Fantastic read, realistic and gripping world building, and characters that come to life. Highly recommended for fans of Sarah J Maas and Tamora Pierce.

I am usually a fan of Morgan Rice. However, this book was hard to get through. The characters were unlikable. It felt long and repetitive! Thus, it took me to long to get through.

I could not get through this one. The story just was not for me. I didn't connect with the characters at all.

I absolutely loved reading this. Excellent pace, beautiful world building, great development all around and it didn’t take 800 pages to get there! I can’t wait to read more!

This was i DNF for me, I could not get into the writing style of this one, altought I have read books from this author before and loved them

I wanted to love this book, the story sounded great! Once i started reading the story it was pretty meh for me. I only got around half way through the book, and couldnt make myself finish it. I really wanted to love this book. :/

I wasn't able to read this book before it was archived; regardless, thank you for the opportunity! It is greatly appreciated!

An interesting and spellbinding book, I loved this magical world created by Morgan Rice. What I didn't really love though, was the development of the story. All the things had the possibility for greatness, but then the motives and reasons behind things seemed far fetched, and the plot moved like a whirlwind that I couldn't keep up with and just didn't get. The book had a lot of potential with an interesting premise, but just couldn't capitlize on it.

Vote 3.5
The book is really nice but the thing that I missed was the connection with Sophia and Kate, but I recommend it.

I love books with a strong female lead, such as A Throne for Sisters. This fantasy genre novel is slow at times, but I thought it did have its fast paced moments. The ending does set the stage for a series.

As a note, a copy of this novel was sent to me via NetGalley by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not effect my opinions in any way.

This book. Where to begin? Ah, I should start with my usual disclaimer: if a book isn't my cup of tea, that does not make it a bad book. Taste is subjective and what did not work about A Throne for Sisters in my mind, might connect easier with you. It's that simple! So, keep that in mind and let's dive on in:

I can't believe I've put off writing this review since earlier this spring. A Throne for Sisters was VERY appealing to me when I first requested it. The synopsis was right up my alley and the genre? Don't even get me started on how appealing the genre was! And, to be perfectly blunt, the writing and world-building was fantastic--Rice clearly put forth a great deal of effort and development for the book, and forthcoming series.

So what made it not work for me? What made me add this to my DNF pile? A Throne for Sisters is not a bad a book. The truth is, I couldn't connect with the characters and this eventually put me off enough to make me just not read it. A lot of contributing factors were: I just didn't find myself drawn to anyone well enough to stick through it and maybe a little bit that it felt out of my age range.

It felt like the groundwork was all there, but the lack of emotional connection towards the characters and the flow of the first quarter of the book just wasn't for me. There was this uneven balance of, well, most things in this book--a lot of it felt well thought out and highly developed, while there was still a glimmer of something almost nonsensical that put me off.

And once I cast the novel aside, the less likely it became that I would pick it back up.

So, here we are.

Loretta over at Laughing Listener really put my thoughts into word via her own review, which fits in with a lot (if not all) of my reasons for not finishing it: "Right off the bat I could tell this world was well thought out. I was intrigued by it, but dang, we’re thrown right in the action and it was kind of jarring. The opening scene is of sisters Sophia and Kate fleeing their terrible orphanage in a high action chase. But having just met these characters, I found myself weirdly disinterested in the outcome. I wish there had been a bit more build up to it. It would have been great to have a small glimpse of their life in the orphanage and their familial bond before seeing them run away. I would have cared a lot more."

Ultimately, this wasn't for me. But, I still think you should give it a chance if the premise feels like a good fit for your personal preference.

This book was so exciting, I did not know what was going to happen next.
From the get-go I loved the sisters and how well they played off each other and how their differences helped balance them out.
Cant wait to read more!

It was okay. I didn't love nor hate it. I feel like the summary gave too much away and that she told us why we should like the characters instead of showing/describing why they're the main characters.

Well, this was interesting... I don't know how exactly to feel about this book, to be honest. This was not at all what I had expected from the synopsis and the cover. The book cover is beautiful and hints at something a lot more than what I found.

This follows the story of two sisters who have an incredible gift to read minds and communicate with each other telepathically, and the journey they each take towards their dream lives. But, for being close as they presume to be, they split up almost without any real thought for the other and their 'closeness' seems more like an afterthought because of this.

Sophia is the older sister, 17 years old, she is sweet, naive, helpless, and wanting a man to take care of and save her. I was mostly irritated by her part of the plot, it was just so filled with the horrible tropes that grate on nerves, like a poor orphan girl who infiltrates the castle and instantly falls for the handsome prince... I mean, why?

Then there's Kate, 15 years old; now here's a character I can get behind. She is way more grown-up for her age, strong-willed, brave and practical. Her insta-love is not as obvious and can be overlooked as she is not only focused on that aspect of her life.

The world-building is definitely lacking, we barely learn about the world and the war and the religion, which seems to be a major part of the story and gets hinted at often.

Also, these characters need a lot of growing to keep me interested, especially Sophia, she needs a backbone and to stop wanting a man to save her... Sheesh!

I would be interested in picking up the second book, purely to see where the story goes and if we get answers to so many open plot-points and roads not taken. So, we'll see... The potential is definitely there for this to be an incredible series, but... On the fence here.

The premise was interesting, the idea of two sisters with psychic abilities was a refreshing change from the current fantasy titles out there. However they spent a majority of (short) book apart and the insta-love was so typical of what I read nowadays for this genre.

