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The Queen's Resistance
by Rebecca Ross
I finally got around to wrapping up The Queen’s Rising duology. I’m so glad I got around to these books so quickly. I enjoyed reading both of them so much. There’s so much world building and found families in these books. I also really loved the setting so much.
I absolutely love the world in these books and the setting is just part of it. I think Maevana is probably my favorite fictional world outside of Harry Potter. There’s such depth to their history and it all feels so real. Each house has their own history and their own culture that fits into the country of Maevana. I’m glad we got to explore it all. I also love the characters in this book. Specifically the female characters. They’re real and they struggle, but they’re also fierce warriors. I absolutely loved the scene where Brienna is injured and she struggles so much to make it out alive. Because it’s real and she’s not just powering through the way most action sequences happen in books. I would kill for Ewan or Keela so jot that down. And I really enjoy the friendship Brienna finds with Isolde.
I would say that my chief complaint is that there wasn’t enough. I think this could have easily been a five book or more series that starts with the original resistance and goes from there up until when this book ends. It does have a lot of depth and world building but there could have been so much more. I also feel like we could have had a greater bond with the characters if we had some fluff or filler in between all of the heavy stuff to make us love them more. It also would have paid off more with the twist at the end of this one. I could easily have read 500 pages per book for 5 books and been perfectly content.
Despite this book being nearly 500 pages long, it didn’t take a lot of reading time to finish this one. The plot really pushed the story forward and I enjoyed it so much. I can’t wait to see what this author publishes next.
I absolutely love the world in these books and the setting is just part of it. I think Maevana is probably my favorite fictional world outside of Harry Potter. There’s such depth to their history and it all feels so real. Each house has their own history and their own culture that fits into the country of Maevana. I’m glad we got to explore it all. I also love the characters in this book. Specifically the female characters. They’re real and they struggle, but they’re also fierce warriors. I absolutely loved the scene where Brienna is injured and she struggles so much to make it out alive. Because it’s real and she’s not just powering through the way most action sequences happen in books. I would kill for Ewan or Keela so jot that down. And I really enjoy the friendship Brienna finds with Isolde.
I would say that my chief complaint is that there wasn’t enough. I think this could have easily been a five book or more series that starts with the original resistance and goes from there up until when this book ends. It does have a lot of depth and world building but there could have been so much more. I also feel like we could have had a greater bond with the characters if we had some fluff or filler in between all of the heavy stuff to make us love them more. It also would have paid off more with the twist at the end of this one. I could easily have read 500 pages per book for 5 books and been perfectly content.
Despite this book being nearly 500 pages long, it didn’t take a lot of reading time to finish this one. The plot really pushed the story forward and I enjoyed it so much. I can’t wait to see what this author publishes next.