Vilest Things (Flesh and False Gods, #2)
Chloe Gong
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Chloe Gong comes the thrilling sequel to Immortal Longings, inspired by Shakespeare’s Antony & Cleopatra. Calla Tuoleimi has succeeded in the impossible. Despite the odds, she has won San-Er’s bloody games and eliminated King Kasa, her tyrant uncle and the former ruler of Talin. She serves now as royal advisor to Kasa’s adopted son, August Shenzhi, who has risen to the throne. Only Calla knows it isn’t really August. Anton Makusa is still furious about Calla’s betrayal in the final round of the games. In an impossible feat, he took over August’s body to survive, and has no intention of giving up this newfound power. But when his first love, the beautiful, explosive Otta Avia, awakens from a years-long coma and reveals a secret that threatens the monarchy’s authority over Talin, chaos erupts. As tensions come to a boiling point, Calla and Anton must set their conflicts aside and head to the kingdom’s far reaches to prevent anarchy… even if their empire might be better off burning.
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0Is my review going to be predictable, absolutely. I loved this book. I would have devoured this if I had timed my schedule better, but alas. Anyway I absolutely ate up the drama of the book and the developments. Ugh the reveals with the crown and Calla?! I loved the development we got with the characters and the teams that have clearly been made. Honestly Anton better drop Otta like a bag of rocks in the river. Mao Mao better get everything in the world because they deserve the absolute best. I am absolutely loving where the gradual world building is going and the pieces of Calla’s and Otta’s past as we go. Honestly I would love some more Anton information and honestly August is really starting to get on my nerves. With the clear divide in the four characters at this point I know, I just know that the next book is going to hurt.
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This one focused on much more world building then book 1, and while I love world building sometimes it did drag the book. I did guess the big plot twist for the end of the book about 5 chapters in, but it didn't dissuade me.
A lot of previous rules we knew where changed, but not in a retcon way, as the world is changing with these discoveries. It lead me to wonder what else we took as law to be false.
I am looking forward to see how the gods - whether they are truly real or not - play apart of book 3.
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