Reviews with content warning for Violence - American Queen

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American Queen by Sierra Simone

16 reviews

mrsdarcylynn's review against another edition

3.0

dark fast-paced

A pretty strong 3 stars, I have to say.

First, this book is basically one sex scene after another. However, even with that writing choice, there is a surprising amount of straight up plot.

Second, most of the plot was unnecessary. The Eastern European war front worked for me as a political tension (not really a stretch to think there might be tensions near Poland/Ukraine) and I like that we weren’t relying on the Iraq/Afghanistan wars for our soldiers. However,

I think the author takes it too far when she has a diplomat from a hostile nation sexually assaulting our heroine. And then the heroine and VP have a long talk about their sexual pent up feelings and compare that experience to the one proceeding it? The only plus side, and I think the only reason it was included, was to point out the difference between consensual control and non-consensual control. I don’t think any of the readers were confused about this, an unnecessary scene.

There was also a lot of plot around the President, VP, and the VPs step sister mid-book that was unnecessary.

Honestly, this whole confusing bit that feels way out of scope for the book, is why in rating it so low. I think we could have skipped this whole “dark past” bit and really just used the one secret- that VP/Prez used to bone and that would have been enough. We didn’t need this whole mess too.

I totally missed the Camelot parallels until after I finished the book- so I can’t comment on how obnoxious or good that part was.

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abbs15norm's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional fast-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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karambit's review against another edition

1.75

fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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ayoaash34's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring mysterious fast-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

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wts_tiffany's review against another edition

5.0

emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

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procrastinatewithreading's review against another edition

4.75

emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

First of all, this is not my kink. There are a lot of CW but mostly this is a book about a consensual BDSM between consenting adults. The story, however, starts with an underage female and an adult male. I was troubled by parts of this book: the obsessive relationship between MCs, the initial age gap, the sexual leap in the final scenes. The things I did like about this book: learning about the BDSM relationship, the intensity that remained consistent throughout the story, the politics occurring, the retelling of King Arthur/Guinevere/Lancelot. Definitely a 4.75 star book for me.

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