Review: The Crimson Crown
Author: Cinda Williams Chima
Rating: 5/5
Genre: High Fantasy
Recommend To: Everybody
** spoiler alert ** Now I’m going to be wandering around for weeks in a daze. I just can’t believe it’s over…oh gods. I don’t even know what to say. This series was literally my lifeline, if I had a terrible day in my head I’d think “Oh well. One day closer to the Crimson Crown.” And now? I don’t have anything to hang on to. Because MY FAVORITE BOOK SERIES EVER has just ended. And beautifully may I say. I really cried at the end. Because Han and Raisa made it, even through all the struggles. And yes I cried because I missed all the people that died and couldn’t be there, and I cried when Alger and Hana were finally reunited. Because that’s the kind of series this is. It makes you love all the characters so much (or hate Gavan) that you can’t bear to let them go. I’ll read this over and over for the rest of my life. Ohmygod. So I love this series like a cop loves donuts. And when the final book came out it had to be, screw you school, I stayed up until midnight and FINALLY bought it for my Kindle. And ohhhh was it worth the wait.
This book is literary genius. In fact the whole series is. It’s incredibly planned out and it makes me wonder why it’s not up there with Harry Potter and the Hunger Games.
The Plot: Han and Raisa are fighting to keep the Fells together as Gerard Montaigne bears down on them and the Bayars make a final ploy to get the throne. And of course we are wondering whether Raisa will marry Micah Bayar to appease the Bayars, Nightwalker to appease her family, or Han Alister for love. So all this political and romantic tension adds up to one thing, awesome sauce.
The Characters: I loved them so much. Yes all of them. Even the evil ones because I love to hate people. Raisa just grew so much and began to show how a true queen should carry herself. Han was just so determined and when he gave that speech to Raisa
“He looked into her eyes. ‘I promise you that if you agree to marry me, I will make it happen.’”
Ahh shivers.
And of the course the minor characters and revelations upon revelations about them. Dancer, Cat, Willo, Micah, Amon, Mellony, Elena Cennestre, Averill Lightfoot, Gavan, Fiona, gosh I could go on forever. I loved how that without these characters, the story couldn’t be what it is. Each of them represents a piece of a whole and I couldn’t have done without them.
And of course finally.
Alger Waterlow, the betrayed, confused, bitter soul that I couldn’t stop reading for. And when the true story was revealed, gods, I really thought I wouldn’t stop crying, why Lucas, why?
The End: I won’t give too many spoilers (although I already did), I’ll just say it was perfect.
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