Sophia and Kate are orphan sisters abandoned at an orphanage where they are abused. When they are of age, they are set to be auctioned off to the highest bidders, who are usually brothel owners. The sisters find themselves on the run and hunted by guards and bounty hunters eager to claim the reward on their capture. They separate in the hopes of throwing off they hunters. One lies and steals her way into a royal ball and the other into a job at a weapon maker’s service. Will their new disguises keep them safe?
The novel is fast moving and easy to read, but I wish the characters were more developed as people with more than superficial needs.

This was....a book. For me, I felt as though the story progression didn't make sense. The girls are running from a terrible life, but one so happens to get a prince to fall in love with her as soon as she meets him and the other is almost immediately taken on as an apprentice to a blacksmith? Everything was just too convenient.
I also don't see how this title fits the story. There is no real lead up to a throne or any indication that one of the girls was meant to be on the throne to begin with.

Overall, I feel like this one just fell exceptionally short.

I should probably start this with a warning of my only child status, which causes me to have a disconnect with sibling relationships in books sometimes. I don’t really know what’s it’s like to be or have a sibling and I think I can judge characters too harshly because of this. That being said, I had a hard time relating to Sophia in this story and ultimately ended up not finishing the book.

Right off the bat I could tell this world was well thought out. I was intrigued by it, but we’re thrown RIGHT IN the action and it was a little jarring. The opening scene is of sisters Sophia and Kate fleeing their terrible orphanage in a high action chase. But having just met these characters, I found myself weirdly disinterested in the outcome. I wish there had been a bit more build up to it. It would have been great to have a small glimpse of their life in the orphanage and their familial bond before seeing them run away. I would have cared a lot more.

After they ditch their pursuers, Sophia and Kate must decide what to do next and they have very different opinions. I really admired Kate’s strength and her longing for freedom. She wanted to flee to the countryside where they could learn to fight and take care of themselves away from prying eyes. Which to me, makes perfect sense. But Sophia comes up with some plan to become a royal? She wants to go to the castle and just blend into high society??

It’s also pretty apparent that Sophia knows what happened to their parents and Kate doesn’t. They’ve spent years in a horrific orphanage and poor Kate has no idea why. Sophia refuses to share it with her for whatever reason and I also had a hard time with that. Maybe Sophia’s reasons were good, but it's hard to imagine any reasonable explanation for why she would keep something of that magnitude from her own sister.

Sorry, this one just wasn’t really for me, but I appreciated the excellent world building!

Okay but first, oh my god. I don't know how, but I knew there was going to be some sort of ending that I really really would not like. (Cliffhangers are not fun when you have no way to get your hands on book two!)

I'm going to try and write out some form of coherent thought so we're going to see how this goes.

Our protagonists, Sophia (17) and Kate (15) are sisters with a telepathic talent. The two escape on Sophia's birthday and separate as they run, each with their own goals in mind on how to survive.

Sophia, who chose to infiltrate the nobles court and marry rich to escape the city, finds herself instead in the arms of the youngest Prince of the kingdom – instalove, really. It's the part of this storyline I felt was really shallow. As the elder of the two sisters, who had had to endure with a more developed mind, Sophia's entire thought process came off quite shallow and conceited for me and I felt that her idea of "survival" held more holes than her sisters. Her background was that she'd escaped death and destruction from over the waters, where war was raging and threatening to spill over – she finds a friend on the inside, Cora, who was previously raised in the orphanage too and is now conveniently the makeup artist for the noblewomen there. I would have liked to see more between Core and Sophia, I think it would have given more into the background of both the two girls and that a strong bonded friendship between them would have made sense considering that they were both alone (and Sophia was without the only family she'd grown up with). Cora's background would have also been interesting – a new dynamic on how life after the orphanage might have turned out had Sophia stayed.

Kate, who chose to somehow find her way into an apprenticeship and then into the free garrisons to fight, finds herself aiding a blacksmith with a son who has just (conveniently) left to fight this massive war across the ocean. She comes off as the more practical of the two sisters, I think, and I felt she was more successful in her survival plan in the long run – Sophia's seemed like a short-term solution to a huge problem, with way too many pitfalls.

The pace of the whole book was quick. There's no waiting around doing random things before the story kicks off, which is both good and bad. Good because everything in the story was moving forward and I wasn't lulled into any sense that things were about to get boring. But bad because it was over quite soon, and there was a lot left unanswered – this also meant that most of the plot twists were left as half cliffhangers that spurred you on!

Of the two sisters, I enjoyed Kate's storyline more than Sophia's but after the ending, I have no idea what I feel. I just know that I want to continue with this series because there are so many unanswered questions – I want to know more about the intricacies behind this war, how it started and why; to see more of the princes, Rupert and his violence and Sebastian and his golden heart, to find out how they became that way; the world building in more intricate layers, how the religion of this Masked Goddess meets the politics of the Royals and nobles; the back stories of those who helped the sisters survive their time; what happens next to Sophia, and to Kate, and more of their past and explanation about their powers. It's a long list, I know, but this book has opened doors to a vast amount of potential directions that I'm so excited for.

I recommend this book for those who enjoy reading a series where survival is everything, particularly with many walls of conflict surrounding the main characters.
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4.5/5

I do not like cliff hangers... I really do not like cliff hangers when the book was really good and I must now jump into the next book. And this book I loved. It was a story of two sister Kate and Sophia and I must admit that I was more a fan of Sophia's story than Kate's but they were both great. I am ready to see what Book 2 has to offer.