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tsmi11 's review for:
The Hundredth Queen
by Emily R. King
I don’t know why I read this book.
It started off interesting with a band of bad ass warrior sister monks and then it just went downhill.
Some of my smaller pet peeves include:
Kalinda never ate. Literally every time she’s at a meal in the palace (I swear EVERY time) she chooses not to eat. No wonder she is stick thin. She also should be dead? But it’s beyond stupid, she knows she will need to fight for her life in a tournament and she doesn’t eat? Does she want to die? And she never once trains! All these hardcore women warriors (and male soldiers!) and she doesn’t think to ask someone to help her train so she can hold her own?
It’s all so stupid. She is such a weak character and the religion they follow seems very cobbled together and all over the place. Apparently her love interest is very religious himself and knows that he 100% should not have anything to do with the viraji and yet he doesn’t even seem to care. Like he gives up years of religious belief for some girl he barely knows with hardly any noticeable guilt or emotional struggle?
And the part where the Rajah doesn’t even give a shit that this is potentially his own daughter he is marrying!? Gtfo that’s absurd. It’s also absurd that these women who grew up never having even seen a man can just go from isolation to orgies without massive depression or like suicide. I mean you’re gonna talk about how the Rajah likes his group sex and his prostitutes you could also cover some real emotions that these women might have. But apparently they all just go from badass warrior sisterhood women to desperate-to-please man worshipers overnight. Cool.
ALSO the rajah was waiting in the chapel when they all tried to escape because he knew it was the closest hidden tunnel - So he knew about the secret tunnels all along and didn't bother to post a guard at them all the time? Like wouldn't that be a number 1 priority to guard if you knew bhutas were trying to steal something of yours and had been sneaking around your palace?
I don’t know what led me to read this entire book but I should have oven up a lot earlier. It was poorly written and silly.
It started off interesting with a band of bad ass warrior sister monks and then it just went downhill.
Some of my smaller pet peeves include:
Kalinda never ate. Literally every time she’s at a meal in the palace (I swear EVERY time) she chooses not to eat. No wonder she is stick thin. She also should be dead? But it’s beyond stupid, she knows she will need to fight for her life in a tournament and she doesn’t eat? Does she want to die? And she never once trains! All these hardcore women warriors (and male soldiers!) and she doesn’t think to ask someone to help her train so she can hold her own?
It’s all so stupid. She is such a weak character and the religion they follow seems very cobbled together and all over the place. Apparently her love interest is very religious himself and knows that he 100% should not have anything to do with the viraji and yet he doesn’t even seem to care. Like he gives up years of religious belief for some girl he barely knows with hardly any noticeable guilt or emotional struggle?
ALSO the rajah was waiting in the chapel when they all tried to escape because he knew it was the closest hidden tunnel - So he knew about the secret tunnels all along and didn't bother to post a guard at them all the time? Like wouldn't that be a number 1 priority to guard if you knew bhutas were trying to steal something of yours and had been sneaking around your palace?
I don’t know what led me to read this entire book but I should have oven up a lot earlier. It was poorly written and silly.