Winterkeep

Kristin Cashore

2021 • 530 pages

Ratings24

Average rating4

Four years after Bitterblue left off, a new land has been discovered to the east: Torla; and the closest nation to Monsea is Winterkeep. Winterkeep is a land of miracles, a democratic republic run by people who like each other, where people speak to telepathic sea creatures, adopt telepathic foxes as pets, and fly across the sky in ships attached to balloons.

But when Bitterblue’s envoys to Winterkeep drown under suspicious circumstances, she and Giddon and her half sister, Hava, set off to discover the truth–putting both Bitterblue’s life and Giddon’s heart to the test when Bitterbue is kidnapped. Giddon believes she has drowned, leaving him and Hava to solve the mystery of what’s wrong in Winterkeep.

Lovisa Cavenda is the teenage daughter of a powerful Scholar and Industrialist (the opposing governing parties) with a fire inside her that is always hungry, always just nearly about to make something happen. She is the key to everything, but only if she can figure out what’s going on before anyone else, and only if she’s willing to transcend the person she’s been all her life.

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**Books in the Graceling Realm series**

1. [Graceling][1]
2. [Fire][2]
3. [Bitterblue][3]
4. Winterkeep

[1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15702282W
[2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL11728428W
[3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16262971W

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5 primary books6 released books

#4 in Graceling Realm

Graceling Realm is a 6-book series with 6 released primary works first released in 1992 with contributions by Kristin Cashore.

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Ivy

An excellence balance between adorable and heartbreaking, well done! I like Bitterblue MUCH better in this than I did in her own book where it was just political intrigue and sneaking around.

Writing wise, Lovisa and Bitterblue are my favorite dynamic in ever, because Bitterblue is like, Lovisa several years in the future, once she's had a chance to heal.

April 5, 2021

Mariana

This was such an unserious book .... I loved Giddon's continued character development and I did find myself liking him and Bitterblue together despite the truly alarming age gap but this was a silly book with a silly plot and very oversimplified political dynamics. It felt the most YA. I'm actually not sure how we went from Graceling and Fire to this, and it generally didn't feel like part of the series in any meaningful way. It was fun and I had a great time reading it but it just doesn't live up to its predecessors.

February 20, 2024

nour

4.5 - This book blew me away. Bitterblue still remain my favorite book in the series but this one is probably the strongest.

There were a lot of things i enjoyed. I do like how the author expanded the world. The book feels very different from the previous books, which makes me wonder if it's setting up for a new trilogy. As usual, i loved the politics, but he themes of environments and the new vast technology that would probably affect the seven nations in the next years, added more strength to the world.

My favorite parts are anything with Giddon and Hava, their journey, banter and friendship were the most thing i looked forward to. I was thrilled that Giddon got his own point of view, i didn't think the author could make me love him more after the third book, but i guess i've been proved wrong. I'm also so happy that Giddon and Bitterblue ended up together. It's one of the healthiest relationships i've read about, and i hope to see more of their dynamic in future books.

I'm very excited that the next book is focusing on Hava; she's one of my absolute favorites in this series and i'm dying to see more of her interactions with Bitterblue or Giddon.

I can say for sure that this series made its way among my top favorites, because i can't help but need more of this world and its characters.

May 16, 2022