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Queen Among the Dead by Lesley Livingston
5.0
Rating: 4/5
I received an eARC for my honest opinion.
This wasn’t an instant love for me, I really liked the book, but I didn’t love it. I don’t know exactly why I didn’t like it because this book has enemies to lovers, action, drama, and magic and that is everything love in books. Now with all that being said I do hope that there is a second book because I would like to see where this book will go.
The world building was amazing, from the details that the author described to help you picture the scenes that are playing out, to the introductions to the characters, from the action and drama/heartbreaking scenes. This author really knows how to pull you into a world and keep you wanting to know what else is going to happen.
The pace of the book was a little slow at first, every book gives you details to the world and characters, but I felt at times throughout the book it would slow back down for no reason. Then there were times that I couldn’t put the book down with everything going on with the characters, I just had to know what else would pop up. I thought the character development was done well, we get to see a young Neve and Ronan and then years later they’re thrown back together… Dare I say fate kept those two coming back together even though the both of them would fight it as much as possible. I loved that we get to see those 2 strong headed individuals grow and learn from their mistakes and become some amazing characters. The side characters even had some growth with them. I really like Ronan the most, from his sarcastic side to his sweet/caring side. I loved that once he got something stuck in his mind he would follow through until either he would see that path wouldn’t work or he would figure it out the hard way. Neve, I loved her spitfire personality and how determined she was even though people would tell her she was too young or didn’t know better or even that she would be the death of them all. She still followed her heart and did what she knew would be the best.
Anyone who knows me, knows I love mythology/folklore of any kind and I really love Celtic mythology so much. Livingston did a beautiful job on this Celtic fantasy book; she brought this magical world of lore to the YA readers.
I want to thank NetGalley and Zando Projects for allowing me the opportunity to review this book.
I received an eARC for my honest opinion.
This wasn’t an instant love for me, I really liked the book, but I didn’t love it. I don’t know exactly why I didn’t like it because this book has enemies to lovers, action, drama, and magic and that is everything love in books. Now with all that being said I do hope that there is a second book because I would like to see where this book will go.
The world building was amazing, from the details that the author described to help you picture the scenes that are playing out, to the introductions to the characters, from the action and drama/heartbreaking scenes. This author really knows how to pull you into a world and keep you wanting to know what else is going to happen.
The pace of the book was a little slow at first, every book gives you details to the world and characters, but I felt at times throughout the book it would slow back down for no reason. Then there were times that I couldn’t put the book down with everything going on with the characters, I just had to know what else would pop up. I thought the character development was done well, we get to see a young Neve and Ronan and then years later they’re thrown back together… Dare I say fate kept those two coming back together even though the both of them would fight it as much as possible. I loved that we get to see those 2 strong headed individuals grow and learn from their mistakes and become some amazing characters. The side characters even had some growth with them. I really like Ronan the most, from his sarcastic side to his sweet/caring side. I loved that once he got something stuck in his mind he would follow through until either he would see that path wouldn’t work or he would figure it out the hard way. Neve, I loved her spitfire personality and how determined she was even though people would tell her she was too young or didn’t know better or even that she would be the death of them all. She still followed her heart and did what she knew would be the best.
Anyone who knows me, knows I love mythology/folklore of any kind and I really love Celtic mythology so much. Livingston did a beautiful job on this Celtic fantasy book; she brought this magical world of lore to the YA readers.
I want to thank NetGalley and Zando Projects for allowing me the opportunity to review this book.