The Shadow Queen

DNF - PG 137

Why?

This is partially my own fault and just simple bad luck. I started reading this book one day before a bout of illness and considering I felt worse for about five days than I have for a couple of years, I couldn't get involved in this book. Not to say I wasn't reading, because, over the past ten days, I've been devouring fanfiction like crazy - but this book didn't catch my attention.

Honestly, it reminds me of the problems I had with the Lunar Chronicles - without the few redeeming qualities that series had. The story is told in a rotating POV: Lorelai the ‘oh, lookit me, I'm so tough and bada- ooh, he's cute' princess, Kol (aka: Kolvanismir Arsenyevnek and wth is up with that letter vomit name?) the ‘I was just a party boy before my family died and now I will make bad decisions to save my kingd- ooh, she's pretty' king and, finally, the absolutely unneeded pov of Irina the ‘evil queen that's just in it for the evilz' who reminds me EXACTLY of Levana.

What I read of the story bores me. I could finish it, because it's not horrible, awful, who writes this rubbish - but I literally just forced myself through another retelling that I didn't care for and have already been ‘reading' this book for eleven days. It also didn't help that they killed off the only character I actually liked in the whole story. In a very blerg death scene. Maybe that has something to do with it, too. The emotions feel somewhat (I hesitate to say) emotionless but I'm not connecting to anything in this story.