A Queen This Fierce and Deadly
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Average rating4.7
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Ratings3
Average rating4.7
The price of love is loss.We all pay it eventually... In every life... Some moments are too painful to be endured. Some moments will break you if you let them. And yet I can't afford to let anything break me. Because we have one chance to win this war. One chance to create a better life for everyone across the four kingdoms. Even as our enemies ally with each other, and our own allies are forced to betray their kingdoms, their people...and themselves. And even as Regner plans something so cruel, so wholly evil, he's poised to douse the last remaining spark of hope in this world. Unless we kill him first.
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4 primary booksKingdom of Lies is a 4-book series with 4 primary works first released in 2023 with contributions by Stacia Stark.
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DNF @ 45%
I cannot believe I am DNFing a series half way through the final book, but here we are. I just can't bring myself to finish it.
This series had some positives but never really did enough to draw me in fully - a lot of themes and plot points were quite generic for the genre and the dialogue and characters were written too dramatic and obnoxious to enjoy it.
I did like some of the political aspects of the plot but by this point in the last book, it felt like nothing had changed but clearly with 50% left to go it was all going to tie up in a very probably predictable way. I just don't care.
The worst thing for me was the audiobook narrators - I know this shouldn't impact a book review, but I really feel like they made the dialogue (which was repetitive and cringey) even worse. It was so melodramatic and overdone, I have literal eye ache from all the eye rolling.
I loved this book. It tied up all loose ends and wrapped the whole story up nicely for me. It also left me wanting more, in a I-will-read-any-scrap-of-headcannon-Stark-offers-us-about-these-characters-going-forward kind of way, which I think is a pretty resounding endorsement of this book and series.
