A review by athenaevarinya
The Queen's Bargain by Anne Bishop

2.0

I've never finished a Bishop book before and felt this disappointed. I feel like Surreal's character was changed to allow for a specific plot point to occur and that she was used in this book and "The High Lord's Daughter" story simply to give Daemon a daughter to tie him to the living realms. Surreal was seriously wronged and deserved better.

I also felt like the author created the social "norm" of sex before marriage as frowned upon as something to push a plot point since in the previous books, plenty of characters had sex before marriage or sex without marriage or a handfasting and nobody made a fuss over it.

I think the best thing about the story was the Scelties' parts in it.