A review by booksalacarte
Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Two Twisted Crowns 5⭐️ 3🌶️
 
New Adult Fantasy Romance
Multi POV
Atmospheric 
Unique Magic system
Secret powers
Flashbacks
Found family
Forbidden love
Revenge
Slow burn
Secret history



With Two Twisted Crowns picking up right where One Dark Window left off, readers can be right back in the thick of Rachel Gillig’s entrancing writing. With the gothic atmosphere of wild and twisted woods and a mist creeping in, you feel the timeline trickling through the characters fingers as they try to right centuries of wrongs before their time is up. The unique magic system keeps revealing secrets in every crack of this story. Darling side characters get the space to blossom and stretch their roots and explore a love you didn’t see coming in the first book. The threads of plot were so perfectly crafted and laid in One Dark Window that Two Twisted Crowns to picked up beautifully to run with and tie into a fitting conclusion I adored.

The romances are balanced nicely with the high fantasy elements of this story, providing a satisfying slow burn and the aching The pacing kept my heart racing. And the character arcs were superb.

This duology skyrocket to the top of my favorite reads within the first chapters of One Dark Window, and held tightly to my heart until the last words of Two Twisted Crowns. I haven’t jumped so quickly to love a story since I read Hannah Whitten’s Wilderwood duology. 

Thank you to NetGalley and Orbit Books for an Advanced eReader Copy of this book in exchange for my Hubert review.