The Nine Realms Series | Book Reviews

it's not only nice to revisit them it's like seeing an old friend but they also have new roles to play in the story going forward characters come back together other characters are torn apart which does provide some good tension that'll hopefully be resolved come the final book in the series

so the deal with the first book a queen in hiding is that it involves a lot of setup as you probably would expect were being introduced to a very big worlds and also to a very large cast of characters and they come at you in a slow drip feed it's not overwhelming so you have time to become comfortable with a certain group of characters before you move on to a new set of characters

i found this last book to be a little on the disappointing side it has pacing issues basically the big scene that it starts off with i very much feel should have been included at the end of the third book

what i consider to be majorly upsetting is something like the poppy war one of the most brutal books i've ever read in my life

the whole plan that's being executed in the second book that i mentioned earlier is like wartime chess i am not even that into military strategy and i was riveted because it's just so smart