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A review by heresthepencil
The Queen's Game by Carla de Guzman
2.0
2.5 ☆
i was rly excited abt this bc a royal arranged marriage?? set in a fictional countries next to the philippines??? sounded like a book of my dreams!!
but it was so dreadful.
the writing is just weak. there's way too much telling over showing, it's doing that thing i hate where a chapter is told from person a's pov & suddenly gives us inside on person b's feelings, the characters - maybe apart from the main two but not really - r more like one-dimensional caricatures than anything else.
and the fake dating i was looking forward to??? they started having sex just a few weeks into the thing & umm.... that's so not the point of this trope? where was the angst???
i was rly excited abt this bc a royal arranged marriage?? set in a fictional countries next to the philippines??? sounded like a book of my dreams!!
but it was so dreadful.
the writing is just weak. there's way too much telling over showing, it's doing that thing i hate where a chapter is told from person a's pov & suddenly gives us inside on person b's feelings, the characters - maybe apart from the main two but not really - r more like one-dimensional caricatures than anything else.
and the fake dating i was looking forward to??? they started having sex just a few weeks into the thing & umm.... that's so not the point of this trope? where was the angst???