A review by samellecooke
The Traitor Queen by Danielle L. Jensen

adventurous medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

Where it seems like most people preferred this book to The Bridge Kingdom, I preferred book one. This book just didn't land for me. It was good, but not great. The flow was choppy to me and got worse as the book progressed. I read one review that said they felt the beginning was rushed. In a strange way for me the entire book was equal parts rushed and equal parts painstakingly slow. 

The will they, won't they of Lara and Aren became too repetitive for me. Just make up your mind already. This approach could work, but in this case I didn't feel like it was executed well enough to be pulled off. The ending is what really did me in, however, resulting in the low star rating. The sharks essentially "choosing" Lara's fate was silly to me. Killing her off at the last minute to only resuscitate her the next moment and then have the book end 2 minutes later was annoying and reader's emotional bandwidth.


I was looking forward to reading the remaining two books in the series, but now am not so sure. 
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