A review by eastwooddoll
Queen's Shadow by E.K. Johnston

5.0

“we are brave, your highness.”

the queen’s trilogy owns my heart and soul. padmé is one of my favorite characters, and she is completely fucked over in the films. these books treat her with the dignity and respect she deserved.

she is such a wonderful character. reading these books…it’s impossible to accept that she “lost her will to live.” no. do you think padmé naberrie amidala would give up on her children, on her *future*, just because some little bitch (i say that with all the love in my heart) betrayed her? absolutely not. the only way i could ever see her dying is if his physical assault of her + the stress of the situation caused her to go into early labor, leading to her death. maybe her heart was strained too or something, i don’t know.

my goodness, dude. the handmaidens are the loveliest women of all time. i cannot express to you how much i love them all!!! and oh my god, no way… at the center of this entire trilogy is padmé’s intense-homoerotic-friendship first wlw heartbreak. all the intimate scenes between her and sabé remind me so much of my own experiences