(Did anyone else think this came a little bit out of nowhere?)

When she was born, an oracle said that her one blue eye and one green marked her and that she would be the ruin of the island.

Well, we still didn’t get all the answers (especially about her parentage), but we learned several new things about Jules: Perhaps he had another fling during Beltane and Jules was the result? What did we learn in One Dark Throne? A few people threw out the idea that Jules is related to the queens not via their mother but by their father, the King-Consort. BUT upon a reread of the book, it does seem that Madrigal has memories of giving birth to Jules (and that seems even more solidified in book two). But what if someone wanted to save them and they found a way to hide the fact that they were quadruplets? After reading this theory, I was convinced it was true. In this case, the fourth-born should have been a Blue Queen and the others should have been drowned by the midwife when they were babies.

We all agreed that she’s obviously very important, but the most intriguing theory thrown out there (first by Shannon It Starts at Midnight, I believe) was that the queens were actually quadruplets. There were lots of other theories about Jules as well, of course.

I wasn’t sure if that meant Katherine and Jules were switched at birth, though? Other commenter’s theories: I based this on her strong naturalist powers and on the fact that she was a Beltane baby who supposedly looks nothing like her family. My theory was that Jules was going to turn out to be the true Naturalist queen. I’m going to go through some of the predictions that we all had after reading the first book and see how many of them were correct, and I’ll also add in some of my predictions about what will happen in books three and four! Jules My original theory: And there was a lot of excitement! So, let’s dive right in… I just finished book two of this series, and it was just as good as I was hoping it would be! We may not have gotten all of our questions answered (of course-there are still two more books!), but we did learn a lot in this installment. NOTE: In case you missed the title of this post, BE WARNED NOW THAT IT WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS! If you want my non-spoilery thoughts on this book, check out my review instead! Or, if you’ve only read the first book, then feel free to check out my Spoiler-Filled Discussion of Three Dark Crowns! (And then immediately read One Dark Throne and come back here!)

One dark throne two dark reigns