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indigo_han 's review for:
The Queen's Resistance
by Rebecca Ross
Arc received in exchange for honest review
Rebecca Ross’s Queen’s Rising was a complete and total five star read for me. I loved it just as much in a second read through. This one is a 4.5/5. Not because it wasn’t brilliant, just because I had a little trouble adjusting to the dual pov’s. I kept getting a page or two in, and then realising that I was reading in the wrong characters voice. For this reason ALONE it’s not a 5.
Opening with a quick catch up and a bunch of exposition (which tbh, I wish could be more like Jay Kristoff or Amie Kaufman do with their “here’s what happened previously”) the action quickly clicks in. Literally starting from the final chapter of Rising, the reader is thrown into the morally grey miasma of what happens AFTER you win the grand battle.
And I LOVE it. There is not a happy ending. There are a lot of hard decisions to make, a lot of compromises, alliances, secrets, and traumas that have gone in for generations. The new Queen, and her inner circle are no longer the rebels, they are the ones trying to hold together a fractured people, and find a new way of living together. However, they also have to deal with the people’s need to see justice and retribution for the horrors they have suffered.
And are still suffering. The characters still have a lot to go through. They have enemies to defeat, they have their own inner turmoil. Many of the main characters share bloodlines with the perpetrators of horrific deeds.
However. You don’t choose your blood, you choose your family. You don’t choose your past, you choose your future
Rebecca Ross’s Queen’s Rising was a complete and total five star read for me. I loved it just as much in a second read through. This one is a 4.5/5. Not because it wasn’t brilliant, just because I had a little trouble adjusting to the dual pov’s. I kept getting a page or two in, and then realising that I was reading in the wrong characters voice. For this reason ALONE it’s not a 5.
Opening with a quick catch up and a bunch of exposition (which tbh, I wish could be more like Jay Kristoff or Amie Kaufman do with their “here’s what happened previously”) the action quickly clicks in. Literally starting from the final chapter of Rising, the reader is thrown into the morally grey miasma of what happens AFTER you win the grand battle.
And I LOVE it. There is not a happy ending. There are a lot of hard decisions to make, a lot of compromises, alliances, secrets, and traumas that have gone in for generations. The new Queen, and her inner circle are no longer the rebels, they are the ones trying to hold together a fractured people, and find a new way of living together. However, they also have to deal with the people’s need to see justice and retribution for the horrors they have suffered.
And are still suffering. The characters still have a lot to go through. They have enemies to defeat, they have their own inner turmoil. Many of the main characters share bloodlines with the perpetrators of horrific deeds.
However. You don’t choose your blood, you choose your family. You don’t choose your past, you choose your future