Castles In Their Bones by Laura Sebastian

Releases Feb 1 2022

A spellbinding story of three princesses and the destiny they were born for: seduction, conquest, and the crown. Immerse yourself in the first book in a new fantasy trilogy from the author of the New York Times bestselling Ash Princess series.

Empress Margaraux has had plans for her daughters since the day they were born. Princesses Sophronia, Daphne, and Beatriz will be queens. And now, age sixteen, they each must leave their homeland and marry their princes.
 
Beautiful, smart, and demure, the triplets appear to be the perfect brides—because Margaraux knows there is one common truth: everyone underestimates a girl. Which is a grave mistake. Sophronia, Daphne, and Beatriz are no innocents. They have been trained since birth in the arts of deception, seduction, and violence with a singular goal—to bring down monarchies— and their marriages are merely the first stage of their mother’s grand vision: to one day reign over the entire continent of Vesteria.
 
The princesses have spent their lives preparing, and now they are ready, each with her own secret skill, and each with a single wish, pulled from the stars. Only, the stars have their own plans—and their mother hasn’t told them all of hers.
 
Life abroad is a test. Will their loyalties stay true? Or will they learn that they can’t trust anyone—not even each other?

Review

The triplets have been raised since birth to marry, and use those marriages to orchastrate the downfall of the kingdoms. All so their mother can rule over it all. The book started off a bit slow for me, in the beginning we are getting alot of the girls arriving at their new homes, and putting the starts of their plans in motion. Sophie, Triz, and Daphne are learning how to navigate the new kingdoms. Even though they had been raised since birth to do what they are doing there were some surprising moments that happen early on that throw a wrench in some of the long term plans. Thankfully all of our sisters are resourceful and do what they can to roll with it.
I have to say I wasn’t prepared to like all of their prospective husbands. I thought their would be at least one dud or horrible one in the mix, but I loved all three of them and hope that we get so much more of them in the next book.
This book was full of twist and turns and about at the 60 -70% mark things really take off. It becomes nonstop action and planning, also a whole lot of our main characters getting themselves in some seriously troubling situations. Then theres that ending… first we get the the last time we see the sisters, which was one jaw dropping cliff hanger. Then we get a chapter from their moms viewpoint, it explains a lot, but also not nearly enough. I am very excited to see where the next book is going to go, and how on earth Triz, Daphne, and Sophie are going to get out of their current circumstances and (finger crossed) all come together and figure out how to take down their mother.

I have voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All opinions are my own