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The Demon's Queen by Katee Robert
emotional
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
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This one was desperately close to perfection. The way my heart absolutely ached for both of the main characters was bittersweet in that lasting way that keeps a book in your mind for weeks. I thought the conflict they had to overcome was nuanced and offered no easy solutions which made the book hard to put down. I was rooting for them so hard but they both kept getting in their own ways. The toxic behaviors they fell into felt incredibly human. No one was making the right decisions and consequences appropriately came to bite them in the ass.
It was too short of a book though. Robert gave a masterclass in two people in love with a mountain of issues between them to work through right up until the end of the book. The problem is that we never saw them work through them. Or really got to see them simply in love. This book deserved another hundred pages. It’s like getting to the top of a mountain only to realize it’s too cloudy to see the view it affords. We didn’t even get an epilogue so the last page was especially abrupt.
With this being the last book in the series, I wanted this to tie everything together. I thought there’d be something at the end with everyone or like a skip in time to see how we’ll all the territories were flourishing. I was also looking forward to making sense of the scenes in past books with the second perspective added but instead it felt like they were a forced addition in a story that no longer held space for them. Eve’s interaction with Briar was especially handled poorly. Azazel was wildly out of character and Eve’s words from Briar’s book made no sense in the context of this story.
Despite all of that (including the fact that it doesn’t really feel like Eve and Azazel would end up together), I still loved this book. It’s probably their best book in the series writing-wise. I hope Robert revisits this ending some time in the future maybe if they do a compilation like Vampire Court.
This one was desperately close to perfection. The way my heart absolutely ached for both of the main characters was bittersweet in that lasting way that keeps a book in your mind for weeks. I thought the conflict they had to overcome was nuanced and offered no easy solutions which made the book hard to put down. I was rooting for them so hard but they both kept getting in their own ways. The toxic behaviors they fell into felt incredibly human. No one was making the right decisions and consequences appropriately came to bite them in the ass.
It was too short of a book though. Robert gave a masterclass in two people in love with a mountain of issues between them to work through right up until the end of the book. The problem is that we never saw them work through them. Or really got to see them simply in love. This book deserved another hundred pages. It’s like getting to the top of a mountain only to realize it’s too cloudy to see the view it affords. We didn’t even get an epilogue so the last page was especially abrupt.
With this being the last book in the series, I wanted this to tie everything together. I thought there’d be something at the end with everyone or like a skip in time to see how we’ll all the territories were flourishing. I was also looking forward to making sense of the scenes in past books with the second perspective added but instead it felt like they were a forced addition in a story that no longer held space for them. Eve’s interaction with Briar was especially handled poorly. Azazel was wildly out of character and Eve’s words from Briar’s book made no sense in the context of this story.
Despite all of that (including the fact that it doesn’t really feel like Eve and Azazel would end up together), I still loved this book. It’s probably their best book in the series writing-wise. I hope Robert revisits this ending some time in the future maybe if they do a compilation like Vampire Court.