The Curse of the King (Seven Wonders, #4)

by Peter Lerangis

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Also known as the fourth book in the Seven Wonders series. I've been having a reading slump recently and I think by trying to finish series I previously started + liked I'll hopefully be getting out of it soon. Since I have one Novella and one book left in this series I'm going to focus on them and get it done before moving onto anything else.

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I did enjoy that the events didn't have a break in them, like the ending of the third book leads directly into what happened in this book instead of having some time pass and then we continue. It could very well be because the kids are on a very deadly time limit, in either case I do like how Lerangis is portraying it. However, I honestly don't think that bringing any romance into this was necessary. He didn't make it cheesy and overbearing but it was still something that made me role my eyes a bit, maybe it's because I think that there should be way more important things than that at the moment or in their age as a whole but again thankfully we kind of moved away from that and actually focused on the important things.

The other thing that actually came as a surprise was the appearance of a character that was in the Novella, I didn't really expect any of the side stories in this series to actually be relevant in the main story other than background information and getting to know the world a little bit more but actually having one of those characters appear in the story in such a position was an interesting move, makes me really glad that I got familiar with that character before their appearance and of course raises huge questions on what exactly are they aiming to do in the bigger scheme of things? What was said in the book or shown to be the reason in the book can't be the only reason right? I don't know feels iffy a bit.

The characters seem to act mature one minute and then really annoying in the other, which I can blame if on them being children. What I couldn't really let go I guess was another thing, in the very first book they were divided into 4 different roles for them to play in their journey but in this book in particular it had instances where it showed them as kind of stupid in areas that were not apart of their expertise. It might've been Peter Lerangis's way of being funny or humorous with the characters but I don't think it works out that well for it the end. Or at least it didn't for me.

I did like the whole encounter with "King" by it also raises some obvious plot holes that weren't answered and given what happened in the end of the book I'm not sure it ever will be so it leaves me disappointed a bit but still with a tiny hope that somethings will be clearer later. I did enjoy it in the end, books 2&3 were better with 2 being my favourite of them so far but not a bad read by any means.

Final rating: 3/5