"There is nothing so terrible as a story untold.”

Actual rating: 4.5 stars.

This is the year of finally finishing this book series that are glaring at me from the shelves. And so I'm picking the Red Queen series again! I really enjoyed some background on these important characters - it not only gave me some information that I believe will be relevant to the series, but it gave me insight into some of the characters I already met in the first book and made their actions more believable and interesting. I especially loved Coriane's novel. I loved her character and felt so sorry for this intelligent, kind and lonely girl. I like how she started to question the Silver superiority, and how she really, really loved Tiberias and how he loved her back. And this highlighted how much Elara is coy and devious. I hate this woman so so much more now! Farley was a surprise. I didn't expect to like her novella as much, but I felt engrossed in her story - how she met Shade, the inner workings of the Scarlet Guard (which was super important to understand a bit more of the main series in itself) and how she met Mare. It also gave the character a bit of humanity - she is not just the fearless 'leader' of Norta's Scarlet Guard, she's also a girl with a lot of secrets, who wants to change things and is clever and kind.

I had a little bit of a hard time getting into the second novel, Steel Scars, and that's mainly why I took half a star from the grade, but I still loved it.