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. 

Book 2 Bridge Kingdom

Bridge Kingdom by Danielle L Jensen

4 Stars

Princess Lara and her sisters have been raised to hate the neighboring kingdom for letting their citizens starve.  One of them will marry the Bridge Kingdom’s King and find away for an infiltration to open the bridge and get the goods.  When Lara hears her father talking about killing the sisters who are not selected to go to the neighboring kingdom she decides to take action.  She poisons them to make them look like they have died leaving just her to marry the king.  After she marries King Aren she finds out that things are not as they seem.  Will Lara and Aren find their way to loving each other and keeping the people safe.

I really liked this book.  It was different from other books I’ve read recently.  It was also a different type of book from the author.  I’ve read her YA series and loved them so I had high hopes for this one and it was very successful.  Pacing was good throughout the book.  It does end in a cliffhanger to go into the next book which frustrated me.

Book 1 The Bridge Kingdom