Name: Daughter of Winter and Twilight (Queen of Coin and Whispers #2)
Author: Helen Corcoran
Publisher: The O'Brien Press
Date published: September 2023
Genre: Fiction, young adult, fantasy
Pages: 576
Rating: 5/5
'Magic was dormant - never dead'
To some, Emri - the adopted heir and daughter of two queens - is a living reminder that her birth father tried to usurp the Edaran throne. While Emri grapples with a diplomatic visit from her estranged cousin, Melisande, the two girls are attacked by a magical force and spirited away. They must put their differences aside when Emri comes face to face with a goddess she’s always considered a myth: Lady Winter.
Trapped deep within a mountain temple alongside other young royals, they face a race against time to complete Lady Winter’s trials... or die.
- From Goodreads.
This was a wonderful follow-up to Queen of Coin and Whispers. It took the world that was established in that first book and really expanded on it while also taking the plot in a new and exciting direction. Since the existence of magic and the gods were mentioned in the first book, but were not actually present, it was intriguing to see them actually become real and undeniable for the characters and to see their reactions to that.
The jump in time from the first book was also really interesting and it was fascinating to see how the characters we knew from the first book had grown and changed and what had happened to them in that time, as well as to meet new characters who had not even existed during the first book's plot.
I really liked Emri, the main character for this book, I think you could really feel and understand all her emotions, and it was very easy to root for her. It was also interesting to see Lia and Xania from her point of view as parents to her, when in the first book we had seen their story from their perspectives. I think we still got a strong sense of their characters and personalities and they still felt like the characters we knew in the first book, but of course a little older and more experienced.
The romance was a bit more in the background in this book, but I still enjoyed the romance we did get, and I thought it was well done that we saw Emri get to know and begin to like her potential future partner, without it being rushed and how it was clearly shown to be just the beginning of what had the potential to become a very sweet and loving relationship.
I would definitely recommend this if you enjoyed Queen of Coin and Whispers, and if you have not read that yet, I recommend both if you enjoy books with intriguing political plot lines and well thought-out worlds and well-rounded characters. If you like Samantha Shannon's Roots of Chaos series, I think you will like this too.
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