A review by teereadsalot
Trial of the Sun Queen by Nisha J. Tuli

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced
I’m glad I stumbled upon this one on KU. From the dedication to the first page I was very inclined to keep reading. Lor, our protagonist is a chosen one of sorts—- angry, confused and reluctant. She has endured more than a decade at a prison that people usually perish quickly at. Years of starvation, mental, physical, psychological abuse and sexual coercion and assault have hardened the walls she keeps up to stay alive and protect the ones she loves. Little did she know time has been leading up to her being picked to complete in the trial to be the Sun queen.

Lor along with other tributes are made to go through several trials, reminiscent of the hunger games and the bachelor but deadly. All of this to earn their spot as Sun queen and Fae powers besides a King with secrets and motives. The rest of the tributes have had much time to prepare unlike Lor who was brought to the kingdom without her permission. She decides she’ll go through with the trials to stay alive and in an effort to save her family and get them out of the prison. The final tribute has never survived and it was agonizing to see if she would. 
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