A review by daja
Queen of the Conquered by Kacen Callender

Did not finish book. Stopped at 8%.

i cannot stand the main character and her perspective. Am I supposed to feel bad for her that she was born free and doesn't have to be a slave? Am I supposed to feel bad that she is complicit in the brutal acts against the islanders, her own people? Am I supposed to feel bad that she doesn't feel deserving of love and forces her own slave to be intimate with her? I HATE her. And she's consistently having a pity party about her life and I'm just so done. I'm not even going to make myself push through this.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Classism, Rape, Toxic relationship, Slavery, Child death, Colonisation, Violence, Grief, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Racism