msdess 's review for:

A Queen This Fierce and Deadly by Stacia Stark

3.0

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My Rating: 2.75⭐⭐(rounded up for GR)
Series Rating: 3.75 ⭐⭐⭐

We Have
✅ MF Romance
✅ He Falls First
✅ Possessive
✅ Fae/Witches
✅ Fantasy
✅ Found Family
✅ Fated Mates

Big... long... sigh....

So we've made it to the end—and what an end it is. I ate every single book in this series up until this book. I struggled—I struggled so much with this finale. I enjoyed this series more than a lot of other fantasies I've read—honestly, more than ACOTAR, and it's close to Crescent City for me (I'll never give up Ruhn... ). I don't get feels from books often. I cried real tears.. like dropped real tears reading Crescent City - and the last time I cried before that was when Dobby died lol. So I don't get attached to characters when shit happens. I dropped a tear or two for Cavis man. OMG that got me. and I sat there with my mouth gaped wide open at the end of book 3. I picked this one up immediately. I'm explaining all of this to say I did fall in love with this series. And I hate it buuuttt.....

This one fell flat for me. UGH. I really hate to say it. Pris spent entirely too much time overthinking things in this book. I mean we have 8 whole pages of her sneaking up on a guard so she could kill him before he assaulted and killed a woman in front of kids. aaaaaaand Pris sat there contemplating how she was going to do everything and if the kids saw the effect it would have and everything else she needed to contemplate BEFORE taking action. Of course the lady died and the kids saw it all and they're now traumatized.

There were soooo many of these instances. I felt like a shit ton was drawn out for no reason. We got to learn more about Medinia (sp?) only for her to take off? I mean will she have a spin off? Same with Demos and Sin - if we're not going to finish all of their stories WHY start them and make them SOOOO big to this book? I felt so unsatisfied at the end of this. Now, IF by some chance other books come out with these characters, will I read them.... absolutely... but did we need it for this book? Absolutely not. The world was already built, the plot was already twisting, and the characters were already developed. The extra, in my opinion, made this last book unnecessarily long.

Now that I've gotten that out, let me say I had more fucking feels in this book than I want to admit. This chic was like, yea, NO ONE is safe, and do NOT get attached cause FU and your feelings. So many deaths took. me. OUTTT. I was not expecting them. The last 100 pages or so were fantastic. Pulling everything together and having people sacrifice and all the stuff that went down... whew.... I needed a drink when this ended. I spent a lot of time angry at Pris. She was stronger than she was written here, and I just felt like her character didn't do what I feel like she could have done- does that make sense?

While this wasn't as satisfying as I would have liked it to have been, it was still a conclusion. There weren't any overt plot holes, aside from wanting to know why characters did what they did and where they were going. I'm not going to bash the series. I have no regrets. I think based on the other three books, this one didn't measure up. I'm still not mad at it though.