A review by thattheatrekid
Majesty by Katharine McGee

emotional lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I liked this book but not enough to give it 4 stars.

Pros: 

• I loved seeing more of Beatrice and her being fleshed out
• Great plot in that people were falling for different people than they were before, and old romances also resurfaced 
• Everything was painted as real life, even in casual wording of sentences, and didn’t feel too bookishly perfect 
• I loved Daphnes character journey

Cons:

• Several sentences were way too dramatic or corny for the situation or age of the person saying them and made me physically cringe 
• The male characters were not fleshed out at all, like I still don’t understand what makes Jeff so great and he was barely in the book
• Nina also felt quite underdeveloped 
• Sometimes the emotional timeline seemed to move unrealistically fast
• The themes of feminism and modern “antiracism” were not subtle or presented tastefully; they just made me roll my eyes because they are thrown brashly in the face of the reader
• The girls never ever talk about anything other than the royal system or more often, boys. I really wish they were given more conversations with no mention of romance drama, just because it would flesh them out more. Also having them only talk about boys for the entirety of the book up to the end kind of undermines the theme of feminism the author is attempting

Solid sequel and I’ll finish the series, but the first one was definitely better.

Update: so I just went back and read my review for the first one and it basically says all of these things as well. In other words, the author needs to flesh out the males and stop trying to present feminism if the book isn’t feminist.