The Heartwood Crown

If I could give this book more than 5 Stars, I certainly would. As I read the last quarter of the book, I felt anxiety attack after anxiety attack happen along with so many different emotions. I cried, I was happy, sad, pissed off, content, resolved, surprised...and that's only a few. Yes, there wer......more

3.5 Stars THE HEARTWOOD CROWN picks up fairly closely after the first book. Readers will get to see what's going on with the characters they're familiar with from the first book and get to know some additional characters. The plot is still not resolved, but there are also additional challenges these......more

Wow. This book does everything a sequel should. It expands the world, giving us a larger picture of the land we already know. It moves the characters forward in interesting and important ways (without cheating). It gives us shocking new revelations. It leaves us wanting more. Give me book 3 now, ple......more

Mikalatos continues to make a world full of vibrant stories, histories, mythos, poetry, and lore. All of the characters breath life onto the page as you suffer and fight alongside them. He creates such a believable world by bringing horrible truths from our own; he speaks to slavery, bigotry, hatred......more

This book was much like the first in that I had trouble sorting out what Mikalatos was trying to say politically. There were definitely political themes intertwined in the plot, but it was difficult to tell what solution Mikalatos was offering. Also like the first book, I found many of the character......more