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ameserole's review
3.0
I have received this ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Legend of the Lakes is the third and final installment of The Once and Future Queen. Now it was a good book but I'll admit that I was bored for most of it. Don't get me wrong, it had some interesting parts and betrayals throughout it but nothing really happened that caught my attention until the book was basically over. I just think that I wanted more. Especially when it came to revenge.
Now in the beginning, I just felt bad for Cassandra. She kind of seems to be in a constant zombie mode. She was hurting and just not there for the people who surrounded her. It also broke my heart that she was kept away from her own daughter.. but then again - she wasn't in the right mind frame either.
Other than that, I feel like I got all my questions answered from this series but I just kept hoping for something else to happen. I was suspicious of so many people and I kept thinking we weren't seeing the truth at times as well. It definitely made my brain hurt since most of this was happening right on top of one another.
In the end, it was a cute conclusion that definitely put a smile on my face. I just wanted more action and revenge.
Legend of the Lakes is the third and final installment of The Once and Future Queen. Now it was a good book but I'll admit that I was bored for most of it. Don't get me wrong, it had some interesting parts and betrayals throughout it but nothing really happened that caught my attention until the book was basically over. I just think that I wanted more. Especially when it came to revenge.
Now in the beginning, I just felt bad for Cassandra. She kind of seems to be in a constant zombie mode. She was hurting and just not there for the people who surrounded her. It also broke my heart that she was kept away from her own daughter.. but then again - she wasn't in the right mind frame either.
Other than that, I feel like I got all my questions answered from this series but I just kept hoping for something else to happen. I was suspicious of so many people and I kept thinking we weren't seeing the truth at times as well. It definitely made my brain hurt since most of this was happening right on top of one another.
In the end, it was a cute conclusion that definitely put a smile on my face. I just wanted more action and revenge.
jdalton's review
5.0
Thank you to Netgalley and Harper Collins UK, one more chapter for a review copy of this book.
What a wonderful conclusion to the Once and Future Queen series. There were lots of tears on my end! I wasn’t sure how things were going to conclude but I found the ending satisfactory. I do think the second book in the series was the strongest but this one had some great moments. I highly recommend this whole series to those who love alternate histories mixed with fantasy!
What a wonderful conclusion to the Once and Future Queen series. There were lots of tears on my end! I wasn’t sure how things were going to conclude but I found the ending satisfactory. I do think the second book in the series was the strongest but this one had some great moments. I highly recommend this whole series to those who love alternate histories mixed with fantasy!
moirin's review
3.0
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with an e-arc of this book! My opinions are my own.
The Legend of the Lakes is the last installment in this trilogy. What a ride it has been! After the big plot twist at the end of book 2, I couldn't wait to find out how the story would continue and how the main character Cassandra would deal with what had happened to her!
This book starts off rather slow and it took me some time to connect to the main characters again. We learn more about the ley lines, why they matter so much and how they can be healed. This is necessary information to the story, but it drags on a bit. In the second half of the book the pace picks up and the action starts. It was nice to find out the ending, with a few more betrayals, hidden truths and plot twists to keep us readers entertained.
I enjoyed this trilogy as a whole, but can't help feeling like this isn't the book in the series. The pacing was a bit off and the relationships between the characters developed in ways that didn't always feel natural to me. Which was a pity, because I thought the story in itself was original and worth reading. But I did find myself skipping pages at times.
I can definitely imagine others loving this book more than I did! So if you love a mix of Roman and Celtic culture, you could definitely pick up this trilogy!
The Legend of the Lakes is the last installment in this trilogy. What a ride it has been! After the big plot twist at the end of book 2, I couldn't wait to find out how the story would continue and how the main character Cassandra would deal with what had happened to her!
This book starts off rather slow and it took me some time to connect to the main characters again. We learn more about the ley lines, why they matter so much and how they can be healed. This is necessary information to the story, but it drags on a bit. In the second half of the book the pace picks up and the action starts. It was nice to find out the ending, with a few more betrayals, hidden truths and plot twists to keep us readers entertained.
I enjoyed this trilogy as a whole, but can't help feeling like this isn't the book in the series. The pacing was a bit off and the relationships between the characters developed in ways that didn't always feel natural to me. Which was a pity, because I thought the story in itself was original and worth reading. But I did find myself skipping pages at times.
