A review by yabytheway
Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte

3.0

For the first half of this book, I realized it wasn't a perfect book. I had a few issues with it, but I still saw myself giving it a 4-star rating at the end. However, the last third of this book really changed my mind.

I really enjoyed the characters or Keralie and Varin, but they weren't super well-developed. Others, like Mackiel and the queens, even less. I liked the world, but it also needed to be developed and explored more. As much as I appreciate a fantasy standalone, the world-building could have used more than one book to really explore it all. Out of the four quadrants, we only saw two and we got very rushed descriptions of them all. I liked the concept, and the mystery of it all. But the solution to the mystery came out of NOWHERE and the explanation didn't make a lot of sense.

And the format was frustrating. Without getting into spoilers, the way it was written was confusing and the timeline was extremely muddled.

So I liked parts of it, but the ending really let me down.