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The Lost Queen
by Aimee Phan
Thanks to NetGalley & PENGUIN GROUP Penguin Young Readers Group for the early copy in exchange for an honest review.
This book was pretty trippy, to be honest. It was entertaining enough but...just very confusing. The beginning works fine but once it hits the middle, the author throws a ton of complicated fantastical plotlines and character stuff that it started to lose me. It focuses on worldbuilding...but more fantasy worldbuilding rather than real-world stuff, even though the book is mostly set in the real world.
The school is the big setting but it starts melting away into obscurity as the more fantastical stuff happens and I'm just left wondering what's happening in the real world as all the weird fantasy stuff occurs. I couldn't turn my brain off to stop thinking about these characters (especially her grandparents) since they were already established in the real-world setting.
I also thought the protagonist was especially dumb for not seeing the lying characters a mile away. She's not very smart and I got frustrated at her often throughout the book.
This book was pretty trippy, to be honest. It was entertaining enough but...just very confusing. The beginning works fine but once it hits the middle, the author throws a ton of complicated fantastical plotlines and character stuff that it started to lose me. It focuses on worldbuilding...but more fantasy worldbuilding rather than real-world stuff, even though the book is mostly set in the real world.
The school is the big setting but it starts melting away into obscurity as the more fantastical stuff happens and I'm just left wondering what's happening in the real world as all the weird fantasy stuff occurs. I couldn't turn my brain off to stop thinking about these characters (especially her grandparents) since they were already established in the real-world setting.
I also thought the protagonist was especially dumb for not seeing the lying characters a mile away. She's not very smart and I got frustrated at her often throughout the book.