Book: Buried Heart by Kate Elliott
Published July 2017 by Little, Brown Books For Young Readers|465 pages
Where I Got It: I borrowed the hardcover from the library
Series: Court Of Fives #3
Genre: YA Fantasy
The explosive finale to World Fantasy Award finalist Kate Elliott’s captivating, New York Times bestselling young adult series
In this third book in the epic Court of Fives series, Jessamy is the crux of a revolution forged by the Commoner class hoping to overthrow their longtime Patron overlords. But enemies from foreign lands have attacked the kingdom, and Jes must find a way to unite the Commoners and Patrons to defend their home and all the people she loves. Will her status as a prominent champion athlete be enough to bring together those who have despised one another since long before her birth? Will she be able to keep her family out of the clutches of the evil Lord Gargaron? And will her relationship with Prince Kalliarkos remain strong when they find themselves on opposite sides of a war? Find all the answers in this beautifully written and exciting conclusion to World Fantasy Award finalist Kate Elliott’s debut New York Times bestselling young adult trilogy!
I’ve really enjoyed this series but I didn’t enjoy this book as much as I enjoyed the previous two. I had a harder time getting into this book, and it seemed a lot more complicated than the previous books. I did struggle to keep up with the characters, and what was going on, particularly with Prince Kalliarkos and his family.
I don’t think I read it at the best time, and maybe I just wasn’t in the mood for a fantasy. Still, I did really like it, and it was a pretty good ending to the series.
In particular, I really liked seeing how Jess dealt with both her Efean heritage and her Saroese heritage. She didn’t really belong to either world, and it felt like she was very much torn between both. You see what a balancing act it is for her, and how she ended up being part of the revolution.
I really felt for the Efean people, and the anger they felt at their land and their way of life being overtaken. While it will take a long time for the dust to settle, things felt really hopeful, and I liked that there was hope that things would get better.
However, it felt like there were endless discussions about the revolution, and not a lot of action. It made the book seem really slow, and there wasn’t enough conflict or struggle in this book to keep me really interested in what happened next. It felt like this book lost the momentum that the previous books had built up.
I also wanted more magic, like the sparks we see in Court Of Fives. Even though it’s fantasy, there weren’t a lot of fantasy elements. The very few that we do see aren’t explored the way I thought they would be.
I was never a fan of the romance between Jes and Kalliarkos, and I thought their relationship ended with a whimper. It seemed so strong in the first book, but by the end of Buried Heart, I found I didn’t really care. He was put in a hard position and Jes also had some things she really needed to work out, but I would have been fine without it in this book. It was also strange, because it seemed liked she wanted to be with Kalliarkos, and yet…it seemed like Ro was an option for her. It felt very sudden, and almost like she settled for him because Kalliarkos wasn’t around a lot. Maybe I’m misreading things, but that’s how it seemed to me.
4 stars. I didn’t love Buried Heart, and it is my least favorite book in the series. It is a pretty solid ending to the series, even if I would have liked a few things to be different.
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