Melina Marchetta's Froi of the Exiles
I'd forgotten that the second book of the Lumatere series is much harder to read than the first--and that one wasn't exactly a laugh a minute. In this one, the characters from the first book are trying to put their kingdom back together after the horrors they faced for ten years--and meanwhile, they've sent one of their own to assassinate the neighboring king who caused it all, except things there are more complicated than they could have imagined. And all the characters are just completely broken people; it's very sad to read. I will say that this could have been edited a bit more--Froi's moods and decisions seem really inconsistent sometimes, though I guess he is dealing with more crap than basically any character ever. Ugh, heartbreaker of a book.
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