3.5 🌟 Stars!!
“Sometimes failure is the beginning of success”
Keralie Corrington is a pickpocket who lives by the words "Get in quick, get out quicker." She works under the guidance of her mentor Mackiel, who runs a black market selling their bounty to buyers desperate for what they can’t get in their own quarter. For in the nation of Quadara, each quarter is strictly divided from the other. Four queens rule together, one from each region:
Toria: the intellectual quarter that values education and ambition
Ludia: the pleasure quarter that values celebration, passion, and entertainment
Archia: the agricultural quarter that values simplicity and nature
Eonia: the futurist quarter that values technology, stoicism and harmonious community
When Keralie steals a comm disk coming from Varin Bollt, then everything goes wrong. When she watches the comms - Keralie sees the murders of all four queens. Hoping that discovering the intended recipient will reveal the culprit – Keralie ends up teaming up with Varin, to complete his original job and see where it takes them.
I enjoyed this read. At first it was a lot of information and I felt a little overwhelmed- but after about the 20 percent mark, things started to pick up and it was action packed until the end. There was a little world building in the beginning but not really a whole lot. The plot was not at all what I was expecting.
Four Dead Queens is very unique - and is not like anything I have ever read when dealing with Kingdoms. There is a lot of use of tech and it had a bit of a Sci-Fi feel, which was what made it seem different. The characters were well rounded, but I just could not really connect to any of them. There is a M/F and F/F romance as well and sadly I could not get a grasp on either one. Something was missing... I thought the story line was good and the twists and turns were fun to read. I do recommend it for its uniqueness-and do believe its worth reading, just nothing really over the top and it was just an ok read for me.
“Sometimes failure is the beginning of success”
Keralie Corrington is a pickpocket who lives by the words "Get in quick, get out quicker." She works under the guidance of her mentor Mackiel, who runs a black market selling their bounty to buyers desperate for what they can’t get in their own quarter. For in the nation of Quadara, each quarter is strictly divided from the other. Four queens rule together, one from each region:
Toria: the intellectual quarter that values education and ambition
Ludia: the pleasure quarter that values celebration, passion, and entertainment
Archia: the agricultural quarter that values simplicity and nature
Eonia: the futurist quarter that values technology, stoicism and harmonious community
When Keralie steals a comm disk coming from Varin Bollt, then everything goes wrong. When she watches the comms - Keralie sees the murders of all four queens. Hoping that discovering the intended recipient will reveal the culprit – Keralie ends up teaming up with Varin, to complete his original job and see where it takes them.
I enjoyed this read. At first it was a lot of information and I felt a little overwhelmed- but after about the 20 percent mark, things started to pick up and it was action packed until the end. There was a little world building in the beginning but not really a whole lot. The plot was not at all what I was expecting.
Four Dead Queens is very unique - and is not like anything I have ever read when dealing with Kingdoms. There is a lot of use of tech and it had a bit of a Sci-Fi feel, which was what made it seem different. The characters were well rounded, but I just could not really connect to any of them. There is a M/F and F/F romance as well and sadly I could not get a grasp on either one. Something was missing... I thought the story line was good and the twists and turns were fun to read. I do recommend it for its uniqueness-and do believe its worth reading, just nothing really over the top and it was just an ok read for me.
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