Sunday, July 9, 2017

Book Review: The Orphan Queen

Rating: 4/5

Jodi Meadows does it again!  This fantastic story follows a princess trying to reclaim her kingdom, a spy infiltration mission in a palace, a magic system that involves monsters that are created from the use of magic, and of course -- adorable and compelling romance and action.

It is a Jodi Meadows novel after all ;)

I absolutely adored the Incarnate trilogy by Jodi, and was super excited to read this book, her follow up duology that features a main character with an amazing talent for forgery and a motivation to reclaim her kingdom and rescue her people.

This book would have been five stars for me (and I suspect it's sequel, which I immediately started reading because this one left off on a massive cliffhanger, will be a five star read), but similar to Jodi's first series, this book contained a lot of world building and the first half of it was a little bit slow paced.  Which I personally don't mind reading, but can take a bit away from the enjoyment of the overall experience.  But since the magic system is so complex, it takes a little while to build into it.  So I encourage readers, if you find the first half slow in pacing and have trouble getting into it -- KEEP READING because it gets so compelling and fast paced that you won't be able to put it down.

I absolutely loved this book, and am loving the sequel so far.  I am a huge fan of Jodi Meadows as an author and as a person, and her writing style and talent for building magic systems is incredible.  She always crafts really interesting and compelling worlds and her skill for world building is unrivaled.

~ Charlotte

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