Kendare Blake's Pronunciation Guide | Three Dark Crowns Series

Kendare Blake, author of the Three Dark Crowns Series, is here with a guide on pronouncing some of the characters, places, and events in her book!

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[queendsheena]

I love her nuanced 'i don't give a shit' attitude. Hey as long as the readers love the book, pronounce the words the best you can.

[AwkwardBookworm]

I love how half the time she's like idek guys 😂

[ashtoneva]

I love her chill attitude toward her readers pronouncing the names. She's such an awesome person. As long as we're enjoying her stories, she doesn't care how we pronounce it.

[aprilhill]

I appreciate the pronunciation guides, I remember my brother commenting back when the Lord of the Rings movies came out how happy he was to finally have a pronunciation for some of the names that his brain refused to decipher.

[ReadingMissFroggy]

I pronounce some things wrong but I'm happy to see that she doesn't really care that much about it xD

[sweetlivs]

I pronounced all of these correctly except for Katherine and Gave Noir. Katherine for obvious reasons and I pronounced the Gave in Gave noir like Gavé.

[adinaleah]

The name “arsinoe” comes from ancient Egyptian times. Arsinoe was Queen Cleopatra’s sister, who Cleopatra murdered. “Arsinoe” is actually pronounced “ar-sin-oh-ey”

[A.renee]

I like how the audio book pronounces arsenoe (I people spelt that wrong ) arsen - oy lol

[nikkiej.]

I pronounced all of them right. Usually I will mispronounced a lot of the words. Almost done with Three Dark Crowns. I'm really enjoying it. I already checked out book #2.

[aissataamadou]

I love when their are reading guides bc I tend to butcher names in the weirdest of ways 😅, I actually just got this book in the mail and am so excited to read it soon!

[dissydemon]

I'm assuming Jules is pronounced 'Jewels' but what about her full name? How do you pronounce Juillenne??

[carinabooks]

Yay :D I loved this. <3 Kendare is awesome. Only had one or two wrong ;)

[rvuzeeq]

I'm just glad I said all of them right the entire time

[ranaabdelwahed]

I had such a hard time with Caragh and Pietyr but when someone says it it sounds so simple🙈😂

[tinytuzi]

What!!! mind blown. I've been pronouncing everything wrong and I call myself a fan😭

[lucinaestefania]

Thank you I’m reading the book in Spanish and some names I was saying wrong, I’m going to practice the pronunciation

[LetsStopThisSong]

i can’t believe i actually pronounced the gave noir correctly in my head

[joshuagraham]

omg I need to talk to someone about that ending

[draven_of_chaos]

For Arsinoe I said "R-sin-no-E".
For Pietyr I said "Pit-air" / "Pit-ear"
For Julienne I said "Jew-lee-eye-nn" / "Julie-ine" 'ine' as in 'nine'.
For the Breccia Domain I always said either "Brr-ehh-C-ya" / "Brick-uh", sometimes my brain read it as Macedonia.

[LetsStopThisSong]

oh my brain had the worst time reading Pietyr’s name, after a while i was like “fuck it, i’ll call him Peter” and it ended up being pronounced like that 😂