Review to come.

im finished and even tho this book annoyed me at the beginning and it was really hard getting into it i grew to love it at the end. but lets start from the beginning.

6 books all in all and idk how many years later and i have to say goodbye to sonea and rothen and dannly and lokrin and regin and osen and tayden and all the others and it really does hurt.
i have so many things to say and i really dont know where to start. cerys and lilas pov annoyed me all the time and this whole plot with skeeling was in my eyes total unnecessary like idk why she had to write it in there. maybe to have some action in the gilde(idk the english word) maybe to have some action aroung cery but i just found it just annoying. i always looked forward to lorkins and soneas pov and i really liked dannlys too.
im still sad over akkarins dead in book 3 and idk if i will ever get over this but with regin trudi wrote a really, really, REALLY great second lovestory for sonea. like i honestly NEVER EVER IN MY WHOLE LIFE belived that i would like regin or that i would ship him with sonea. if you would have told me that during the first 3 books i would have laughed at you and then i would have punched you because HONESTLY how could you say that after all the things he had done to sonea? but i have to admit that he really, really grew on me in the last 3 books and in the middle of the 6th book i started to ship them so freaking damn much and i was so happy when they finally got their happy ending at the end.
oh i also totally ADORE lorkin and tyvara but i already did that when she saved him in the 4th book and after the 5th book i had totally fallen for them.
i was sad when cery died even tho the plot line annoyed me but he cared for sonea so much in the first books and he always helped her and he was a really, really great friend. uhm and am i right that savara was the love affair of cery in the 3rd( ??) book???
oh, i almost forgot. i also hope that dannly and tayend will get back together because i think they are really great.

yeah that's it and now i have to say goodbye and im gonna miss them.

The Traitor Queen is a wonderful conclusion to the Traitor Spy series. Trudi Canavan ties together all the threads, not too neatly, and throws in a few surprises to boot.

As with all the books in both the Black Magician and Traitor Spy series' this was a thoroughly enjoyable read. I can't help feeling that there may be more books to come from Canavan set in this particular works because there were things I felt were either let open for a new series or say up ready for one too. Now she's just finished the Millennium Rule series, native maybe we will see her return to the Guild soon. If she does, I'll definitely be reading!

This is the perfect book to read on the toilet. It is entertaining but not very deep. The writing is very clunky but by now I was so invested in the characters that I just need to find out what happened to them. And I found out. And that was it.

It could have been so much more! There are many fantasy writers who discuss topics like slavery, colonization, inequality - and Canavan does a brave job but it's more of a very dry lecture than an actual story.

I still liked the first Black Magician trilogy better, but I cannot deny that I am in love with the author's style. She has a precise diction that speaks so clearly and concisely. I long to live in a world where such a high percentage of the population is logical and polite, at least among their own.

I greatly, greatly enjoyed this one. This was definitely a trilogy that got better as it went, starting at "good" and finishing at "where's the next one?!?". Canavan's work is never the most subtly deep of the fantasy I read but her society-building is second to none. This book was a great culmination of the relationships and conflicts set up in the first two books, with some nice character moments throughout. In particular, I love Canavan's willingness to explore the "no right answer" problems when societies clash, as well as questions of how much do good intentions and acts outweigh bad societies and acts. Canavan's use of good people on the bad side of things versus bad people on the good side never devolved to the strawman level and promoted the idea that people are often much more complicated than they seem.

All-in-all, a pleasantly more thought-provoking read than I expected. Recommended to general fantasy fans as well as fans of Canavan's previous work. Reading the Traitor Spy trilogy is definitely helped by reading her prior Black Magician trilogy.

The Traitor Queen gripped me straight away, I did have a couple of pages where I was slightly confused but that was more to do with it having been a very long time between me reading this book and the previous books. However it didn’t take long for it all to come back, and for me to remember what was happening, who was who and what I thought was going to happen. Throughout the book I felt so connected to all the characters, even those I hadn’t previously liked.

As this is the last part of a sequel trilogy there were a number of characters to follow. Obviously Black Magician Sonea, who was the main character in the previous trilogy still has an important role and is travelling to Sachaka for diplomatic purposes, accompanied by Lord Regin. Lord Regin and Sonea’s relationship had developed greatly over the six books and I have to say I liked where his story lead to, from being a horrible, manipulative, spoilt character to a dignified, understanding and very likeable character. There is also Lord Lorkin, Sonea son, who has returned to the Sachakan capital after living a number of months with the Traitors, the outlaw band of black magicians that live in the mountains of Sachaka. He has had to leave Tyvara, the woman he has fallen in love with and doesn’t know if he will see her again. He knows at some point he will have to choose between her and the traitors and his home in the allied lands. Also back home is Lilia, Anyi, Cery and Gol who are undertaking in a completed different story line that is equally dramatic and important to the development of allied lands. All the characters storylines climax in devastating amazing ways.

As this was the end of long series if you include both trilogies I have been able to see full character developments, share their losses, see how that has changed them. This has been a brilliant series and one I have enjoyed immensely. I will say I think over all I preferred the first trilogy more, but only because I felt it was more raw and emotional. This trilogy, using the same character base, I found that I connected most with the characters I already knew and never truly warmed to new additions. However it was nice to be able to see these characters I knew grow up and change. Would highly recommend, if you enjoyed other YA books like Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Tales of the Otori etc; I would imagine you would love the original series and this one.