cruel too. And way too rash about everything. Yet she is the sweetest toward Audric. And I loved that the very most. But yes. Rielle was an angry creature in this book. And I'm so mad at her. I'm so worried for her, because of how I fear there was a reason for how she behaved. Oh.This whole book worried me. So many bad things happened. And much worse is yet to come. I'm so not sure how I will survive reading it all, considering I'm still dead after having read this one. Rielle is making me so worried. I love this precious girl so much and I want her to have a happy ending. But I do not know how this will happen. She has done so many bad things now. Then there is Corien. He is there, still awful, but not in this book as much as I had feared. Book three will be worse. My poor heart might not survive it.Then there was my precious Audric. He is in this book a whole lot. He is still the light of everything. He is always there for Rielle, even when she is doing all the stupid things. He is there and loving her and taking care of her. Their romance is all kinds of intense. And also so lovely. And I ship them beyond words. And I worry for them even more. Audric is my love. My life. And he deserves the whole world. Hmph. There are scenes with the gorgeous godsbeast too, and I loved her to pieces. So truly adorable and cute and fierce.There was so much of Ludivine too, and she is so complicated, and Rielle treats her so badly in this book, and it just ruined my heart. Okay, I was kind of angry with Ludivine at times, but I still loved her a lot. And she deserved better from Rielle. Hmph. And then there was Simon. I still do not fully love this man, haha. There are too many things we still do not know about him. But he's there, a lot. There is romance. Maybe. And it was written really well. But oh, I want my Eliana with someone else, still, haha. Still. They are cute.And Simon was written well. And I did like reading about him, truly. I just. I want him as a friend, haha. Yet he was not all bad. But too mysterious. Anyway. Eliana was all kinds of fierce in this second book as well. I loved her inner struggle and such. I loved how she tried her best to save Navi. I loved her friendship with Zahra. I very much loved how she was working with her powers, struggling to understand it all. Trying her best to cope with being the Sun Queen. It was awesome. And I simply adored Eliana. So fierce and cute.So much is going on in this book. In the past and in the future. There are wars. There are deaths. A whole bunch of stunningly written smut. Amazing friendships and romances. I will not share much about the plot only that it was stunning and so much happened. And I am so curious and so worried and I loved it all so. This whole book ruined me. Beyond words. And I could not help but love it so much. I need the third book more than anything. I fear it will ruin me forever. I cannot wait for it, haha. It will be the best one, I'm sure.Kingsbane was everything I had wanted it to be and more. Full of danger and adventures and romance. Such stunning relationships and so many plot secrets. It ruined my heart at all moments. And I could not help but love this even more because of that. This second book have made me even more worried about how everything will end. I am so unsure about my happy ending. I don't know how it will happen. I want it to. I need it to. But I am also beyond positive that the third book will hurt me the most of them all first. Ah.Huge thank you to the publisher, Sourcebooks Fire, for letting me read this most gorgeous book early via Netgalley. I'm so thrilled that I had the chance to read this one early. And oh gosh, I'm getting a print ARC in the mail too, for my collection, and I could not be happier. Sigh. I cannot wait to own all of the finished copies when Kingsbane come out in May. If you have read Furyborn, you truly must read Kingsbane too. It was such a perfect second book. Full of pain. Full of heartbreak. Treasured every moment of reading it.---This review was first posted on my blog, Carina's Books. Read at the end of February.

Since I suck at life and have been extraordinarily busy the last few months I have been severely slacking on writing reviews for my recent reads 😭 I read the Kingsbane ARC over a month and am just now sitting down to write my review. I ended up listening to the audiobook this last week to refresh my mind about what all happened because I have the memory of a goldfish and I wanted this review to be truly reflective of how I felt about it!I do want to point out up front that Kingsbane has a more Adult feel to it than Furyborn did, especially since these are classified as Young Adult. There is a LOT more mature content in this book. I’m not saying this in the sense that I think teens can’t handle it but more of a cautionary statement that if you are not comfortable with some heavy topics and uh, certain scenes that don’t fade to black and are very descriptive, then I would advise against this story.With that being said though, I did love Kingsbane! You all should know by now I have an undying love for Furyborn and this sequel Did. Not. Disappoint. This story is complex, dense, entirely enticing, and well thought-out. Claire Legrand is weaving a tale that is so rich in world building and character arcs I can’t help but be swept away by it!I am really big on world building in a fantasy novel and Kingsbane more than delivered. I felt as though we got to see another side of Celdaria throughout this story and I was beyond pleased with it. This world is rich and beautiful while also cruel and cunning. There are magical beasts like you wouldn’t believe and creatures that roam this world that will leave you haunted and happy that you don’t live there as well.I have read a lot of reviews that give a lower rating because this story is told from multiple POV and spans across a millennia, so a lot of people found it too confusing switching back and forth between POV and the different timelines. This is honestly one of the reasons that I love this story though! I don’t mind the multiple POV, especially in Kingsbane because we get a few extra character’s sporadically than we did in Furyborn. I don’t find it confusing either because the stories end up being weaved together and it is done so very beautifully. I loved watching these two stories come together, and I can’t wait for the third and final book to see what happens!I know these books aren’t for a lot of people but I want to urge you to give them a try, I truly love these books. While no book is without it’s faults I think Furyborn and Kingsbane are among my favorite fantasy novels. They are brutal and heart breaking and everything in between. If you don’t have time to sit down and crack open a 600+ page book then get the audiobook! It’s on Audible, or at your local library! I listened to both audiobooks and read both physical books. If your library doesn’t have it, request the get it! I want Claire to have as much support as possible for these marvelous books 💖

I haven't finished it yet but as far it is really good i got very engaged with the furyborn one and I'm really loving this.

El libro está en perfecto estado, muy bien empaquetado

𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘦 (𝘌𝘮𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘛𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺)•“𝘞𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐... 𝘸𝘦’𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦.”•»I can’t say much because I feel if I do it (even if I try to give a synopsis I feel like I will be giving something), it will spoil all the experience of reading this magical book with angry girls fighting for their own freedom. But I will point out that this one DESTROYED ME. It tore out my heart and stabbed it. It made me stressed and hopeful and a crying mess. I had to even make a playlist for some of my fave characters (relationship) because I needed a place to go where I could feel things again, even if hurt. The author knew exactly what to do to make me scream, with her dialogues, story and plot.Just READ this book for the love of god! Read this trilogy!!Rating: 5★ + LOVE ALL THE LOVE

je ne m'en remettrai pas. ce livre était haletant, et je crois que la fin m'a tuée

Absolutely loved this book. Did not think I would be able to get in to it. By the time difference. But wow. Gutted have to wait until October for the final book. The suspense at the end of the book is really unfair lol. I would of waited until October to read them. I hate waiting for the next books and I try to makeSure all books are released first but had to tempt my self.