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The Frost Touched Queen
by Ivy Fox
I liked the writing style. It was simple but evocative and exuberant—perhaps a tad too exuberant at times. Easy to follow and get lost in but, admittedly, it was also littered with malapropisms and a considerable number of grammar mistakes. I also found some of the vernacular used to feel out of place given the medieval context, it was too modern and casual.
I'm a big fan of the RH/Why Choose trope, but The Frost Touched Queen was my first time coming across a novel where the approach taken was to develop the relationships between the main characters on a one-on-one basis.
Kat, our newly crowned Winter Queen, had been dealing with problems born out of the insubordination of the three other monarchs that ruled the lands off to the east, south, and west of her northern winter kingdom. Unsure how to solve the strife with these young kings who had, once upon a time, been good friends of hers during their childhoods, she came up with the idea to offer an alliance through marriage to all of three them and to travel and spend a month in each of their castles to try and win their allegiance back and see which of the Kings would ultimately make the best ally to cement her power as ruler of all the land.
In this first installment of The Winter Queen duet, Kat journeyed off to meet King Levi and King Teodoro, of the east and south respectively, where she spent time alone with them and each pair got reacquainted. Issues and miscommunications that had festered into hate and resentment were confronted. And the resolution of those conflicts and grudges opened the way for love to bloom anew.
While the decision to develop the relationships one at a time was unique and unexpected in the context of reverse harem, it also meant that towards the end of the book, I became a little bored since at any given point there was little going on aside from the love angle. I'm cool with slow burn, and I enjoy the build-up of sexual tension, but my attention starts wandering, eventually, when the narrative is too focused on the characters and little time is allocated to furthering the plot, and that was what ended up happening here, too. I had been promised lots of angst and feels, but rather received grief and tantrums instead.
Luckily, the very last chapter from the POV of the Western king, Atlas, managed to grab my interest right back. Out of the three kings, he was the one I was the most curious about since, based on the flashbacks interspersed throughout the story to enrich the background and provide context, he seemed to be the one that had changed the most.
I liked the book well enough and am glad I took a chance on it during one of this year's Stuff Your Kindle events. I'll be continuing the series to find out how the reunion between Kat and Atlas will play out, and how all these proud, possessive men will deal with having to share the woman they all love.
I'm a big fan of the RH/Why Choose trope, but The Frost Touched Queen was my first time coming across a novel where the approach taken was to develop the relationships between the main characters on a one-on-one basis.
Kat, our newly crowned Winter Queen, had been dealing with problems born out of the insubordination of the three other monarchs that ruled the lands off to the east, south, and west of her northern winter kingdom. Unsure how to solve the strife with these young kings who had, once upon a time, been good friends of hers during their childhoods, she came up with the idea to offer an alliance through marriage to all of three them and to travel and spend a month in each of their castles to try and win their allegiance back and see which of the Kings would ultimately make the best ally to cement her power as ruler of all the land.
In this first installment of The Winter Queen duet, Kat journeyed off to meet King Levi and King Teodoro, of the east and south respectively, where she spent time alone with them and each pair got reacquainted. Issues and miscommunications that had festered into hate and resentment were confronted. And the resolution of those conflicts and grudges opened the way for love to bloom anew.
While the decision to develop the relationships one at a time was unique and unexpected in the context of reverse harem, it also meant that towards the end of the book, I became a little bored since at any given point there was little going on aside from the love angle. I'm cool with slow burn, and I enjoy the build-up of sexual tension, but my attention starts wandering, eventually, when the narrative is too focused on the characters and little time is allocated to furthering the plot, and that was what ended up happening here, too. I had been promised lots of angst and feels, but rather received grief and tantrums instead.
Luckily, the very last chapter from the POV of the Western king, Atlas, managed to grab my interest right back. Out of the three kings, he was the one I was the most curious about since, based on the flashbacks interspersed throughout the story to enrich the background and provide context, he seemed to be the one that had changed the most.
I liked the book well enough and am glad I took a chance on it during one of this year's Stuff Your Kindle events. I'll be continuing the series to find out how the reunion between Kat and Atlas will play out, and how all these proud, possessive men will deal with having to share the woman they all love.