Week 5 Review: A Traitor Sister

From Goodreads:

Hearts will mend and break while a moving castle heads towards an abyss.

Free of her master's manipulations, Astra's ready to embrace her powers and learn about her origin—until her fae prince is caught in a dark magic prison. Now she'll need to unearth long lost secrets and use magic more powerful than she's ever dreamed. With no guidance and no training, she'll need to act fast if she hopes to save her husband and her friends.

Meanwhile, the Crystal Castle is rushing to a pit of fire. When it gets there, it will open a chasm and destroy the kingdom.

The court's false king will do anything to acquire magic and steer his castle away from this doom. His last hope is to seduce Astra, whose unique heritage could provide the solution he seeks. Problem is, there's an impostor in her place—while enemies close in.

And time's running out for everyone.

A Traitor Sister is the thrilling, romantic, and sexy sequel to A Cursed Son. It's book 2 in the series Remnants of the Fallen Kingdom, a romantasy series perfect for fans of enemies to lovers, fae courts, epic action, hilarious banter, and heroines embracing their power.

My Review:
I had such a fantastic time reading this book! I really enjoyed the first book, and I was excited to see where this sequel would go! Spending more time with these characters, getting to know this world better, it was all really great!

That ending of the previous book was such a cliffhanger! That she is back in the custody of her master, and he's being held captive by his brother who doesn't have much care for his well-being, yeah, that was something that I wanted them both out of as soon as possible! 

It has been a minute, but I'm fairly certain that the first book was mainly, if not almost entirely, in Astra's perspective. In this book, however, there are a whole bunch more perspectives that widen our view of what is going on. It was pretty interesting to see what the other characters had going on, and their opinions of the other characters, because some of them have thoughts about Marlak. But it also meant that not a lot of this story was time spend with Astra. Which was fine, because she deserved some down-ish time, because she did still have a story. And with that ending, yeah, she's going to have a lot to deal with in the next book! 

The fact that we get Marlek's brother, Renel's perspective, really showed just how much of what we understood of this world was wrong. That Renel remembers their stepfather, and sister in a different light? Plus getting Marlek's side of what happened? Yeah, it's more complicated than it seems. There were a lot of complicated emotions, and feelings where reason says there shouldn't be, and I loved it! I'm so excited to see how it's going to play out in book 3! 

Loved reading this book and I can't wait to continue on with this series! 

Author: Day Leitao
Series: Remnants of the Fallen Kingdom #2
Read: January 29th, 2025
Source: NetGalley 
Reason Why: Loved the first book, and it's a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2025 Book and a WoW Book! 
Publisher: Sparkly Wave
Published: February 12th 2025

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars