A review by yvsmovingcastle
The Hedgewitch Queen by Lilith Saintcrow

2.0

Sigh. I really wanted to like this book. I hardly ever read romance but I enjoyed the Bannon and Clare series by Saintcrow and thought I'd give this one a shot. It started out well. Court intrigue, plucky heroine, dashing and bad ass Captain of the guard... but that all went away once they left the "palais" (yeah, bastardized French was pretty annoying), then it turned into this mega whine fest where Vianne spent the rest of the book oblivious to Tristan's affection for her, in a fever and lamenting the fact that the Magic Seal of Destiny wanted her to be Queen, which, okay, to be fair, that last one would be a hard pill to swallow but the whole book? Really? Maybe if it hadn't been in 1st person POV it wouldn't have been so annoying but at least in 1st person we should have seen more character development. She was just such a boring character by the end of the book, when she really could have been so interesting. It will be interesting to read the next one from Tristan's POV and see if it gets any better but I'm not holding my breath, based on the reviews I've seen.