Arcana Chronicles (4) - Arcana Rising by Kresley Cole
Part 4: Arcana Rising – originally published 2016, I read it in English where it contained 259 pages.
Evie has to go and go fast. Find Tess. Reverse time. Now. But sometimes, not even the world can help… Torn apart, Evie has to run from Luck itself and find her knight, if he hasn’t died as well? She has to make sense of her grandmother, who wasn’t at all what she thought… And the game is about to take a few new turns no one anticipated…
Okay, my theory:
Spoiler:
The Arcana game has not been made because the gods were bored, but to keep Death and Life apart. But if they get a child and really choose one another, the game ends. That would make sense, right? Because some power tries to bring them together – and somehow manipulated Paul – while another one tries everything to keep them apart. I’m sooo so excited for The Dark Calling! And it’s coming in spring!
Well. To Aric and Evie.
As I said before, the ending of Dead of Winter makes sense. I don’t like it, but it does make sense.
But this should have been solved differently.
Evie should have chosen Aric, then gone to Jack, to tell him. He was gone and she panicked, went looking for him (with Aric) and Richter happened. Evie feels immensely guilty for Jack’s death and still loves him, plus she thinks Aric is dead, and she flips. But through this solution, the relationship between her and Aric later on makes far more sense. As does Jack’s decision.
This way, I’m kinda sorry for Aric. He seems a bit pathetic to me. But I love their relationship, how she moves in and stuff like that – I love how they take care of each other, how she uses the married-card at any time she can and how she tries to get him in the armor when they’re not in bed.
A bit protective, isn’t she?
I love it!
I also like the alliance between all the cards. The High Priestess is absolutely fascinating, but look at Sol!
He’s awesome! You never know who he is and what he’ll do next – and he thinks he’s a god. It’s gorgeous.
The alliance, the relationship between Lark and Finn… and the Matthew plot-line (I knew it)… This part of the book was really nice.
But the first was hard to read. Evie’s flipping out was well done, but… it was so dark. It was hard to read. Besides, as I said, the other solution would have made far more sense. And I miss Tess...
I’d love to know how this will turn out…
In brief:
Characters deserve a star, ideas and style. Minus one for the plot. Sorry, this hurts, but the solution just… didn’t really make sense to me.
Prequel: