The Winner's Crime by Marie Rutkoski (416 Pages)
Summary: 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.
Opinion: This book was good, but also frustrating. The plot twist from the end of the first book made more sense to me after learning about the emperor's plans, but both Arin and Kestrel were guilty of major miscommunication tropes multiple times throughout this one book, which really irks me. I felt like Kestrel and Arin knew each other so well from the first book so they wouldn't have actually fallen for each others constant lies.
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