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tinyowl 's review for:
The True Queen
by Zen Cho
The True Queen is a sequel to Cho’s Sorcerer to the Crown but different in about three ways: 1) Muna is our main POV character, with numerous other shifts throughout the book whereas Zacharias and Prunella made the bulk of the focus in SttC; 2) Cho put down the thesaurus here so I don’t have to reach for the dictionary as much or at all; 3) an exponential increase in monster loving that the audience (read: me) appreciate.
Muna is a very sweet character and she contrasts very nicely with her sister, Sakti, who is much more abrasive comparatively, but their dedication and love for each other still comes across the page.
Muna and Henrietta’s romance is very cute and I did awww at a lot of their moments. While their romance has the same level of focus as Zacharias’ and Prunella’s from Sorcerer to the Crown, a bit of it is undercut due to Henrietta not really being a POV character here for the most part. Her attraction to Muna does come across very obviously (to everyone but Muna because she is a fool!), but you don’t get those mutual ‘oh she’s attractive!’ moments like you did in the last book. I think it’s a bit of an odd choice here especially since we have 6 other POV shifts.
Past characters from SttC do show up, as we’ve already know about Henrietta and Prunella, but what I wasn’t expecting was more expansion on Rollo and Damerell and enjoyed what we got from them. This might be the only magician and familiar deal that won’t end in abject horror. Maybe quite the opposite really
Muna is a very sweet character and she contrasts very nicely with her sister, Sakti, who is much more abrasive comparatively, but their dedication and love for each other still comes across the page.
Muna and Henrietta’s romance is very cute and I did awww at a lot of their moments. While their romance has the same level of focus as Zacharias’ and Prunella’s from Sorcerer to the Crown, a bit of it is undercut due to Henrietta not really being a POV character here for the most part. Her attraction to Muna does come across very obviously (to everyone but Muna because she is a fool!), but you don’t get those mutual ‘oh she’s attractive!’ moments like you did in the last book. I think it’s a bit of an odd choice here especially since we have 6 other POV shifts.
Past characters from SttC do show up, as we’ve already know about Henrietta and Prunella, but what I wasn’t expecting was more expansion on Rollo and Damerell and enjoyed what we got from them. This might be the only magician and familiar deal that won’t end in abject horror. Maybe quite the opposite really