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The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner

5 reviews

sassmistress's review

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Animal death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Torture, Alcohol, Confinement, Kidnapping, Death, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Slavery, Suicide, War, Murder, and Sexual harassment

mimeflower's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Emotional abuse, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Misogyny, War, Ableism, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

jenjerusha's review

adventurous dark funny sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Once reduced me to tears at one or two points, but I was a different, un-medicated, pre-COVID, woman then.

Still in my top ten and highly recommended for: nail-biting tension, A+ terrible choices, creepers of all kinds, awkward conversations, and at least one questionable beard. I would cheerfully read another thousand pages if they were on offer.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, Confinement, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and War

_mariellemcdonald's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Ableism, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, and Injury/Injury detail

roshans's review

dark emotional tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

 Okay so Queen of Attolia 

The writing still just isn’t doing it for me. I don’t know why but it just seem so.... impersonal? I’m finding it really hard to get invested in either the plot or the characters. Weirdly the character I care most about is Gen’s father who’s barely there. I’ve kind of just accepted the slow starts but I was kind of expecting more of an adventure story than a political/kind-of-love-story because you know, the first one was??? Idk

Definitely not feeling the romance at all, do people even ship this, does it get better?? I mean it has potential but at this point it sort of just feels like it came out of nowhere for both of them. I know the author loves twists and stuff but she really should have hinted at the whole crush thing. Also the whole spying on her for years is really creepy 

I do however like the Eddis and Gen friendship. Also the doctor and Gen friendship too.

Uhhh not much else to say about this book other than I’m still not sure how I feel about the series. I’ll read King of Attolia, but I have a feeling I’m going to end up dnfing this series it’s really just not doing it for me 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Confinement, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture