Cruel Crown (Red Queen #0.1 - #0.2) by Victoria Aveyard - Review

Book: Cruel Crown (Red Queen 0.1 - 0.2)
Author: Victoria Aveyard
Pages: 142
Read:7 February, 2016
Rating:3/5 Stars

Goodreads Summary:
Two women on either side of the Silver-Red divide tell the stories no one else knows.

Discover the truth of Norta's bloody past in these two revealing prequels to #1 New York Times bestseller Red Queen.

Also includes an exclusive excerpt of the hotly anticipated second book in the Red Queen series! Glass Sword transports readers to the world of Silver tyranny, a Red dawn rising, and one girl's resolve to break down the system that will hold her back no longer.

Queen Song
Queen Coriane, first wife of King Tiberias, keeps a secret diary—how else can she ensure that no one at the palace will use her thoughts against her? Coriane recounts her heady courtship with the crown prince, the birth of a new prince, Cal, and the potentially deadly challenges that lay ahead for her in royal life.

Steel Scars
Diana Farley was raised to be strong, but being tasked with planting the seeds of rebellion in Norta is a tougher job than expected. As she travels the land recruiting black market traders, smugglers, and extremists for her first attempt at an attack on the capital, she stumbles upon a connection that may prove to be the key to the entire operation—Mare Barrow.

Plot: 4

Characters: 3

Writing: 3

Review:

Queen Song was a really good story. I liked the writingstyle that Victoria Aveyard uses, she gets her readers and sucks them in instanlly. Queen Song is about the first wife of King Tiberias. Cal's mother. You get a glims of her life before she became Queen and which people were important in her life. I liked that she was a real person, she wasn't your typical good girl and also not your typical bad girl. She had both qualities. She had her bad mood, er snobbisch attitude, but also her kind heart towards the Red's and her family (most of all her brother). 

She meets the second wife of King Tiberias, Queen Elara. In this story, she isn't Queen yet, but she is just as evil as she is in Red Queen. You don't get alot of her in this short story, but you get the accusasions towards Queen Elara for potentially 'killing' Queen Coriane. I really liked the story and i wished that Queen Song was longer.

Steel Scars didn't get me that much. I didn't like the main character of the story to begin with. Captain Farley never got to my liking in Red Queen, and now that she had her own short story she still isn't my favorite. I didnt like the writing style in this story because they uses Code languages. But is was nice to get to know how Shade came to be with the Scarlet Guard. If it wasn't for Steel Scars i would have given Cruel Crown 4 stars, but Captain Farley didn't do it for me. 

I much rather would have liked to read the story of Queen Elara point of vieuw. But mayby in the future we get that, let's hope so!

Overall a good story to Red Queen, looking forward to read Glass Sword! 

Love, Hedi