The Falling Kingdoms series is essentially a YA Game of
Thrones, so once the advertising for a YA book is correct! Usually when books
have a ‘If you like this…you’ll love this.’ sticker, the book its compared too
is nothing like the new release but was a popular book. For example Throne of
Glass had a sticker that read ‘You you loved The Hunger Games, you’ll love
this!’ but in my opinion the Dystopian Hunger Games couldn’t be further from the
High Fantasy Throne of Glass.
However, Falling Kingdoms has many different points of view
from all over the continent and they all interlink with each other in the
storyline. It is full of intrigue, betrayal, lies and love (even some mistaken
incestuous desire) just like Game of Thrones, but containing less explicit
content.
The first book starts off with two of the countries of
Mytica deciding to usurp the king of one of the other country Auranos.
Everything that occurs after is the fallout from this move. Its interesting to
read the points of view from different sides of this war, as as the books
progress the character(s) you’d want on the throne become numerous and
characters you previously might’ve hated, start to grow on you.
The characters are all very individual and very flawed and
as there are a lot of them, when trying to explain how much they need to read
this book its hard to coherently describe the links and all of the characters.
When reading the book it’s a little strange attempting to slip into this strange world straight away that has
many characters in many place, but over time, you stop needing the (very
helpful) character list at the front and can just enjoy the story.
I’ve never been so undecided about love interests in a book.
Usually I read some interaction between two characters and latch on,
unyieldingly. In the first book I had a clear OTP (one true pair) that
continued into the second but everyone seems to kiss everyone at some point and
Morgan constantly makes you question where the characters heart lies. So by the
end of the third book, I don’t know where my heart lies, or the heart of the
characters.
Falling Kingdoms contains magic, but a unique one and also
the mysterious Watchers, who do what their name suggest, watch over the mortals
of the world, but they clearly have a bigger role which is only just beginning
to be unravelled in the third book after many little hints and appearances. It
appears they’ve had much to do with Mytica’s goings on, acting like Gods, which
is very interesting to have these God-like being interacting with the mortals.
Morgan isn’t afraid to kill off characters too, constantly
keeping you on edge and praying for the safety of your favourites.
Also, her writing style is so easy and smooth to read, making
the books quick reads. I read each of
these books in one sitting because you just get pulled in and once you’re in
Mytica, youre there until the book ends, its just SO addicting!
The series has a planned 6 books and there will also be a
spin-off series, so there should be much more great stories coming from this
world!
Id give the series a 4 out of 5 stars.
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