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Two Dark Reigns by Kendare Blake

Like most avid readers, I'm a sucker for series. The opportunity to spend more time in a world we love, with the characters we love, and the chance to delay the inevitable goodbye we all must bid stories in the end brings out the literary glutton in the best of us. That's why reading Two Dark Reigns , the third book of the Three Dark Crowns series was a given. I was hopefully trepidatious...or was it trepidatiously hopeful...that this entry would live up to its predecessors. *Spoiler Alert* It does. By the way, if you're reading this and you haven't yet read Three Dark Crowns and One Dark Throne , you deserve to get spoiled. Rather than picking up where we left, instead Kendare Blake sends us back 400 years to when the Blue Queen was born to a War Queen who was as badass as her moniker suggests: Philomene...smiled.'It is like a War Queen to bleed so much. But I still think I will die of this.' We learn that a Blue Queen is fourth born followi