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Four Dead Queens
by Astrid Scholte
2.1 ⭐️
Yeah…that’s a no from me.
I love murder mysteries.
But I don’t love it when
It was like being yanked along while nothing and everything happens and I didn’t appreciate the feeling. In a way it reminded me of [b:Daughter of the Burning City|30237061|Daughter of the Burning City|Amanda Foody|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1487367685l/30237061._SY75_.jpg|50699014], it tried to be something but the execution didn’t quite make it there. It just failed to make me care, not for Keralie, not for her sexyman boyfriend, not even for who the murderer was.
I really wish it would have focused on the queens and their secrets and intrigues, because that part was genuinely interesting, but I suppose every YA book needs its obligatory spunky heroine with a tortured past and guy she can get the hots for.
Speaking of YA, if you like one or all of these tropes I think you might like this book:
Heroine you can project yourself on ✅
Hotman material who likes the main girl and sees past her not-terrible terribleness ✅
Queen(s) ✅
A governmental system so fragile and nonsensical it would fall apart if a leaf landed on it ✅
Factions that aren’t allowed to mingle ✅
Presumably thousands of people in a faction sharing a single personality trait ✅
Henchmen ✅
Honestly though, the book is not bad. It just…falls flat.
In conclusion: the world was weird and I was bored.
Yeah…that’s a no from me.
I love murder mysteries.
But I don’t love it when
Spoiler
my murder mysteries tell me who died and how they died and in which order they died, TWICE, and then tells me none of that has actually happened yet after 200 pages and THEN it actually happens for real this time.It was like being yanked along while nothing and everything happens and I didn’t appreciate the feeling. In a way it reminded me of [b:Daughter of the Burning City|30237061|Daughter of the Burning City|Amanda Foody|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1487367685l/30237061._SY75_.jpg|50699014], it tried to be something but the execution didn’t quite make it there. It just failed to make me care, not for Keralie, not for her sexyman boyfriend, not even for who the murderer was.
I really wish it would have focused on the queens and their secrets and intrigues, because that part was genuinely interesting, but I suppose every YA book needs its obligatory spunky heroine with a tortured past and guy she can get the hots for.
Speaking of YA, if you like one or all of these tropes I think you might like this book:
Heroine you can project yourself on ✅
Hotman material who likes the main girl and sees past her not-terrible terribleness ✅
Queen(s) ✅
A governmental system so fragile and nonsensical it would fall apart if a leaf landed on it ✅
Factions that aren’t allowed to mingle ✅
Presumably thousands of people in a faction sharing a single personality trait ✅
Henchmen ✅
Honestly though, the book is not bad. It just…falls flat.
In conclusion: the world was weird and I was bored.