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A review by itskeerstin
The War of Two Queens by Jennifer L. Armentrout
2.0
I read this book entirely avoiding ALL spoilers on IG and BookTok. I saw that everyone was raging over spoilers and I refused to read any reviews.
Now that I’ve finished the book and read the reviews/complaints, I just… ugh.
What. Are. We. Doing. Miss. Ma’am. JLA I’m talking to you. What are we DOING here??? Besides wandering and being boring and wasting time?
This series should have been 3, maybe 4 books. I hated book 3 for the same reason as this one - it is obviously boring filler to be part of a money grab.
I read this entirely because I was ready for the joining. I guess a lot of people are mad that JLA is catering to fan service and something about soccer moms on Facebook? I don’t know anything about that. I loved book 1 and I loved the spice, and I think a threesome would have been AWESOME. Like a GOOD ONE. I was SO underwhelmed by the joining, I hated it.
ALSO. I was so bored reading the physical book that I joined Audible (*gag*) to buy the audio book because that was the only way I could get through more than 2 or 3 pages at a time in the physical book. I hadn’t listened to any previous books on audio, and I HATED that the narrator voiced Kieran like a super loving, tender, wonderful guy to Poppy. Maybe it was also the nature of their “friendship” at the beginning of this book, but every time Kieran’s lines were spoken, they were fond and sweet, even when they were supposed to be sassy/snappy. I loved Kieran in book 2, and how sassy he was and that he never seemed to really let Poppy off the hook.
I know (from reviews) that a lot of people are also really upset at how Poppy and Kieran are flirting and basically falling in love at the beginning of this book while Casteel is imprisoned and being tortured… I don’t love all that, but I more just hated that it didn’t feel authentic. When they were forehead to forehead and then cuddling together at night and whispering sweet nothings, it just felt like…. So untrue to the characters. I wanted them to be sassy reluctant friends forever, and this version of them felt so forced. Regardless of where Casteel was.
I hate where this series has gone. What an absolutely waste of time. FBAA and is such a great book on its own, and there is a TINY bit of me that was intrigued at the end where JLA is trying to tie in the characters we met in the prequel “A Shadow in the Ember”, but overall I am wildly disappointed in the lack of direction. I am so exhausted of Poppy having MORE and MORE and MORE and MORE and MORE powers. And then out of nowhere she’s got an almost twin sister?! A prophecy that we are only hearing in full for the first time in this book, that we learn is about the almost-twin-sister that we ALSO only meet for the first time in this book?! It’s SO forced.
Now that I’ve finished the book and read the reviews/complaints, I just… ugh.
What. Are. We. Doing. Miss. Ma’am. JLA I’m talking to you. What are we DOING here??? Besides wandering and being boring and wasting time?
This series should have been 3, maybe 4 books. I hated book 3 for the same reason as this one - it is obviously boring filler to be part of a money grab.
I read this entirely because I was ready for the joining. I guess a lot of people are mad that JLA is catering to fan service and something about soccer moms on Facebook? I don’t know anything about that. I loved book 1 and I loved the spice, and I think a threesome would have been AWESOME. Like a GOOD ONE. I was SO underwhelmed by the joining, I hated it.
ALSO. I was so bored reading the physical book that I joined Audible (*gag*) to buy the audio book because that was the only way I could get through more than 2 or 3 pages at a time in the physical book. I hadn’t listened to any previous books on audio, and I HATED that the narrator voiced Kieran like a super loving, tender, wonderful guy to Poppy. Maybe it was also the nature of their “friendship” at the beginning of this book, but every time Kieran’s lines were spoken, they were fond and sweet, even when they were supposed to be sassy/snappy. I loved Kieran in book 2, and how sassy he was and that he never seemed to really let Poppy off the hook.
I know (from reviews) that a lot of people are also really upset at how Poppy and Kieran are flirting and basically falling in love at the beginning of this book while Casteel is imprisoned and being tortured… I don’t love all that, but I more just hated that it didn’t feel authentic. When they were forehead to forehead and then cuddling together at night and whispering sweet nothings, it just felt like…. So untrue to the characters. I wanted them to be sassy reluctant friends forever, and this version of them felt so forced. Regardless of where Casteel was.
I hate where this series has gone. What an absolutely waste of time. FBAA and is such a great book on its own, and there is a TINY bit of me that was intrigued at the end where JLA is trying to tie in the characters we met in the prequel “A Shadow in the Ember”, but overall I am wildly disappointed in the lack of direction. I am so exhausted of Poppy having MORE and MORE and MORE and MORE and MORE powers. And then out of nowhere she’s got an almost twin sister?! A prophecy that we are only hearing in full for the first time in this book, that we learn is about the almost-twin-sister that we ALSO only meet for the first time in this book?! It’s SO forced.