A review by the_jesus_fandom
Crimson Queen by E.A. Winters

adventurous funny

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

 Once again, there are fun/cute moments that I actually enjoyed reading. And the plot is exciting with plenty of big battles, chases, dragon riding, etc.
 
 However. 

I cannot stand this main character anymore. First of all, we get it. You like trousers. Stop going on and on about it. She's still very insecure (why does the love interest even like her???) but then she criticizes another girl for letting her insecurity get in the way of completing an important mission: 

Couldn't she have waited to be insecure about all this until after they made it to Frigibar's alive?

 
Gee, Semra, sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Especially since she’s

the one who is way too insecure to realise that the prophecy (yeah there’s one of those) is about her

.
 
 The author consistently misspells "poring over something" as "pouring over something" and it drives me crazy. There’s more instances of banter in the middle of situations where you cannot realistically say all that in the short amount of time they have. There’s a lot of exposition, except where it would have been useful (when characters we had only met once or twice 100s of pages ago came back).