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A review by mlaura
The War of Two Queens by Jennifer L. Armentrout
2.0
The most fantastical thing about this fantasy novel is the size of Poppy's stupidity.
What's the point of making a super-powerful character if they're gonna be super-dumb?
I have to give you this: the story in this book had a big improvement in comparison to the last two. Although I have great character-related complaints, the story was good, with not nearly as much unnecessary content as the last one.
Unfortunately, the characters seemed to "under-develop" and lose most of their personality traits to just some sort of weird adoration of Poppy - which COULD be justified, since she's a goddess, if she was able to actually do anything other than whine about missing Cas and being the Harbinger of Death and Destruction. Poppy has the worst fucking timing I have ever seen, she never gets angry at the right time or for the right thing. And, as Reaver is right to point out all the time (a good character, if a little cliche), she is straight out DUMB. She doesn't seem to catch on to any of the logical and clear things that people tell her - and not only Poppy, but also the hundreds of years old characters that accompany her. She's the queen of making bad decisions, which would be understandable for her age, but the author made her be way too special to grant her the 'age excuse'. If one thing made sense was her constantly being beaten by her hundreds yo mother, from which she didn't seem to get the genes for a brain.
AND DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON CASTEEL. This man was once a smart, violent, seductive and reckless bad boy, and now his only personality trait is being Poppy's heartmate. Always. And forever. Seriously, this was driving me insane. Please author, never again narrate things from his POV because his "devotion" was too much for me to take in. I can only hope she won't do the same to Kieran.
I'm not even gonna get into the forced feminism subject - all this thing with Casteel's puppy-like personality, Poppy's refusal to wear "feminine-like" clothes and brush her hair (and her mother's vanity as a bad trait), and all the other little things that the author tries to make out as feminism but that actually come off as an anti-feminine behavior.
The only thing giving me the strength to continue now is the possibility of a trouple and the hope for a smarter Poppy that uses her full power.
What's the point of making a super-powerful character if they're gonna be super-dumb?
I have to give you this: the story in this book had a big improvement in comparison to the last two. Although I have great character-related complaints, the story was good, with not nearly as much unnecessary content as the last one.
Unfortunately, the characters seemed to "under-develop" and lose most of their personality traits to just some sort of weird adoration of Poppy - which COULD be justified, since she's a goddess, if she was able to actually do anything other than whine about missing Cas and being the Harbinger of Death and Destruction. Poppy has the worst fucking timing I have ever seen, she never gets angry at the right time or for the right thing. And, as Reaver is right to point out all the time (a good character, if a little cliche), she is straight out DUMB. She doesn't seem to catch on to any of the logical and clear things that people tell her - and not only Poppy, but also the hundreds of years old characters that accompany her. She's the queen of making bad decisions, which would be understandable for her age, but the author made her be way too special to grant her the 'age excuse'. If one thing made sense was her constantly being beaten by her hundreds yo mother, from which she didn't seem to get the genes for a brain.
AND DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON CASTEEL. This man was once a smart, violent, seductive and reckless bad boy, and now his only personality trait is being Poppy's heartmate. Always. And forever. Seriously, this was driving me insane. Please author, never again narrate things from his POV because his "devotion" was too much for me to take in. I can only hope she won't do the same to Kieran.
I'm not even gonna get into the forced feminism subject - all this thing with Casteel's puppy-like personality, Poppy's refusal to wear "feminine-like" clothes and brush her hair (and her mother's vanity as a bad trait), and all the other little things that the author tries to make out as feminism but that actually come off as an anti-feminine behavior.
The only thing giving me the strength to continue now is the possibility of a trouple and the hope for a smarter Poppy that uses her full power.