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Rise of a Queen by Rina Kent

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feydarling's review

5.0
adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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cielosiluminado's review

4.0
dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

the girlies who get jonathanaurora, get it.

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shaykay's review

3.5
dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This one just took me forever to read. I'm unsure if it was where I was getting ready to go on vacation, struggled to get interested in the first book of the duology, or just this book in general. Still, it just took me forever to read it. I really wanted more from the story, especially after the build-up that the first book started. But I think it just fell flat for me. It was really steamy, and I believe the steam took over the book to the point where the ending revealed and wrapped up everything too fast. I wish we had focused more on what was happening than Aurora and Jonathon. Plus, this one also fell into the miscommunication trope, and that's just one that tends to drive me bananas rather than actually work for me lately.


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⁎ ★° ⁀ 3 steamy 
“There’s a pre-Jonathan era and post-Jonathan era, and I don’t want to admit how fulfilling the second one is.”
 
In this book we follow Jonathan King and Aurora Harper, and how they navigate a ”relationship”, but also the aftermath of Aurora’s father coming back into the picture. I really liked Harris in this book, I find him so funny, and I would have liked more scenes with Aurora and Harris together. I also loved how Aurora helped Jonathan’s relationship with Aiden, Levi and Ethan - or at least work on them. What I missed in this book was communication, and while both the characters explained why they liked each other so much, I’m not sure how much I believed in it. It felt so much like an infatuation, more from Auroras than Jonathan. Jonathan explained the difference between Aurora and Alicia, why he really felt that Aurora was a good match for him. But I don’t know, it felt that Aurora just liked Jonathan because he helped her understand her worth and live with her fear. That is good, but for as strong as Aurora is, I don’t think it was showed as much in this book. 
 
<b>Tropes:</b> 
  • Age gap (17)
  • Wife’s little sister
  • Widow
  • Toxic relationship
  • Existing relationship

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jittersparks's review

3.75
dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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