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A review by justagirlwithabook
The Lost Queen by Signe Pike
challenging
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Third time is a charm!
I started and stopped this book two different times (made it all the way to page 110 on the second try) but it just refused to stick. I’m chalking it down to the wrong time and the wrong mood, because picking it up the third time, right where I had left off months earlier, it was a different story! The pace began to pick up, a romantic entanglement introduced, and all of a sudden things were moving very quickly.
I loved the inquisitiveness of the author and her desire to explore (and to draw some strong conclusions about) the origins of “Merlin” and his sister, who in her own right was an incredibly powerful queen of Scotland whose story has been mostly lost to history.
This book has strong foundations in the historical fiction genre but also in the “legends and folktales” sort of categories where we have characters whose legends became greater than even they themselves. I love stories like this, that explore those origins or ask “what if we were to tell their story, their whole story?” I think this book seeks to answer some of that and I’m looking forward to grabbing the next in the series and to continue along on the journey!
I started and stopped this book two different times (made it all the way to page 110 on the second try) but it just refused to stick. I’m chalking it down to the wrong time and the wrong mood, because picking it up the third time, right where I had left off months earlier, it was a different story! The pace began to pick up, a romantic entanglement introduced, and all of a sudden things were moving very quickly.
I loved the inquisitiveness of the author and her desire to explore (and to draw some strong conclusions about) the origins of “Merlin” and his sister, who in her own right was an incredibly powerful queen of Scotland whose story has been mostly lost to history.
This book has strong foundations in the historical fiction genre but also in the “legends and folktales” sort of categories where we have characters whose legends became greater than even they themselves. I love stories like this, that explore those origins or ask “what if we were to tell their story, their whole story?” I think this book seeks to answer some of that and I’m looking forward to grabbing the next in the series and to continue along on the journey!