Traitor Queen by Danielle L. Jensen

 

2.5 Stars

Lara is on the run from her father when she hears her husband has been taken prisoner.  She knows this is a trap to get her and she doesn’t care.  She will do anything to get her husband back and free their kingdom, even go to people who hate her for help.  She will need the people who think she’s a traitor to help get her into her father’s castle to rescue the King.

I very much wanted to like this book.  I loved the first book.  It was new and different.  For me this book was a lot of action and not a lot of substance.  What I mean by this is there are skirmish upon skirmish but nothing personal ends up being resolved.  Lara is still a traitor to the kingdom and she risked everything to save them all.  It didn’t matter she was still hated.  Aren does something that to me was unforgivable towards the end of the book and it is swept under the rug to give them a happy for now.  There are no long term solutions in the book for their relationship.  Lara had planned on going to her sisters but Aren doesn’t want that.  They will figure it out.  Your people hate her.  That will totally be resolved…right.  Danielle L Jensen did set up the series to include 2 more books with Lara’s brother.  The next one will coincide with this book and I hope it will show some better conclusion for Lara and Aren.

Audio Book

Lauren Fortgang did a pretty good job bring the characters to life in this book.  The one BIG HUGE negative for me was at the beginning of every freaking chapter they had music for about 10 seconds.  This pulled me out of the story and I hated it so much.  This contributed to the 2.5 stars.  It was hard to get into the story when every chapter was interrupted.  I vaguely remember them doing something similar with the first book but it was thunder sounds and not music. 

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