The Winner's Curse (The Winner's Trilogy)
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One day, she is startled to find a kindred spirit in Arin, a young slave up for auction. Following her instinct, Kestrel buys him - and for a sensational price that sets the society gossips talking. It's not long before she has to hide her growing love for Arin. But he, too, has a secret and Kestrel quickly learns that the price she paid for him is much higher than she ever could have imagined.
The first novel in a stunning new trilogy, The Winner's Curse is a story of romance, rumours and rebellion, where dirty secrets and careless alliances can be deadly - and everything is at stake.
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3.5 Stars Okay, where do I begin. I hated the main characters friends because they only pushed her their own way and for their own convinience. I don't think Kestrel is all that intelligent and strong minded since she made quite a few stupid decisions through the story (also very thoughfull decisions but we are talking about the things that annoyed me first). Also the romance: Kestrel was loving one paragraph and hating her love interest the next one. That's not how I picture a hate-to-love relationship because there was no real progress to the loving part only a constant change in heart which annoyed me quite a lot. Because of that I found Kestrel quite indecisive and egoistic at times. Plotwise the book was neatly done. I liked the overall story, setting the romance aside. I hope that my problems with this first book will go away or lessen in the next books.
People in brightly lit places cannot see into the dark. This year, I just don't have any luck with books I'm reading for the first time. (So far. But the year is still young, there's still hope!) I wanted to love this book, I really did. I only ended up liking it... I couldn't connect with the characters, Kestrel and Arin were both too distanced from me to really take an interest and so were the side characters (why do I need to care about Jess, she just so... meh). The budding feelings were also not reaching me... I feel like this series could be much more and I'm definetly reading on but I'm in no rush to do so.
Publicado originalmente: El Extraño Gato del Cuento Si saben un poquito de historia centro y sudamericana, nosotros fuimos "civilizados" por extranjeros. ¿Por qué mencionó esto? Porque mientras leía se me hizo difícil entregarle mi fidelidad completa a solo un personaje en la historia. Si hubiera sido una historia simple, sin duda mi lealtad y adoración hubiera ido con Kestrel, estratega, amante de la música, la manera en cómo se maneja alrededor de todos, es un personaje que al menos yo no me encontré antes, quizá un poco Scarlet, aunque son personajes muy diferentes, me gustan muchos los detalles que la escritora incluye en ella, como lo de las manos. Y luego tenemos a Arin, wow. No solo porque sea el chico de la historia, es un personaje tan rico, tan completo, no puedo describirles exactamente cómo es que este personaje es tan especial, más allá de la parte romántica. Y hablando del romance, es algo completamente de segundo plano, lo que lo hace mil veces mejor porque sufres con la tensión de si realmente habrá algo o no con estos dos. Esa vuelta del final no la entendí muy bien, nada más He is so: "“My soul is yours," "The god of lies loves you" Me: Twitter || Blog || Pinterest || Tumblr || Instagram
Description
One day, she is startled to find a kindred spirit in Arin, a young slave up for auction. Following her instinct, Kestrel buys him - and for a sensational price that sets the society gossips talking. It's not long before she has to hide her growing love for Arin. But he, too, has a secret and Kestrel quickly learns that the price she paid for him is much higher than she ever could have imagined.
The first novel in a stunning new trilogy, The Winner's Curse is a story of romance, rumours and rebellion, where dirty secrets and careless alliances can be deadly - and everything is at stake.
Book Information
Posts
3.5 Stars Okay, where do I begin. I hated the main characters friends because they only pushed her their own way and for their own convinience. I don't think Kestrel is all that intelligent and strong minded since she made quite a few stupid decisions through the story (also very thoughfull decisions but we are talking about the things that annoyed me first). Also the romance: Kestrel was loving one paragraph and hating her love interest the next one. That's not how I picture a hate-to-love relationship because there was no real progress to the loving part only a constant change in heart which annoyed me quite a lot. Because of that I found Kestrel quite indecisive and egoistic at times. Plotwise the book was neatly done. I liked the overall story, setting the romance aside. I hope that my problems with this first book will go away or lessen in the next books.
People in brightly lit places cannot see into the dark. This year, I just don't have any luck with books I'm reading for the first time. (So far. But the year is still young, there's still hope!) I wanted to love this book, I really did. I only ended up liking it... I couldn't connect with the characters, Kestrel and Arin were both too distanced from me to really take an interest and so were the side characters (why do I need to care about Jess, she just so... meh). The budding feelings were also not reaching me... I feel like this series could be much more and I'm definetly reading on but I'm in no rush to do so.
Publicado originalmente: El Extraño Gato del Cuento Si saben un poquito de historia centro y sudamericana, nosotros fuimos "civilizados" por extranjeros. ¿Por qué mencionó esto? Porque mientras leía se me hizo difícil entregarle mi fidelidad completa a solo un personaje en la historia. Si hubiera sido una historia simple, sin duda mi lealtad y adoración hubiera ido con Kestrel, estratega, amante de la música, la manera en cómo se maneja alrededor de todos, es un personaje que al menos yo no me encontré antes, quizá un poco Scarlet, aunque son personajes muy diferentes, me gustan muchos los detalles que la escritora incluye en ella, como lo de las manos. Y luego tenemos a Arin, wow. No solo porque sea el chico de la historia, es un personaje tan rico, tan completo, no puedo describirles exactamente cómo es que este personaje es tan especial, más allá de la parte romántica. Y hablando del romance, es algo completamente de segundo plano, lo que lo hace mil veces mejor porque sufres con la tensión de si realmente habrá algo o no con estos dos. Esa vuelta del final no la entendí muy bien, nada más He is so: "“My soul is yours," "The god of lies loves you" Me: Twitter || Blog || Pinterest || Tumblr || Instagram