Week 50 Review: For the Throne

From Goodreads:

The First Daughter is for the Throne

The Second Daughter is for the Wolf...

Red and the Wolf have finally contained the threat of the Old Kings but at a steep cost. Red's beloved sister Neve, the First Daughter is lost in the Shadowlands, an inverted kingdom where the vicious gods of legend have been trapped for centuries and the Old Kings have slowly been gaining control. But Neve has an ally--though it's one she'd rather never have to speak to again--the rogue king Solmir.

Solmir wants to bring an end to the Shadowlands and he believes helping Neve may be the key to its destruction. But to do that, they will both have to journey across a dangerous landscape in order to find a mysterious Heart Tree, and finally to claim the gods' dark, twisted powers for themselves. 

My Review:
This was such a great read! I loved being in this world again with these characters, watching events unfold! It was so captivating, I couldn't put it down! Now that we were familiar with the world and these characters, of course we would go somewhere new with new rules!

This book was more Neve's story like the first book was Red's. We did get Red's perspective more often then we got Neve's last book. We also got Raffe's perspective, which was interesting, given the feelings that were mentioned previously. There were so many fantastic elements to this story!

Secrets, mysteries, power, morality, they were all such a big part of what was going on in this book. There's the plan to take down the Shadowlands to be able to kill the Old Kings. And then there was layer after layer of things both Neve, Red, and Solmir didn't know. I loved how it came together!

That was such a great ending! Something that was running throughout this book was balance. It was an underlying part of the first book, but it came front and center in this one, and I loved how that affected how things played out in that ending! 

I loved reading this book, and I can't wait to read more by Hannah Whitten! 

Author: Hannah Whitten
Series: Wilderwood #2
Read: December 16th, 2022
Source: Library
Reason Why: Loved the first book, and it's a End of Series 2022 Book and a Prequel & Sequel Challenge Book! 
Publisher: Orbit
Published: June 7th 2022

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars