Reviews - The Scorpion Queen

156 reviews for:

The Scorpion Queen

Mina Fears

3.36 AVERAGE

nklosty's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous

shelves_by_sim's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful 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: Complicated

Firstly, this cover is absolutely breathtaking. I am so obsessed with the gorgeous picture, the scorpion cutout, the beautiful and bright pinks and purples used and the black border surrounding it - so stunning. This is a debut book and it was so absolutely amazing I am struggling to find the words for it. The Timbaktu setting, the Islamic culture set in such a vast and new fantasy world was pulled off so well.

I absolutely adored this author's writing, it was poised and elegant and so captivating. The story itself was so good, there were definitely some dark fantasy elements to this world, the deathly trials held for the princess's hand, the way the nobles treated people, the journey to find Hausakoy and everything that was experienced afterwards. I loved Amie, we get introduced to her in the beginning of the book after something tragic has befallen her and I loved how, through it all, we got to see her grow and change and forgive and fight.

I really loved Kader, I loved the future Amie and him were working towards. I loved the how the fraught bond between Jeneba, Penda and Amie grew into a friendship with so much meaning. This story definitely hit me with a plot twist I would not have seen coming, even though I did think a certain character gave me "don't trust them" vibes and honestly, it just kept shocking me from there on. I do wish that there was a little more on the magic in this story, if felt kind of glossed over, but either way, I truly enjoyed this book so much.

lexxzzi's review against another edition

Unfortunately the autour did too good a job at making the narrator a believable teenage girl. I became too annoyed at the narrator's childish behavior

patienceisreading's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous medium-paced

kyproff's review against another edition

Nothing was happening

breanna_leb's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

clairecreativecorner101's review against another edition

3.0

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for granting me an arc of this book. Unfortunately this was not a complete win for me. So the positives I did enjoy the culture and the vibes it gave of Aladdin mixed with the hunger games so that was something a little bit different and I didn’t mind the writing style it was easy to read. However the plot for me did feel a little bit flat for me and the characters for me didn’t really stand out so couldn’t really root for any of the characters. I would try something else form the author but this one didn’t really work for me which is a shame. 3 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️