The Winner's Crime (Winner's Trilogy, #2)

by Marie Rutkoski

[Stephanie]

I had to take some time away from this book for a while. I loved the beginning, hated the middle, and enjoyed the end enough to want to read the third book.

Once I got about 100 pages in, it started to get harder for me to want to pick the book up and read. I think it mostly had to do with Arin and Kestrel's relationship. It became so frustrating to read about them. If only they just said what they were thinking! I started enjoying the book again when the two were apart and not interacting with each other.

I loved their relationship in the first book, where their relationship is the main focus. In The Winner's Crime their relationship takes a back seat and is very strained with all the politics happening. Which is great, I loved the politics part of it all, but to go from rooting for the couple in the first book, to being so annoyed by the 2 in the second book because they won't tell each other the truth about anything is so frustrating!

Overall, took me forever to get myself to get through it, enjoyed it, will read the next book.