I can definitely imagine others loving this book more than I did! So if you love a mix of Roman and Celtic culture, you could definitely pick up this trilogy!
the_bama_bookarazzi's review against another edition
5.0
The third book in the trilogy does not disappoint! This book is full of magic, love, friendship, betrayal, and legend. As with both of the other books I couldn't put it down and wanted to know what was going to happen next. There were some surprises and some things I predicted but overall I really enjoyed this series. I can't say a whole lot without spoiling the other two books but I will say that the story continues to follow Cass's discovery of who she is and where she comes from. She faces a lot of trials and tribulations on her journey... and there is still some inner monologue that annoyed me from time to time
stp_reads's review
5.0
What an emotional roller coaster this trilogy was!!!!
I couldn’t put words together when I finished it and now days later, I still have a hard time coming up with what to say!
The continuity of the books has been pretty good, picks up right where the other ended and I like that. With that said, we (yes, I’m including myself with the characters ) are still trying to cope. Cassandra has a harder time than most and gets pretty ugly to those around her. As I said from the previous book, I don’t like how Cass 2.0 is and was hoping for an upgrade. Her actions and words don’t match her thoughts tans that’s so frustrating.
Gideon!!!!!!
I couldn’t put words together when I finished it and now days later, I still have a hard time coming up with what to say!
The continuity of the books has been pretty good, picks up right where the other ended and I like that. With that said, we (yes, I’m including myself with the characters ) are still trying to cope. Cassandra has a harder time than most and gets pretty ugly to those around her. As I said from the previous book, I don’t like how Cass 2.0 is and was hoping for an upgrade. Her actions and words don’t match her thoughts tans that’s so frustrating.
Gideon!!!!!!
the_reading_devices's review
3.0
2.75
Thank you to NetGalley and Harper Collins One More Chapter for providing me with an e-arc of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Concluding the Once and Future Queen trilogy, comes Legend of the Lakes, a book I was eagerly awaiting after the great cliff-hanger that ended book two.
However, I was sadly disappointed to see pretty much all of my expectations let down, in a book that was, for the most part, just plain boring: events and days repeated themselves unchanging over and over with the occasional time jump to add at least a semblance of movement and a bit of spice in the main romantic relationship. One that, once again, sorely disappointed my expectation of a nice slow-burn hate-to-love, turning out to be one of those they-hate-each-other’s-guts-until-they-sleep-together, followed by the equally annoying they-wake-up-in-love-without-any-emotional-development-whatsoever.
In terms of worldbuilding, at least the question of the incompatibility between technology and magic was answered, but still it did sometimes feel a tad too convenient, while other elements of the history and lore were sometimes included in such a way, they almost looked like they were thrown in with the sole purpose of name dropping.
The last part was definitely the most exciting one, both in terms of story and characters, as betrayals followed secret plots and more truths were revealed… even though the final showdown was still not the best it could have been and was entirely predictable in my opinion.
Overall, I thought the series had a lot of potential and if I was happy to look over a few issues with the first book for the sake of its originality, I was sadly increasingly disappointed with the sequels, and I think maybe this could have worked better as a duology instead, and with a little more work on the intricacies of the world and relationships.
Thank you to NetGalley and Harper Collins One More Chapter for providing me with an e-arc of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Concluding the Once and Future Queen trilogy, comes Legend of the Lakes, a book I was eagerly awaiting after the great cliff-hanger that ended book two.
However, I was sadly disappointed to see pretty much all of my expectations let down, in a book that was, for the most part, just plain boring: events and days repeated themselves unchanging over and over with the occasional time jump to add at least a semblance of movement and a bit of spice in the main romantic relationship. One that, once again, sorely disappointed my expectation of a nice slow-burn hate-to-love, turning out to be one of those they-hate-each-other’s-guts-until-they-sleep-together, followed by the equally annoying they-wake-up-in-love-without-any-emotional-development-whatsoever.
In terms of worldbuilding, at least the question of the incompatibility between technology and magic was answered, but still it did sometimes feel a tad too convenient, while other elements of the history and lore were sometimes included in such a way, they almost looked like they were thrown in with the sole purpose of name dropping.
The last part was definitely the most exciting one, both in terms of story and characters, as betrayals followed secret plots and more truths were revealed… even though the final showdown was still not the best it could have been and was entirely predictable in my opinion.
Overall, I thought the series had a lot of potential and if I was happy to look over a few issues with the first book for the sake of its originality, I was sadly increasingly disappointed with the sequels, and I think maybe this could have worked better as a duology instead, and with a little more work on the intricacies of the world and relationships.