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A review by justabean_reads
The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
Did not finish book. Stopped at 30%.
1.0
Read about 140 pages and decided that life was too short for this shit.
I don't believe in the world, and I don't like the characters. The author has basically said that if you take 21st century Britain and America, took away their technology, they'd turn into boilerplate 1980s fantasy novel "Middle Ages Europe," complete with 99% white people, women not getting to do anything, feudalism and the Catholic church as the only religion. Which, lol, where to start?
So the protagonist is a princess who was raised away from the court and basically knows nothing except history and botany, and shows up and starts judging everyone, from the street walkers to the courtiers ("The prostitutes need to get better jobs!" "Wait why is the palace spending this much on servants?" Pick one!). You can tall the bad guys because they're all ugly rapist slave owners. The only other women are a dead mother, an absent guardian, an evil queen, and the maid. The only black people are a sex slave and a minstrel/bandit.
Never has a book made me wish I were reading The Goblin Emperor, and I didn't even especially like that one either.
I don't believe in the world, and I don't like the characters. The author has basically said that if you take 21st century Britain and America, took away their technology, they'd turn into boilerplate 1980s fantasy novel "Middle Ages Europe," complete with 99% white people, women not getting to do anything, feudalism and the Catholic church as the only religion. Which, lol, where to start?
So the protagonist is a princess who was raised away from the court and basically knows nothing except history and botany, and shows up and starts judging everyone, from the street walkers to the courtiers ("The prostitutes need to get better jobs!" "Wait why is the palace spending this much on servants?" Pick one!). You can tall the bad guys because they're all ugly rapist slave owners. The only other women are a dead mother, an absent guardian, an evil queen, and the maid. The only black people are a sex slave and a minstrel/bandit.
Never has a book made me wish I were reading The Goblin Emperor, and I didn't even especially like that one either.