Iron Crowned by Richelle Mead

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Iron Crowned is the third book in Richelle Mead’s Dark Swan series. In this book, Eugenie continues to attempt juggling her role of queen of the Thorn Land with being a Shaman/exorcist in the ordinary world. She is not very successful due to having to fight a war against Katrice of the Rowan Land, whose son had kidnapped and raped Eugenie repeatedly in the previous book in order to fulfill a prophecy that states the Eugenie’s first born son would conquer the ordinary world. (I am still kind of reminded of Laurell K. Hamilton’s Merry Gentry series because of this plot point.)

Due to the fall out of the ending of Thorn Queen, Eugenie is now dating and allied with Dorian, King of the Oak Land. Another consequence of the outcome is that Eugenie’s step father Roland is no longer speaking to her. (This sort of nails down the coffin on my dislike of this character, which was born roughly around the time where he didn’t have a problem that a fellow Shaman was kidnapping and selling young “gentry” women.) She is also finding it difficult to take cases in the ordinary world due to how busy she is, (which is causing her assistant/secretary Lara a great deal of frustration).


Iron Crowned