Once Upon a Twilight!: Read Along: The Winner's Curse by Marie Rutkoski | Chapters 35-48

The Winner's Crime
The Winner's Trilogy #2
Author: Marie Rutkoski
Reading Level: Young Adult
Genre: Fantasy
Released: March 3rd 2015
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux

Book two of the dazzling Winner's Trilogy is a fight to the death as Kestrel risks betrayal of country for love.

The engagement of Lady Kestrel to Valoria’s crown prince means one celebration after another. But to Kestrel it means living in a cage of her own making. As the wedding approaches, she aches to tell Arin the truth about her engagement…if she could only trust him. Yet can she even trust herself? For—unknown to Arin—Kestrel is becoming a skilled practitioner of deceit: an anonymous spy passing information to Herran, and close to uncovering a shocking secret.

As Arin enlists dangerous allies in the struggle to keep his country’s freedom, he can’t fight the suspicion that Kestrel knows more than she shows. In the end, it might not be a dagger in the dark that cuts him open, but the truth. And when that happens, Kestrel and Arin learn just how much their crimes will cost them.

CHAPTERS 35-48

Remember when I was all "I think reading the first book in the series right before the second one comes out is a smart idea. I hate waiting, so much." Yeah well now I have to wait for The Winner's Kiss and that's going to be pure torture.

"Sometimes you think you want something, when what you need is to let it go."

"Stop it. Stop pretending that I don't matter."

So basically that was me getting to the end of this book.

&& then it ended..

Then I had to remember...

SO overall this book was AMAZING. I'm going to truly suffer waiting for the last book. I loved this book so much, I loved watching Kestrel truly using her smarts, being sneaky, outsmarting some of the smartest people around her and being damn good at it.