Queen of the Conquered

I was only able to finish half of this book before I was too annoyed to keep reading. I was so excited with this book and was really let down. Girl on the path of cold blooded revenge who must infiltrate the high society that enslaves her people and killed her family, awesome! In actuality a girl who whines a lot about not being loved or liked by that same society or by the people that SHE is keeping enslaved. I absolutely get her doing awful things because she is pretending to be a normal slave master and can't show empathy to the slaves that she is descended from or the slave masters will be suspicious but she keeps her people enslaved and kills some of them and then when they hate her she is all sad and angry. What did she expect? show more They don't know you are going to kill all the Masters! They just know you just had this little girl killed and forcing this one guard into your bed! " What have I done for this man-for any of the slaves of Hans Lollik- to hate me the way they do?""I've sacrificed myself for this...and rather than meeting me with thanks and love, I'm met with such hatred" SERIOUSLY? Unless I missed something major her whole motivation behind this plot is to kill the Masters for killing her family, she is not doing it because slavery is wrong and she feels like she can do something about it and tear it down from the inside. She just wants revenge, which I can definitely get behind, but don't be constantly whining, all 'woe-is-me' when you chose this path and you are doing despicable things. show less

Great set-up and very intriguing protagonist (or antagonist, depending on your perspective). The expository style and endless info-dumping eventually got too tedious. I also kept thinking I might like the whole thing more if it was in 3rd POV rather than 1st. I might go back and read the ending at some point since many reviews say it's the best part of the book but who knows. This title might be just right for some readers but the writing/narrative style just made it too easy to put down for me.

So I really enjoyed this story. I love stories that revolve around a group of people's fight for freedom.

This particular one was quite enjoyable with all of its political mess and powers and of course all its twists and turns.

I really liked this story over all, but I knocked a couple of stars off for a few reasons:

1) Repetitive details/story snippets. We repeatedly heard about the main character's family being dead and how everyone loved her mother, but REALLY hates her.

2) There were multiple story elements that were introduced, but then were either never mentioned again or happened way too quickly. I have hope that a sequel could fix this though.

Great Caribbean fantasy.

Review coming in a vlog soon.