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The Winner's Crime (2000)

by Marie Rutkoski(Favorite Author)

3.89 of 5 Votes: 6

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Romance

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The Winner's Trilogy

review 1: All I can say is that was one of the most intensely heartbreaking and frustrating books I've read for a while. I actually had to have a conversation with myself to not let this book and horribly declining storyline affect me so much. There's really no point of hope in this book and that's what killed me the whole time. Hopefully the finale will be better...here's to waiting two years to find out...
review 2: The Winner's Crime was painful to read and not because the plot or the writing was bad. You know what's coming. You don't know when, you don't know how but you know. From the beginning I was screaming at Kestrel to use her head ... and she did but ahe let her heart overrule it. She couldn't resist Arin ... until it was too late. I never really saw why she l... moreoved Arin so much maybe it's the lure of the forbidden but I just wanted to slap some sense into him. He was so transparent and he couldn't or rather didn't appreciate the difficult situation Kestrel was in. She saved his people and instead of paying them the slightest attention he alternates between mooning over Kestrel and hating her. These two weren't even subtle and I was surprised that there wasn't more casualties in their love affair. They acted like the lovestruck adolescents they were with no thought of the consequences of their actions. It annoyed me how Arin convinced a servant to put her neck on the chopping block because he was suffering as a result of his inability to control himself. The guy wears his heart on his sleeve. What does he expect when he is blatantly in love with the emperor's future daughter-in-law? Even though he claims to love Kestrel he treats her so unfairly. Yes, her people enslaved his and many other and yes Arin has a right to be angry but excuse a girl for wanting her father's safe return. Yes the strategy that she devised is likely to have resulted in the death of many but the alternative was much worse. The end of the novel was bittersweet for me. Kestrel finally gets her act together and is behaving like an adult with responsibilities ... and then it's ruined. Arin, Arin, Arin, how oblivious can you be? And poor, poor Kestrel. To be betrayed by someone she loved so much. To know that he chose someone else over her. It takes a talented author to make her readers so emotionally invested in her characters. Marie Rutkoski does it flawlessly. The amount times I cried and wanted to throw my kindle across the room was unreal. The wait for the last book in this trilogy will be tortuous. Thank you so much to Bloomsbury Publishing and Netgalley for making my year with an arc of this incredible novel. less

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chiesy

This was a very painful read...too predictable and characters typically acting the same as they did in the first book even though this is a whole new playing field. I honestly don't think I am going to be able to finish this series

nowd68

I want to cry! Gosh darn it! So painfully good. Review to follow soon. :)

bookobsessed

Can't wait for the end of this trilogy.

mairelistamayo

Can we change the book cover?

shamey

Mourning. (╥_╥)

izunique

2015 omg

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