A review by whimsicalmeerkat
The Heretic Royal by G.A. Aiken

2.0

The only reason this is getting two stars instead of one is that I loved Ainsley and Gruff. Unfortunately, they didn’t get nearly enough screen time. There was far too much time spent setting up future books and not enough on anything happening in the actual book. I went from feeling pretty mediocre about Gemma to actually hating her. I honestly can’t tell if having read all of Dragon Kin was a good thing or not, in the sense that I can’t tell what it would be like for someone coming in having only read this series.

Oh yeah, I still don’t understand why the series is named after Caid & Quinn’s clan, when the Farmerson-Smythe family is obviously at the center. Did I just sound cool to her? Did she intend on it being more focused on the centaurs? Do I care enough to keep trying to figure it out? Not really.

I’m so glad I didn’t stay up late to finish this last night. Such a disappointment.