The Betrayed by Kiera Cass
My Rating: ★★★★
I received a copy from HarperCollins Children's Books through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Hollis Eastoffe was married for one glorious hour before her wedding ended in bloodshed. Now widowed, she flees Coroa with her in-laws in hopes of finding a shred of safety. While majority of her in-laws are caring and loving, Hollis quickly finds that not everyone is welcoming her to Isolte with open arms. Despite how welcoming some people are, she quickly finds her place and helps usurp the king responsible for the death of her husband and parents.
While I preferred the secondary characters over Hollis in the first installment, I needed to know what happened after her wedding ended in a bloody disaster. Fortunately for me, I loved Hollis this time around. I think she grew a lot very early on due to unfortunate circumstances, which ultimately made her a great character to follow. It was interesting to follow her in a new setting, see the Isolte we heard so much about in the first book, and meet the family Silas always spoke highly of.
I also found the romance to make a lot of sense this time around. Without spoiling the romance and what two characters it is between, I will say that they had so much chemistry that I wondered if they’d make their feelings known or if it’d be left as unrequited love. It was a huge improvement from the romances in the first book.
There were also couple of really good twists that left me reeling in addition to an event that was so crazy that I had to put the book down and process it despite wanting to continue reading. I do think that it suddenly wrapped up very quickly and probably could’ve been a trilogy rather than a duology, but I’ll live. Overall, I loved the story and didn’t want it to end.
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