The Winner's Crime

Marie Rutkoski

Mar 2015 · The Winner's Trilogy Book 2 · Sold by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

About this ebook

The Winner's Crime, the dazzling follow-up to Marie Rutkoski's The Winner's Curse, reveals the high price of dangerous lies and untrustworthy alliances.

Following your heart can be a crime

A royal wedding is what most girls dream about. It means one celebration after another: balls, fireworks, and revelry until dawn. 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: that she agreed to marry the crown prince in exchange for Arin's freedom. But can Kestrel trust Arin? Can she even trust herself? For Kestrel is becoming very good at deception. She's working as a spy in the court. If caught, she'll be exposed as a traitor to her country. Yet she can't help searching for a way to change her ruthless world . . . and she is close to uncovering a shocking secret.

The truth will come out, and when it does, Kestrel and Arin will learn just how much their crimes will cost them.

Ratings and reviews

I agree that this was more slow paced than the first but I'm a loyal reader to this story and really want to see how A & K's story unfolds but in this one I wanted it to give us something more between Arin & Kestrel where they're not having to contemplate their feelings or hide them from one another. The timing is never right and I just wanted it to be atleast once, in one scene where they could let all that passion take over and just let those raw feelings flow but I hope to get that in the next book.

I liked this one way better than The Winner's Curse. Sucks that you have to wait for the third one. I want to read it now!!

About the author

Marie Rutkoski is the author of The Winner's Curse, The Shadow Society, and the Kronos Chronicles, which includes The Cabinet of Wonders. She is a professor at Brooklyn College and lives in New York City.