Review: The White Rose by Amy Ewing

The White Rose by Amy Ewing
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I received this free eARC novel from Edelweiss in exchange for my honest review.

Violet was caught by the Countess with Ash and was able to escape from her clutches, along with saving Ash and her friend Raven, who was on the brink of death. Lucian came through in the end, but only by having a lot of allies in usual places.

Now the trio needs to escape the Jewel and get to the Farm - the farthest circle of the city. With security on their tails trying to find Ash, a wanted fugitive for allegedly raping Violet (not true, by the way), everyone has to face their worst nightmares in order for them to truely escape.

The more Violet is away from the Jewel, the more people she realizes are against this system that is in place with the royals, and the more they are risking their lives to help her, the savior of this war. But Violet has no idea how she is supposed to save everyone.

Only when she gets to the house on the Farm does she meet someone who has fined toothed their Auguries to what they really are: a connection with life. By having this power and this knowledge, everyone believes that all surrogates could possibly win this war - which is why the royalty has always trained the surrogates to do the opposite of what their real power is.

With this knowledge, Violet needs to figure out how she can use this power to stop the corrupted palace from spreading their evil ways, before it is too late.

This book literally picked up right where the first one ended, so I am very glad that I waited until all books were released before starting this. Otherwise I would have had to re-read all of the books over and over again!

The more I read about Violet, the more I like her and admire her strength. I also admire her dedication to save the people that she loves, because most would be determined to just save their own skin, rather than Violet who saved two people who mean the most to her.

I loved seeing the characters travel to the Farm because I was able to see the other layers of the circles that make up the city. Seeing the Bank and the Smoke really put things into perspective of how life is for these characters, and it makes me appreciate my life more and more.

Raven is one of my favorite characters. I can't even imagine what that girl has gone through, but she has been through nightmares and torture I wouldn't want myself in, and yet she is still tough and brave. She is determined not to forget herself, even when it would probably be easier to just let go.

Ash may have grown on me a little during this book, but overall he is still annoying to me. Now Garnet is a bit of a mystery and a surprise. I loved seeing him pop in and out of the story, even when I thought it was more probable that his mother would have trapped him in the palace. But seeing his character grow is phenomenal to me, and I am definitely looking forward to seeing him in the third book.

Lucian got put in his place after being the "boss" from the first book, and I appreciated that. Violet was a weaker character who was not sure what her role was, but now that she does, she is more strong and has decided to make her own decisions without Lucian judging her the whole time, which I appreciated.

This book was slightly better than the first, and of course there is another cliffhanger ending so I am intrigued to read the third and final book to see how everything comes about!

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