Forsaken Kingdom (Silent Kingdom Book 2)

I don’t know whether I should scream or cry!!! Okay, listen…

Forsaken Kingdom picks up exactly right after the ending of Silent Kingdom. But, this time around things are getting a lot rougher and far uglier than the first book. This one is all about Halia trying to save her kingdom by finding and saving her cousin, Gillen, the rightful king of Misroth. She sets out traveling to Toryn with her four companions in order to find her cousin. On her way, she and her companions bumped into her old friend, Avrik. All the six of them continue their journey to find Gillen in Toryn. No one can predict that there are other sinister creatures that try to stop their journey or that they will eventually meet other Toryn people in the Calidar or that Halia had to complete a bigger mission than she or anyone expected.

This one is like an upgrade of the first book. The first book was all fun and full of happy moments, but this one, things are getting much dirtier and uglier. There’s a lot of deaths, tortures, blood being spilled, battles, and some drama involving the new characters. The whole thing was so chaotic. But the good thing is that, all of this has its importance, and it has a connection with Halia and her gift of being able to see things through her visions. Halia is the most important character and this book will tell us the reason why she is so important.

I loved the plot. I feel like the author never disappoint and that she knows what she was doing. The plot was so well-crafted and I honestly admired the author’s ability to make everything so complex but also make everything easily connected from this point to that point. At first, it might look like it was so complicated and you might find that some of the things aren’t important, but when you get to the point where everything was revealed, you will find yourself so surprised because everything is important and actually everything is connected to one another. I was shocked too when I found out. It was a brilliant writing. There was some shocking plot twists too, and of course it was necessary to add some twists and turns when it comes to a fantasy story.

The storyline was fine, it does flow so well and the writing was brilliant and excellent too. I seriously enjoyed it a lot, literally devoured the whole book so deeply. I was so invested in the storyline and found that it was so good and much better than the first book because this one has lots of intense moments, and lots of actions that made me nervous and anxious to find out the fate of the characters that I truly cared for. It didn’t disappoint at all, I was feeling so satisfied with the direction that the author go for. I was amazed by how epic the story has become this time. I didn’t expect it to turn out the way it did, and the jaw-dropping and cliffy ending seriously makes me shocked but also I was screaming because I seriously need the next book, like RIGHT NOW!!! I need to know what will happens next and there are so many questions that I have in my mind about the ending and also about the next installment.

This book deals a lot with trust issues and honesty. We’ll get to see the characters that appear in this book have a huge trust issues when it comes to trusting a person or a group of people. And we also get to see the outcome for not being honest to the person we’re close with.

Halia become more fierce and a lot braver in this one. We get to see what other fighting skills she possessed. She is still amazing as she was back in the first book, but here we get to see her acted more as a royalty. We also get to see her leadership skills which truly make her character glowing in this book and I was impressed by her the whole time. Honestly, she’s a great leader when she’s not letting her emotion get in her way and mess with her head and her vision. She can definitely rule a kingdom on her own. When she opens her mouth to speak, I know her speech will be amazing and truly make her look like an actual leader. She never let anyone see her weakness (except for when she cannot control her emotion), and she always has this strong and fierce look on her face every time she faced other people. She doesn’t let anyone look her down or disrespect her, she’s tough and won’t take defeat so easily. She keeps on fighting and survive for her own people, for her kingdom, for her cousin. She’s definitely a selfless heroine.

Avrik has turned into someone so quiet, someone who has a lot of rage and anger on the inside but keeps it quiet on the outside. I understood his pain after what happened in the first book, but I was so disappointed in him here. I liked the upgrade of his fighting skills, he become more skilled than he was before and he definitely becomes tougher too. He rarely showed his weakness, which is hard to see. He has a lot of potential for his character, and I was glad the author didn’t waste his potential, and let’s hoping we get to see him again in the next installment—if he’s alive somewhere.

Narek finally get a time to shine in this book. He was majorly a mystery in the previous book, but this one really showed what type of person he is. He’s more of an anti-hero than a hero, he’s not a bad guy but not a good guy either. I admit I was confused by his character back in Silent Kingdom, it was because I didn’t know his true motive yet. This book really explained what he had suffered in the past and what he meant by ‘freedom’ at the end of Silent Kingdom. He never showed his weakness, he always put a hard expression on his face, but in this one we get to see his expression cracks into sadness and pain. His motive was explained very well.

I loved how well-flowed the whole thing was, and the ending raised more questions than answers. I’m not sure what to expect next but all I can be sure of is that, the next book gonna be a lot more bloodier and more sinister than this one. After that ending, I’m not sure whether they’re all free to go or they will be held captive. I’m definitely looking forward to read Broken Kingdom. I’m so eager to find out what will happens next to everyone.