A review by iamcupid_
Bride of the Crimson Queen by Keri Moore, Keri Moore
2.0
A huge thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with a copy in exchange for an honest review.
With that said, this book was... not what I thought it would be. There were a lot of questionable scenes and choices in this book that made it hard to focus on the romance that I came to read this book for. I don't even see what happened between Kami and Arcadia as romance because it just didn't make sense. Plus, for a sapphic book, it felt like the men took majority of the screen time and they were all fleshed out more than all of the female characters combined. The plot was okay but the writing and execution of it really made me just not take any of what is happening seriously.
But my main issue, if we're just narrowing it down, is the whole virginity talk that happened in, like, half the book. It was unnecessary and disappointing as the main reason I read this was for the sapphic aspect, instead we get several whole speech about how Kami is a virgin and how she's a danger to the mission because of that. There was also several (non-graphic to mildly graphic) SA scenes here and just r*pe mentions that completely took me off-guard.
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This book is a 1 star but I made it 2 because it was bad in the "so bad it's good/entertaining" way. I will not be picking up the second part, though.
With that said, this book was... not what I thought it would be. There were a lot of questionable scenes and choices in this book that made it hard to focus on the romance that I came to read this book for. I don't even see what happened between Kami and Arcadia as romance because it just didn't make sense. Plus, for a sapphic book, it felt like the men took majority of the screen time and they were all fleshed out more than all of the female characters combined. The plot was okay but the writing and execution of it really made me just not take any of what is happening seriously.
But my main issue, if we're just narrowing it down, is the whole virginity talk that happened in, like, half the book. It was unnecessary and disappointing as the main reason I read this was for the sapphic aspect, instead we get several whole speech about how Kami is a virgin and how she's a danger to the mission because of that. There was also several (non-graphic to mildly graphic) SA scenes here and just r*pe mentions that completely took me off-guard.
<spoiler/>
This book is a 1 star but I made it 2 because it was bad in the "so bad it's good/entertaining" way. I will not be picking up the second part, though.