![]() ![]() Why even include the queens POVs? One POV doesn’t even show up until the last 100 pages, and I found it impossible to take an interest in them. That just feels counterintuitive to building character to me. ![]() Maybe the idea was to alert readers to the fact that deaths were coming to draw them in. So much of the buzz for that series comes from character deaths. Maybe this is influenced by A Game of Thrones. It’s not even a spoiler to say they died, it’s in the title! I wound up rushing through these chapters just to see their death scenes which felt…gross. I didn’t want to invest in them as characters because I assumed they were going to die. Knowing that the queens were (supposedly?) dead made the queens POV chapters feel moot. All told, this book uses 6 different POVs. Opposite Keralie’s chapters, you have POV chapters from all of the queens. As you learn in the synopsis, she quickly gets entangled in a murder mystery surrounding the 4 dead queens of Quadara. ![]()
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