ARC Review: The Stolen Throne by Abigail Owen

This book is everything (at least for right now 😍).  Picking up where the Liar’s Crown left off, Meren has been taken by Eidolan, posing as her sister, leaving the rest of the group from the Shadowland and Wanderers to figure out a way to get her back.  What happens next is quite sweeping as Reven finds a way to get Meren back, but at what cost to the both of them?

A lot happens in this book.  Physically this group covers a lot of territory as they try to find a way to defeat Eidolon. They have to trek through different dominions, figure out who is an ally, fight off creatures, learn the depths of their powers, and devise some semblance of a plan that leads to their defeat over evil.  But then there is the emotional toll all this takes on Meren and Reven.  They spend a lot of time fighting their emotional connection to one another.  They both want it but at what cost?  Their despair over what they feel for each other and the fight they have before them could almost be a secondary character (it’s that strong).  Add in what Meren feels for her sister, Cain and the friends she’s made and it’s almost too much raw emotion.  But somehow the author merges this all together to give us a hero and heroine that pull at the heartstrings and having us cheering for them to continue to fight.

January 2024 feels like such a long way off, but that is when the final installment to the series The Shadows Rule All will come out.  If you haven’t started this series yet, you can pick up the first book, The Liar’s Crown for $1.99 on Amazon (https://amzn.to/3yFK3Wv).