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Review: The Traitor's Kingdom (The Traitor's Circle #3) by Erin Beaty
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Series: The Traitor's Circle #3
Author: Erin Beaty
Published July 9th 2019 by Imprint
Goodreads Synopsis
Unlikely alliances are forged and trust is shattered in the stunning conclusion to The Traitor’s Trilogy.
A new queen under threat.
An ambassador with a desperate scheme.
Two kingdoms with everything to lose.
Once a spy and counselor to the throne, Sage Fowler has secured victory for her kingdom at a terrible cost. Now an ambassador representing Demora, Sage is about to face her greatest challenge to avoid a war with a rival kingdom.
After an assassination attempt destroys the chance for peace, Sage and her fiancé Major Alex Quinn risk a dangerous plot to reveal the culprit. But the stakes are higher than ever, and in the game of traitors, betrayal is the only certainty.
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Review
This book was just simply perfection! After adoring both of the previous books, I was slightly apprehensive that this wouldn't live up to expectations, or wouldn't be the perfect ending to the series, but it did not disappoint, at all! Following the explosive conclusion of The Traitor's Ruin, Sage is coming to terms with her injuries, and new position as ambassador. She luckily has Clare to rely on, but she herself is grieving the loss of her fiance, Lieutenant Gramwell, who died trying to help, and save, Sage. When they are called back to the capital, along with the Princess Lani, they know that they will soon have a mission that is their most important of all, talking with the Kimisar in a bid to stop the war, once and for all. While in Tennegol, Sage and Alex meet up again, but have very little time to be together, even with the law being changed for them to allow them to marry early. However, with Sage and Prince Robert being the main negotiating partners, with the Queen Regent, Zoraya, there is more on the line than just their romance, and when plots appear left, right, and centre, they need all their wits about them in order to survive until they can be together, properly.
Because of how much foreshadowing has been in the previous books about the relations between Demora and Kimisara, I hoped that we would see a good resolution to it all, and in this book, that's definitely what we got. Any questions we had from previous books, or from early on in this one, were definitely tied up by the end of the story, and there were no plot holes, anywhere. That's not to say not much happened in this book; rather, it was fast-paced, with action on just about every page, and you were completely invested in the plot, until the conclusion.
Like I've said in previous reviews, Sage and Alex are one of my ultimate OTP's, and all I wished from this book was for them to finally be happy together. There were ups and downs again, but I couldn't have been happier with their conclusion, and when they were together, the chemistry and true feelings for each other was apparent in every look and word. Beaty definitely knows how to write a proper relationship, and proper characters, and I definitely can't wait to see what she does next - I don't care what, but I'll be ordering it as soon as it becomes available. Don't sleep on this series anymore, get yourself a copy now!
Dates Read:
July 6-7, 2019Rating
5 Stars
