Kingdom of Ashes (A Wicked Thing #2) by Rhiannon Thomas

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Kingdom of Ashes (A Wicked Thing, #2)

 368 pages

Published February 23rd 2016 by HarperTeen
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 Blurb:

 Asleep for a hundred years, awoken by a kiss. Aurora’s life was supposed to be a fairytale.
But since discovering that loyalty to the crown and loyalty to her country are two very different things, Aurora knows she can only dream of happily ever after. Once the enchanted princess, savior of her people, she is now branded a traitor.

Aurora is determined to free her home from the king’s tyrannical rule, even if it means traveling across the sea to the kingdom of the handsome and devious Prince Finnegan—someone who seems to know far more about her magic than he should. However, Finnegan’s kingdom has perils of its own, and any help he gives Aurora will come at a price.
As Aurora and Finnegan work together to harness her power—something so fiery and dangerous that is as likely to destroy those close to Aurora as it is to save them—she begins to unravel the mysteries surrounding the curse that was placed on her over a century before…and uncover the truth about the destiny she was always meant to fulfill.
Brimming with captivating fantasy and life-threatening danger, the sequel to A Wicked Thing takes Sleeping Beauty on an adventure unlike any she’s ever had before.

Review:

The fact that I had to wait so long to read this book makes it obvious that I wasn't really excited about it. Moreover, by the time I actually started reading this book I had forgotten everything that happened in the prequel and maybe that's the main reason I didn't enjoy this book so much. Aurora just seemed stupid to me in this book and where I liked Prince Finnegan in the previous book (I think I did), I don't know how but the feeling has disappeared. The whole dragon thing was confusing me and I'm kinda glad that this is a duology and there won't be another book.
In A Wicked thing, I was excited by the idea of Aurora discovering what she wanted and her trying to figure things out on her own, fighting the politics and the evil king in the process but in Kingdom of Ashes, she's selfish and stupid.
She knows that being burnt by the dragon means death. But still she takes Finnegan with her on a hunch that she can control the dragons. Now isn't that idiotic? And then with the whole Celestine drama. To be honest, she is the only character I actually liked in the book and she's the villian.

Rating:  3 out of 4 stars




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