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A review by pero_tefi
The Caged Queen by Kristen Ciccarelli
4.0
whoops, forgot to add this to the currently reading, welp. Don't read if you haven't read the first book
So, another four stars, remember how I said the first one felt like it was driven by a "destined to be" sort of trope? well this didn't have that. This time we are following Roa's pov, the new queen wife of Dax, Asha's brother who lead a revolt in the first book. Wait, is this spoilers? shit, maybe they are. okay I added a warning, so, we follow Roa, new queen, who has a desert hawk as a companion which we quickly realize is the soul of her dead sister trapped in the bird. Yeah, crazy shit either way, we follow her months after Asha's escape, and see just how Dax is supposedly reigning just to find that he isn't doing great (cough cough wink wink this is part of a scheme). Roa, seeing Dax is a fool, quickly finds reason to distrust him and joins a new revolt against the king so her people can be free, and, to save her sister's soul from becoming corrupt.
I will be honest, the first part of the book was annoying cause even in Asha's perspective thinking her brother wouldn't know how to rule I figured out very quickly that Roa's perceptions were so fucking wrong and that Dax would be more intelligent than he seemed and less of a flirt. Maybe it's because I read the Thief, which reminded me a lot of this book, and we follow a similar sort of narrative of the undI loved it. But the first part in which we have to follow these wrong perspectives of Dax and how Roa kept getting it all wrong was a bit annoying, more so cause it took more than half of the book and I wanted to get to the actual relationship between them growing and being built and it felt a bit rushed when it happened, or like, cut and pasted together weirdly. So yeah, another four stars but still loving this ride.
So, another four stars, remember how I said the first one felt like it was driven by a "destined to be" sort of trope? well this didn't have that. This time we are following Roa's pov, the new queen wife of Dax, Asha's brother who lead a revolt in the first book. Wait, is this spoilers? shit, maybe they are. okay I added a warning, so, we follow Roa, new queen, who has a desert hawk as a companion which we quickly realize is the soul of her dead sister trapped in the bird. Yeah, crazy shit either way, we follow her months after Asha's escape, and see just how Dax is supposedly reigning just to find that he isn't doing great (cough cough wink wink this is part of a scheme). Roa, seeing Dax is a fool, quickly finds reason to distrust him and joins a new revolt against the king so her people can be free, and, to save her sister's soul from becoming corrupt.
I will be honest, the first part of the book was annoying cause even in Asha's perspective thinking her brother wouldn't know how to rule I figured out very quickly that Roa's perceptions were so fucking wrong and that Dax would be more intelligent than he seemed and less of a flirt. Maybe it's because I read the Thief, which reminded me a lot of this book, and we follow a similar sort of narrative of the undI loved it. But the first part in which we have to follow these wrong perspectives of Dax and how Roa kept getting it all wrong was a bit annoying, more so cause it took more than half of the book and I wanted to get to the actual relationship between them growing and being built and it felt a bit rushed when it happened, or like, cut and pasted together weirdly. So yeah, another four stars but still loving this ride.