Name: The Liar's Knot (Rook & Rose #2)
Author: M.A. Carrick
Publisher: Orbit
Date published: December 2021
Genre: Fiction, adult, fantasy, romance
Pages: 639
Rating: 5/5
Trust is the thread that binds us... and the rope that hangs us.
In
Nadezra, peace is as tenuous as a single thread. The ruthless House
Indestor has been destroyed, but darkness still weaves through the
city’s filthy back alleys and jewel-bright gardens, seen by those who
know where to look.
Derossi Vargo has always known. He has
sacrificed more than anyone imagines to carve himself a position of
power among the nobility, hiding a will of steel behind a velvet smile.
He'll be damned if he lets anyone threaten what he's built.
Grey
Serrado knows all too well. Bent under the yoke of too many burdens, he
fights to protect the city’s most vulnerable. Sooner or later, that
fight will demand more than he can give.
And Ren, daughter of no
clan, knows best of all. Caught in a knot of lies, torn between her
heritage and her aristocratic masquerade, she relies on her gift for
reading pattern to survive. And it shows her the web of corruption that
traps her city.
But all three have yet to discover just how far
that web stretches. And in the end, it will take more than knives to cut
themselves free...
- From Goodreads.
This was an excellent second book in this trilogy. It did not suffer at all from the problem some middle books have where the action and intensity dips, in fact it felt like enough happened that this could have been a final book in a series! It definitely met the expectations set by the first book and I'll be excited to find out how things wrap up in the third!
I think all the character development was done very well in this book. Each character had a different personal journey but they still all linked to each other's stories, and even the smaller side characters had good development. I still cared about each main character and became even more deeply invested in them.
I enjoyed that we got more romance in this book with a couple of different relationships, I think the main romance was paced perfectly and felt like it meant a lot to the characters involved. It was very lovely and sweet and I cared a lot about their happiness together.
The character of the Rook was still very enigmatic even as we came to know more about them. It was fun to see how different characters interacted with them and how everyone was curious to solve the mystery of who they were. They had a great part to play in the story and I'm intrigued to see how that will continue in the next book.
The mysteries of the plot were still very fascinating in this book and it was thrilling to see how it all came to a conclusion at the end, I was pretty anxious to see how all the characters made it out of the situation at the end!
Obviously I loved this book just as much as the first and I will definitely be moving right onto the third and final book! I'm certainly nervous to see how it resolves and how it ends for each character, but I am sure it will be a thrilling adventure!
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