Two Twisted Crowns

How it reads

Two Twisted Crowns is fantasy (romantic fantasy, specifically), and its dominant mood is romantic. The relationship is the engine of the story. The pace is moderate — neither a page-turner nor a slow burn — so it holds up whether you read it in long sittings or short ones.

It's set in an invented world, in no single period, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are love, power and politics and identity. In weight it's light and escapist — easy to fall into.

It's a later book in a series — you'll usually want to start earlier. The ending resolves happily. At 437 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.