Kestrel a bird of
prey and also our main character in The Winner's Curse by
Marie Rutkoski, is the daughter of the Valorian emperor's favorite
general. She is wealthy and beautiful and has everything she could
want. Yet still she has pain and difficulty.
Kestrel struggles
within herself and with her father over the strictures of her
culture. She purchases a slave, against her own moral compass.
Eventually, she
struggles for her life in a storm.
Kestrel loves to
play games. The question: will she always win in the most important
plays?
I enjoyed this book
maybe more than I would if I'd read it before the second and third
parts of the trilogy. I enjoyed knowing how things brought up (loose
ends, if you will) in this part reappear and/or tie up and conclude
in the second and third parts. I didn't mean to do it that way.
However, I think it's a testament to the good storytelling of
Rutkoski that the story of this book is enjoyable even when the rest
of the trilogy has already been enjoyed.
This is youth to
young adult fiction. It is enjoyable to read and has only a few
steamy scenes, though not graphic at all. I will wait to allow my
now twelve year old to read this until she's at least sixteen more
because the inter-relations of characters and the internal goings-on
is of a mature nature and tone.
What do you think of
The Winner's Curse? What did you like about it?
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