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The Exiled Queen
by Cinda Williams Chima
I think you need to have a certain taste for Chima’s novels to be able to get through them. I like them but I can see how someone would give up on reading them. As you may recall both our protagonist’s Han and Raisa were headed off to Oden’s Ford at the end of The Demon King. They don’t get there until around page 200 and they don’t run into each other until page 400; this book is 586 pages.
The first 200 pages are about each of their journey’s to Oden’s Ford (it’s far away, that’s why it takes so many pages). As expected both run into a little bit of trouble but manage to worm their way to safety. I had thought this book would focus more on Raisa but it seemed like there were more Han chapters, I didn’t count so this is speculation. Han’s chapters are more entertaining for me and I enjoy them much more then the Raisa chapters. Raisa is just kind of boring as a character which is a shame because she had a lot of potential. She’s just overly perfect in terms of talking herself out of or into situations. She doesn’t seem to really do wrong or have bad qualities. She’s just stale. She’s made interesting by her love interests, all of them forbidden.
Han struggles with a lot in this book. He has to juggle many different allies whom may be enemies in disguise. He doesn’t really trust anyone but Fire Dancer, it’s hard to make friends when you aren’t a blueblood wizard after all. I find very interesting how well Fire Dancer does while at the academy. He seemed like a little bit of a hothead in The Demon King, but despite countless insults he never reacts it was strange. All in all I’d give this book three out of five stars.
The first 200 pages are about each of their journey’s to Oden’s Ford (it’s far away, that’s why it takes so many pages). As expected both run into a little bit of trouble but manage to worm their way to safety. I had thought this book would focus more on Raisa but it seemed like there were more Han chapters, I didn’t count so this is speculation. Han’s chapters are more entertaining for me and I enjoy them much more then the Raisa chapters. Raisa is just kind of boring as a character which is a shame because she had a lot of potential. She’s just overly perfect in terms of talking herself out of or into situations. She doesn’t seem to really do wrong or have bad qualities. She’s just stale. She’s made interesting by her love interests, all of them forbidden.
Han struggles with a lot in this book. He has to juggle many different allies whom may be enemies in disguise. He doesn’t really trust anyone but Fire Dancer, it’s hard to make friends when you aren’t a blueblood wizard after all. I find very interesting how well Fire Dancer does while at the academy. He seemed like a little bit of a hothead in The Demon King, but despite countless insults he never reacts it was strange. All in all I’d give this book three out of five stars.