A review by hehkhatea
Queen of the Conquered by Kacen Callender

challenging dark tense slow-paced

2.0

My biggest problem with Callender as an author is that they have such great ideas for their books but for some reason can never deliver on them. I'm not sure if the editors they have from their different projects are just not challenging them enough or are just not helpful but over the many books by them i've read only one of them has been super good.
The fact that this book is in first person totally defeats the purpose of the twist at the end, and honestly the twist was not that shocking. It was clear from the get go that all of Sigourney's slaves didn't like her and were planning against her, which I thought it was INCREDULOUS that she never planned to free them as part of her plan to get revenge for her family! No ethical aristocracy and all that!
Also that audiobook narrator was awful! I'm happy that it was someone with a Caribbean accent but there was no feeling behind the books being spoken. Everything was done in a monotone. Extremely disappointing.